[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Hackathon 2024: Register and Apply for Scholarships Now!
Hello, I think it is great that there will be no fee to attend at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024. I prefer virtual events or visiting a decentralized event nearby if an onsite attendence likely requires long distance travelling. At the moment I dont like to use a plane to travel to a place. From my point of view the enviromental impact of the Wikimedia Hackathon is very high. As I come from Germany I have the regular opportunity to meet other people who are participating in the Wikimedia projects and so this has an influence on my point of view. There are other chances to meet people who are involved in the Wikimedia projects. What do you think about the enviromental impact of the Wikimedia Hackathon. As you have announced it already I have no problem if the next Wikimedia Hackathon happens as an onsite event. For further editions of the Wikimedia Hackathon I hope that there will be a more decentralized version of it that helps to avoid long distance travelling where it seems to be possible. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/QN5J4C6STD2OQVVFJTEOT7Y2FKA2BRWY/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Inc. design staff
The question of you is important. The Wikimedia Foundation hired a lot of people in the last years and I do not see so big change in the output. It is a question that is from my point of view relevant for different areas at the Wikimedia Foundation. I dont support a too big focus on efficiency that needs a lot of metrics to measure and to create these metrics needs then a lot of staff. What is needed and what not is not easy to measure. With increasing available resources the staff will probably increase. This is an usual behaviour of humans that they try to use resources if available and do not only allocate them for the future or say no and try to reduce the needed resources if not neccessary. From my point of view the Wikimedia Foundation should reduce the Fundraising acitivities and try to reduce in the next years the yearly expenses or pay at least attention that they do not increase further. The salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are currently from my point of view in relation to Germany based NGOs high. I think interesting documents to get an overview about the work of the Wikimedia Foundation are the quaterly tuning sessions. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_tuning_sessions,_FY2021-22 Hogü-456 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/LL7NEZZNI7QBLBXDCKFFBVYHBJCDRMXX/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
