[Labs-l] Fwd: [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimedia Tool Developers Group

[Quim Gil]

Hi!

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 1:31 AM, Bryan Davis <bd808 at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 6:43 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:41 PM
> > Subject: [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimedia Tool Developers Group
> >
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> > the Wikimedia Tool Developers Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.  The
> > group is international cooperative of developers who create
> freely-licensed
> > tools for improving the Wikimedia projects.
> >
> > Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> > (...snip...)
> > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Tool_Developers_Group
>
> It's really awesome for me personally to see communities like this
> form on their own. I'd like to extend an invitation to the new group
> to collaborate with the Cloud Services team [2] and the Tool Labs
> standards committee [3] in their program work. Efforts to make it
> easier for people to develop, maintain, and publicize technical
> contributions to the Wikimedia movement are important work for our
> collective future.


Indeed, I was very happy to see this new group formed as well. Let me
extend the invitation to collaborate with the Onboarding New Developers
program [4] (work in progress), where we are looking for featured projects
[5] (also WIP) willing to get help from newcomers. Tools are clearly a good
entry point for developers approaching Wikimedia with a fresh mind and new
ideas. Current tool developers could also benefit more from our developer
support and activities. Having a representative group might definitely
help. Let's talk!


> [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Cloud_Services_team
> [3]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Tool_
> Labs_standards_committee


[4]:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Onboarding_New_Developers
[5]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Featured_Projects


>
> Bryan
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> Bryan Davis              Wikimedia Foundation    <bd808 at wikimedia.org>
> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services          Boise, ID USA
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Quim Gil
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