Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Collaborating with SF Bay tech-friendly groups

[Luca de Alfaro]

I teach CS at UCSC, so we could perhaps do something in that context?
Students are also often looking for projects...
I think it would be faster/easier to talk about it via voice, to explore
together types of ideas that could work.  We could talk sometime next week?

Luca


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Quim Gil  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Do you know a team or an organization in the Bay Area that would like to
> collaborate with Wikimedia in a joint tech activity? Say a 3 hour workshop
> in our / their location.
>
> We want to engage with established tech friendly groups to work together
> in joint activities like e.g. testing this new feature, write automated
> tests for that old feature, improve this tutorial...
>
> Most of these activities can be also performed by non-developers and
> actually by pure tech-curious novices. Think of Wikipedia meetups, college
> students of any kind, tech clubs, social or cultural organizations...
>
> I'm personally motivated in exploring beyond the usual and very busy
> suspects (e.g. tech meetups, although we want to tap those too). For
> instance, what about those having a harder time because of their abilities,
> age, gender, language, or cultural, ethnic, or economic background.
>
> It's just a lot easier for us to find the critical mass and organize a
> successful activity when we can start from a motivated group, instead of
> having to recruit volunteers one by one. And a first contact with a group
> is a lot easier when it comes with a first introduction from someone they
> know.
>
> Thank you!
>
> --
> Quim Gil
> Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgil
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[Wikimedia-SF] Collaborating with SF Bay tech-friendly groups

[Quim Gil]

Hi,

Do you know a team or an organization in the Bay Area that would like to 
collaborate with Wikimedia in a joint tech activity? Say a 3 hour 
workshop in our / their location.


We want to engage with established tech friendly groups to work together 
in joint activities like e.g. testing this new feature, write automated 
tests for that old feature, improve this tutorial...


Most of these activities can be also performed by non-developers and 
actually by pure tech-curious novices. Think of Wikipedia meetups, 
college students of any kind, tech clubs, social or cultural 
organizations...


I'm personally motivated in exploring beyond the usual and very busy 
suspects (e.g. tech meetups, although we want to tap those too). For 
instance, what about those having a harder time because of their 
abilities, age, gender, language, or cultural, ethnic, or economic 
background.


It's just a lot easier for us to find the critical mass and organize a 
successful activity when we can start from a motivated group, instead of 
having to recruit volunteers one by one. And a first contact with a 
group is a lot easier when it comes with a first introduction from 
someone they know.


Thank you!

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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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