Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017: Registration Open

[Rachel Farrand]

Hi everyone,
Thank you for your questions so far! :)

Bináris:
We can commit to deciding and approving a first round of scholarships
within 1 week of closing scholarship registration.
Scholarship registration closes: October 23
We will approve and announce by: October 31

If there is anybody that has a special time-constraint related circumstance
please email q...@wikimedia.org and myself and we will see what we can do
to accommodate.


Ryan:
At the summit this year we would like to know that everybody attending will
be engaged and will know why they are attending. Regarding WMF staff, we
will be accepting all applicants who have something reasonable written in
response to the question you reference. We are assuming that most traveling
WMF staff who are willing to be away from home for an additional 3 days and
have their managers approval and funding to attend have already thought
about and discussed their plan for this event when deciding to allocate the
funds and work time, so hopefully it is not a burden to verbalize them to
us. Possibly some of the local-to-SF staff have not had had this discussion
yet, but they have some additional time to think about why they would like
to attend before they apply. If we turn down any WMF staff registrations we
will explain why we have done so, and as long as there is still space they
can re-apply. Alternately, any WMF staff are welcome to skip the first two
days of the Developer Summit and apply only to attend the unscheduled /
hacking day. It will take quite an awful response to have an
unscheduled-day only registration rejected.


C. Scott:
Yes, currently the form is asking for session proposals when they cannot
yet be proposed.
We were hoping to open registration and the call for participation at the
same time, weeks ago. This hasn't been possible, as the discussion about
main topics hasn't been resolve. The program committee is working to have
this part solved by next week but we could not delay opening registration
any longer and make issues like Bináris highlights harder on those
travelers requiring visas.

I hope these answers help! Thank you all very much for your feedback and
patience!

Rachel

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:35 AM, C. Scott Ananian 
wrote:

> ...further, I don't think there's a process (yet) for making proposals for
> the dev summit, so I don't think it's possible to answer this question at
> this time.
>
> I just assumed that whoever will be evaluating these knows that, and filled
> in "not yet!" under "Have you submitted a proposal for an activity at the
> Wikimedia Developer Summit?".
>
> Similarly for, "Are there any topics that you would like to see at this
> year's event?", there is only an extremely rough draft of these topics at
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Topic_ideas
> -- and I think I proposed about half of these.  So I self-cited, but it's
> not clear how useful this question will be in general to other attendees at
> this point.
>   --scott
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Ryan Kaldari 
> wrote:
>
> > I'm a little confused. Under the "WMF Staff Questions" section of the
> > registration it's asking "Why should you be sponsored by WMF to attend
> the
> > Wikimedia Developer Summit?" and it says that "We will only be approving
> > WMF staff to attend this event who are planning to actively engage...",
> > etc. implying that approval to attend the developer summit is contingent
> on
> > their answer to this question. However, budget owners were already asked
> to
> > fill out flight and lodging approvals for all of their direct reports
> (for
> > both the All Staff and Dev Summit). Is there a second round of vetting
> that
> > will happen at some point?
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 3:37 AM, Bináris  wrote:
> >
> > > 2016-09-23 12:09 GMT+02:00 Rachel Farrand :
> > >
> > > > The deadline to request travel sponsorship is Monday October 24th.
> > > >
> > >
> > > And when will the requests be ansered?
> > >
> > > I am just thinking of travelling (still sot sure how useful it is for
> me
> > > at  the moment and if I can leave my work), but in case of applying I
> > would
> > > have a trouble.
> > >
> > > Last year I visited Iran as a tourist, and since then I have been a
> > > potential terrorist according to the government of the United States of
> > > America. That means I have to apply for a visa 3 months prior to
> > travelling
> > > (not like other Hungarians who did not visit Iran, and may travel
> easily
> > > for that reason).
> > > I think other people may be involved, too.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bináris
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017: Registration Open

[C. Scott Ananian]

...further, I don't think there's a process (yet) for making proposals for
the dev summit, so I don't think it's possible to answer this question at
this time.

