Hi Gerard, thanks a lot for chiming in!
There are all kinds of technical fixes that helped the people
involved in GLAM content no end. There are many more opportunities.
Do you have an example of these tech fixes that helped the GLAM people ?
I'm very curious about it, as a way to inform
Hi Al, Bawolff, Lydia, Marcin, and thanks for your feedbacks and exchanges!
I was away for a few days, so I'll try to summarize what's have been said
and what it makes me think about tech outreach at wikipedia.
Bawolff said:
it just seems that often outreach focuses on people outside the
The goal would be to lure experienced TDD devs in by focusing the event on
testing, make them work with the community during a weekend on the code
base, existing test, writing tests, etc. and mentor others along the
way. (I'm still convinced that giving it a cool, flashy, name doesn't hurt
Hoi,
One area where technology combined with content hit the road is in the GLAM
projects. There are all kinds of technical fixes that helped the people
involved in GLAM content no end. There are many more opportunities.
What is relevant in this thread is that there have been technical meets
Julien Dorra juliendo...@juliendorra.com wrote:
«Testing Wikipedia» could be a nice catchy name for a series for events in
various cities around TDD, with experienced dev mentoring less experienced
community members, etc. Even if the experts come and go, everybody learn,
some test and
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Julien Dorra
juliendo...@juliendorra.com wrote:
[snip]
* Question for you all: do you have an example of this consumer mode
behavior on the software part of Wikimedia? How have you dealt with it in
the past?
* Bawolff a question just for you, could you
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:43 PM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote:
Well it just seems that often outreach focuses on people outside the
Wikimedia community, well ignoring people already in the Wikimedia
community. In my opinions we're much more likely to get someone who
truley cares about
Hi all,
I'm Julien Dorra, I build creative communities using events. ex:
http://museomix.com, http://artgameweekend.com, http://dorkbotparis.org,
http://codinggouter.org.
After a short discussion with Adrienne Alix from Wikimedia France, I took
my chances and applied for the new role of
«Testing Wikipedia» could be a nice catchy name for a series for events in
various cities around TDD, with experienced dev mentoring less experienced
community members, etc. Even if the experts come and go, everybody learn,
some test and process get done, and the community grow and learn.
Thanks Bawolff for your feedback! It's great, as it helps me think even
more about it!
I gather from what you said above that your specialty is in-person
events,
More the combination of in-person events with unfocused (unaware of
themselves) existing web communities.
OrsayCommons for example
Wow, thanks Chris for this great feedback!
In May we collaborated with the Weekend Testers (Americas)[1]
I love the name! They also seem to have an interesting history in term of
organic community growth.
In June we collaborated online with Openhatch.org
participants from the previous test
Julian,Welcome. Here are my ideas:
1. Tag along - hold an event before or after a larger event, such as
OSCON. This event might even be a charity event. Semi-example:
http://railsconf.austinonrails.org/ignite
2. Create videos of ways to contribute.
3. Create a link/list of small
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