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

[Martin Pascal]

Dear all,

If there is a summer of code, could you contact us , because we have just 
making this offline reader :

http://download.kiwix.org ==> it will be available for all the project of 
the WMF, when all the zenos files are creating.

http://www.wikiwix.com/ ==> it s our search engine available

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Cordialement
Martin Pascal
tel : 02 32 40 23 69, fax : 02 32 61 45 26
gsm : 06 13 89 77 32
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Whitworth" <wknight8111 at gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] "wiki (usability) summer" - like google summerof 
code?


> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> 
> wrote:
>> GSoC has never produced anything useful for us, so I don't know why you
>> think it would be a good model.
>
> But it has produced useful results for a number of other open source
> software communities, so I don't think it's prudent to kick the idea
> out the window just yet. What's needed to make a system like GSoC work
> is to have a large team of prospective mentors, effort to integrate
> the volunteers into the community, etc. I've seen other groups who
> have been very successful from this program, adding a large portion of
> students as active committers after the program is over. If MediaWiki
> hasn't been as successful, it might be worthwhile figuring out what is
> being done differently from those projects which are more successful.
>
>> The idea of a collection of remote workers paid by the line of code might
>> sound nice to an online community member, but I'm beginning to think that
>> it's risky at best. A software development team working in an office
>> together might be old-school, but at least the management practices are
>> established, with good results commonly produced.
>
> I've heard the idea of code bounties discussed before, maybe that's a
> model that's worth reconsidering. Take your existing development staff
> and ancillary contributors and offer firm cash rewards for specific
> features. Ideally new contributors will join the effort in pursuit of
> these rewards. Again, something to consider.
>
> --Andrew Whitwoth
>
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