[Foundation-l] Development tasks and project needs (was: Positive discrimination related to smaller communities and projects)

[James D. Forrester]

On Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:15 AM, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com]>
wrote:

> --- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:

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> > However, I have offered in the past to act as a development task
> > coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation, and that offer still
> > stands.
> 
> For what it is worth you have my support. :)

Mine, too, very much so, though that's no doubt worth much less. ;-)

> > Such a task coordinator would prioritize tasks, maintain contacts to
> > potentially interested sponsors, and make recommendations on
> > spending a certain part of our internal budget on development
> > tasks. He would write the basic specifications, try to locate
> > interested developers (both by inviting them directly, and by
> > having public calls for tenders), watch over the implementation,
> > and decide whether it meets the specs (together with the Board and
> > the MediaWiki Release Manager, Brion Vibber). 
> 
> Sounds more like a Chief Technical Officer to me.

Chief Software Co-ordinator, perhaps? CTO suggests a hardware role as well
(unless that was meant to have been included in the suggested scope, but I
don't think it is).

> If we can't pay you to do this, then you might as well have a nice
> title to put on your resume.

Agreed. :-)

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Yours,
-- 
James D. Forrester -- Wikimedia: [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]

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