[Wikimedia-l] About the concentration of resources in SF (it was: "Communication plans for community engagement"

[phoebe ayers]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Craig Franklin
> <cfranklin at halonetwork.net> wrote:
> > For the benefit of chapters that are interested in this space, can you
> > offer any examples of projects that are of an appropriate size and type
> for
> > a chapter to take on?
>
> It's a great question, Craig. One idea that I think is worth kicking
> around is how we can partner together in increasing diversity in our
> developer, design & product community while working on important
> problems.
>

On this topic, one thing that was brought up in the Board elections
questions & answers was the (ongoing) need to triage feature requests by
the community, including especially requests for features from experienced
& admin users, and feature requests from the sister projects.

One of the ideas in the candidate answers was to focus more on building a
central place where feature requests (and cool existing tools) can be
shared between language editions and projects, and where feature ideas
could get refined outside of bugzilla & the lists; another idea was to
build a kind of technical committee to help collect and refine these ideas.
Then of course there is the actual technical work of addressing these
requests.

I don't know if working on this would fit in with what any of the chapters
are doing, but it does seem like a social/technical/community area that
could use some energy.

best,
-- phoebe


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