[Foundation-l] "wiki (usability) summer" - like google summer of code?

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I forgot to indicate that the relative costs of mentoring a GSoC person are
not high. I would even argue that it would benefit the WMF and MediaWiki
when we pay this from within the regular budget.

Growing our community should in my opinion be a key goal.
Thanks,
      GerardM

2008/12/10 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>

> Hoi,
> When a Google Summer of Code project is about aspects of usability, then we
> have on the one hand the cost of mentoring and on the other hand the benefit
> of three months of work done by typically really dedicated people. We have
> seen that people who started in a SoC program continued to be part of our
> community after their project.
>
> In my understanding the Stanton grant intends to improve our usability.
> Some people say that we "wiki people" make unusual decisions, have non
> traditionals approaches. I would applaud it when the Stanton grant allows us
> to do more then is traditional and consequently achieve more then is
> traditional.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
>
> 2008/12/10 Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de>
>
> THURNER rupert wrote:
>> > hi,
>> >
>> > on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2008 there was a
>> > statement that such efforts are restricted by "mentoring-manpower".
>> >
>> > now that there are real people and a budget dedicated to improve
>> > usability, could it make sense to leverage that effort by bounties
>> > given in a way comparable to google sumer of code?
>> >
>> > imo this might also used to attract additional donations from
>> > individuals, as it is simple paraphrasable. and usability is a real
>> > pain to a lot of people.
>> >
>> > kr, rupert.
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>> If you are inferring the Stanton grant, as far as I know not. That grant
>> is very closely defined and we cannot use it for other issues.
>>
>> Ting
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