On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Pinging Quim in case he can give us some demographics of Wikimedia's
volunteer tech pool and whether he thinks it might be possible to find an
engineering executive in that pool.
I'm not sure which demographics we should look
Anders, I don't think I'm underestimating the competence we have in this
community. I'm wondering which demographics we should look at in order to
detect potential candidates for engineering executives (replying to Pine's
ping). I'm also suggesting that improving the communication of our open
Another thought: perhaps more investment could be made in providing career
development support for our volunteers of all kinds. It's relatively common
in the United States for organizations with lots of volunteers to put some
investment explicitly into helping the volunteers develop skills snd
Online flashcards would be useful for demonstrating the idea to those not
familiar with some aspect of them. Directing users to the sources of
software for their platforms would be in the interests of both users
(better individualization, no need for connectivity) and MW (less server
load).
The
Quim Gil skrev den 2015-07-03 14:27:
I think that if there would be a good candidate for a VP of
Engineering in our community, they wouldn't have been unnoticed (but I
might be wrong).
Please do not underestimate the competence existing in the community.
For myself I have seven years of
Another thought: perhaps more investment could be made in providing career
development support for our volunteers of all kinds. It's relatively common
in the United States for organizations with lots of volunteers to put some
investment explicitly into helping the volunteers develop skills snd
Hi Quim,
I was digressing a little from the original subject of this thread when I
talked about WMF career development support for volunteers, but here are a
few suggestions:
1. Prioritize work on the open badges system.
2. Make information about WMF contract positions more public. Currently,
Hi Lila,
Your email references the mission throughout, which is published as a
mission statement[1] and has been stable in wording since 2007. Could
you please use the wording from the mission statement, rather than
paraphrasing as our mission of ubiquitous shared knowledge?
I know this will be
