I may be in the minority - but I like the idea of adding some structure to the
naming and logos. It may not matter to those of us already involved, but in
trying to engage new people - having three events with very similar purpose but
three different names is confusing and sometimes makes us
Hi, back in November Erik and Sumana explained the intention of the WMF
to get less involved in the direct organization of developer events.
Instead, the WMF will empower and help community groups taking the lead
organizing developer activities.
On 01/23/2013 12:14 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
Hi, back in November Erik and Sumana explained the intention of the WMF
to get less involved in the direct organization of developer events.
Instead, the WMF will empower and help community groups taking the lead
organizing developer activities.
Quim,
Responses inline.
- We seem to have an erratic use of Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki,
[choose your logo] and [nothing] for naming these events. For instance, see
the web pages of San Francisco Hackathon Berlin Hackathon or Amsterdam
Hackathon and try to find the full name written down.
+1 for not forcing a standard on. (Talking from the perspective of
organizing smaller events)
If we standardize on 'Hackathon', we'll have people coming in and asking us
'how to crack fb?'. If we call it 'Workshop', we'll have people coming in
asking for certificates (or wondering how much to pay
(It would be good to have the opinion of the
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013 organizers here)
On 01/23/2013 09:21 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
I am actually fine with inconsistency here.
I think you mean you are fine with flexibility. Me too. :)
I don't think we
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:
MediaWiki Hackathon City
As a team that doesn't exclusively work within MediaWiki what would you
suggest for naming if someone wanted to run a hackathon on our mobile apps?
Our mobile apps are fully decoupled from mw and only
Tomasz has a good point. Language tools and apps don't use Mediawiki
exclusively either.
This is one of the reasons we used Wikipedia Engineering instead of
Mediawiki for our Bangalore DevCamp naming.
-Alolita
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed,
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Looking at e.g. the Mozilla and Ubuntu communities you can see that they
have defaults (MozCamps, Firefox OS App Days, Ubuntu Hours, UDS, LoCo
meetings... and flexibility for alternatives as well.
Another relevant example
If an event is specific to a piece of software then by all means let's
call it after such piece of software e.g.
Wikipedia Mobile Hackathon
(or DevCamp, if we decide that is a better default than Hackathon)
On 01/23/2013 10:46 AM, Alolita Sharma wrote:
Tomasz has a good point. Language
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:
[snip]
But there is another point here, which is how narrowed / inclusive are we
with the MediaWiki word. You can see it as the name of a CMS. You can see
it as a name of a wider community. Looking at the content at
On 01/23/2013 03:07 PM, bawolff wrote:
To be honest making naming requirements sounds like a bikeshed
discussion.
I'm sorry it has been perceived by some as such. I started the
discussion after the real need this morning of suggesting a name to a
local promoter willing to organize an event.
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