Re: [Wikimedia-l] About the concentration of resources in SF (itwas: Communication plans for community engagement
Would be nice to see feasibility checks before outsourcing some tasks to chapters to make sure they are prepared for the task. Cheers, Balazs 2013/8/26 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com Hi Romaine, In the absence of any practical description of what an office on each populated continent would do, or what concrete organizational role it would fulfill (other than bringing communities together), it seems unlikely that the WMF is going to immediately reverse its relatively recent decision to follow a strategy directly contrary to what you propose. The model that Quim outlines makes much more sense; the work of the movement can be dispersed more naturally when stakeholders take on projects and initiatives that the WMF can support with grant funding. These projects have evidently had far and away more success than either general funding of WMF affiliates or expanding the WMF itself into far-away lands. ~Nate ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] About the concentration of resources in SF (itwas: Communication plans for community engagement
On 08/27/2013 08:37 AM, Balázs Viczián wrote: Would be nice to see feasibility checks before outsourcing some tasks to chapters to make sure they are prepared for the task. Sure, these checks are part of the FDC / IEG / any decent grant process. Business as usual. Also important: Tech projects aiming to merge code in an existing project also need to be in sync with the maintainers and the community. This is why we have a separation between Featured project ideas (ready to be taken) and Raw projects (not yet filtered) at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects Even the featured project ideas must get a reality check as soon as someone steps in at a given time for a specific program. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] About the concentration of resources in SF (itwas: Communication plans for community engagement
Hi, +1 to this question. If we learn that there are items where we are invited to the MediaWiki and some estimates how many e.g. developerdays we would need to finance so we know it is possible. However, we should mind that most of the chapters are not really development houses and we are lacking experience in this area. michał. 28 lipca 2013 5:41 Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net napisał(a): Hi Erik (and whomever from WMDE), 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? I think that most chapters* would be willing to help out in the software development space if we got a bit of direction on how we could be the most useful. Cheers, Craig Franklin * Keeping in mind that my chapter probably wouldn't have the capacity to start anything in this space for at least another twelve months. On 27 July 2013 09:57, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:39 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: If WMF is serious about letting development activities grow in other countries this might be taken into account in FDCs allocation policy. For my part, I'm happy to offer feedback to the FDC on plans related to the development of engineering capacity in FDC-funded organizations. I'm sure Wikimedia Germany, too, would be happy to share its experiences growing the Wikidata development team. I'd love to find ways to bootstrap more engineering capacity across the movement, as so many of our shared challenges have a software engineering component. If any folks on-list want to touch base on these questions at Wikimania, drop me a note. :) Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
