Yesterday we were so busy with the beginning of GSoC and FOSS OPW
round 8 that I didn't have time to post about the end of OPW round 7:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_7
Quite silently, the six teams participating in this round have set a
new benchmark for future mentoring programs. All of them have
delivered functional features that are as published / merged /
deployed as it is advisable in a complex community project like ours.
All of them had slight changes of plans, require more testing and
fine-tuning... but this is the usual situation of any free software
project four months after its inception.
Check the results:
Anu's upload wizard with OSM support
http://uploadwizard-osm.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard
Diwanshi's Wikipedia API courses in Codecademy
http://www.codecademy.com/courses/web-beginner-en-vj9nh/0/1
http://www.codecademy.com/courses/web-beginner-en-yd3lp/0/1
Brena's prototype of mediawiki.org's redesigned homepage
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_redesign/Preview
Be's clean up of Parsoid's round-trip testing UI is merged
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/owner:bebirchall%2540gmail.com,n,z
Maria's clean up of Parsoid's tracing/debugging/logging is merged
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/owner:maria.pacana%2540gmail.com,n,z
Niharika's compact language links is part of this week's deploymeent
train as Beta feature
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design/Interlang…
Not coincidentally, these interns have also excelled in regular
reporting, combining in most cases weekly reports with sporadic blog
posts. Check the table at the OPW wiki page.
Of course a fair part of the merit goes to the mentors, most of them
first-timers. We still must wrap up the projects and recollect the new
lessons learned.
One area where we still want to improve is in the continuity of these
contributors, now as regular volunteers. For this, the role of the
mentors and other experienced contributors is key. Please approach the
not-interns-anymore, and propose them new tasks or new areas to
contribute to. In addition to this, Sumana has been discussed with
each of them possible opportunities within Wikimedia.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THESE SIX TEAMS! Thank you for the work you have
done, and we hope to see you around, jumping on new tasks.
As always, ideas and criticism are welcome. How can we do better in
the next round of mentoring programs, starting now?
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil