On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:30 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Jon Robson wrote:
Thoughts?
Adding easter eggs sounds like a fairly strange recruitment tactic, but I
don't see any harm in trying it out and seeing what happens. It's not
totally clear to me what problem we're trying to solve here (if any). It's
also not completely clear to me whether you want to recruit for the
Wikimedia Foundation specifically or for the Wikimedia movement. Depending
on the specifics, certain solutions might be more or less appropriate.
I think the best thing for recruiting for MediaWiki (the open source
project) is the extraction portion of the Librarization
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Library_infrastructure_for_MediaWiki>
project. Breaking MediaWiki into parts will get it used in more places and
the more people that rely on it the more people will contribute to it.
Making reusable PHP libraries as opposed to services is doubly good at
getting contributions because the people that will be integrating with them
will also be PHP developers so they'll be reasonably quickly able to
contribute.
My expertise doesn't really extend beyond the open source project so I
won't guess at ways to recruit for the movement or the foundation.
Nik