I just assumed that whoever will be evaluating these knows that, and filled
in "not yet!" under "Have you submitted a proposal for an activity at the
Wikimedia Developer Summit?".

Similarly for, "Are there any topics that you would like to see at this
year's event?", there is only an extremely rough draft of these topics at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Topic_ideas
-- and I think I proposed about half of these.  So I self-cited, but it's
not clear how useful this question will be in general to other attendees at
this point.
  --scott


On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Ryan Kaldari 
wrote:

> I'm a little confused. Under the "WMF Staff Questions" section of the
> registration it's asking "Why should you be sponsored by WMF to attend the
> Wikimedia Developer Summit?" and it says that "We will only be approving
> WMF staff to attend this event who are planning to actively engage...",
> etc. implying that approval to attend the developer summit is contingent on
> their answer to this question. However, budget owners were already asked to
> fill out flight and lodging approvals for all of their direct reports (for
> both the All Staff and Dev Summit). Is there a second round of vetting that
> will happen at some point?
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 3:37 AM, Bináris  wrote:
>
> > 2016-09-23 12:09 GMT+02:00 Rachel Farrand :
> >
> > > The deadline to request travel sponsorship is Monday October 24th.
> > >
> >
> > And when will the requests be ansered?
> >
> > I am just thinking of travelling (still sot sure how useful it is for me
> > at  the moment and if I can leave my work), but in case of applying I
> would
> > have a trouble.
> >
> > Last year I visited Iran as a tourist, and since then I have been a
> > potential terrorist according to the government of the United States of
> > America. That means I have to apply for a visa 3 months prior to
> travelling
> > (not like other Hungarians who did not visit Iran, and may travel easily
> > for that reason).
> > I think other people may be involved, too.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bináris
> > ___
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> > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
> >
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017: Registration Open

[Ryan Kaldari]

I'm a little confused. Under the "WMF Staff Questions" section of the
registration it's asking "Why should you be sponsored by WMF to attend the
Wikimedia Developer Summit?" and it says that "We will only be approving
WMF staff to attend this event who are planning to actively engage...",
etc. implying that approval to attend the developer summit is contingent on
their answer to this question. However, budget owners were already asked to
fill out flight and lodging approvals for all of their direct reports (for
both the All Staff and Dev Summit). Is there a second round of vetting that
will happen at some point?

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 3:37 AM, Bináris  wrote:

> 2016-09-23 12:09 GMT+02:00 Rachel Farrand :
>
> > The deadline to request travel sponsorship is Monday October 24th.
> >
>
> And when will the requests be ansered?
>
> I am just thinking of travelling (still sot sure how useful it is for me
> at  the moment and if I can leave my work), but in case of applying I would
> have a trouble.
>
> Last year I visited Iran as a tourist, and since then I have been a
> potential terrorist according to the government of the United States of
> America. That means I have to apply for a visa 3 months prior to travelling
> (not like other Hungarians who did not visit Iran, and may travel easily
> for that reason).
> I think other people may be involved, too.
>
>
> --
> Bináris
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> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017: Registration Open

[Bináris]

2016-09-23 12:09 GMT+02:00 Rachel Farrand :

> The deadline to request travel sponsorship is Monday October 24th.
>

And when will the requests be ansered?

I am just thinking of travelling (still sot sure how useful it is for me
at  the moment and if I can leave my work), but in case of applying I would
have a trouble.

Last year I visited Iran as a tourist, and since then I have been a
potential terrorist according to the government of the United States of
America. That means I have to apply for a visa 3 months prior to travelling
(not like other Hungarians who did not visit Iran, and may travel easily
for that reason).
I think other people may be involved, too.


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[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017: Registration Open

[Rachel Farrand]

The Wikimedia Developer Summit will be taking place in San Francisco,
California USA between January 9th and 11th.

Registration is now open. The call for participation will open as soon as
the main topics of the event are defined. You are invited to join the
discussion.

See the wiki for details:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit

The deadline to request travel sponsorship is Monday October 24th.

Hope to see you in San Francisco!
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