Hello, I think it'll be great. Not at this moment rightly, but sometimes in the past I would have liked to ask devs questions tiny and hence hesitate to post to wikitech-l. IRC helped somehow but timezones have been always a barrier, and in these days I tend not to know who to speak, even if I still know some of devs and sysadmins personally and have realized enough none of them would bite.
I guess I wouldn't be an exception in this community and such a face-to-face Q/A time in a relaxed atmosphere would help a lot. Cheers, On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all > > As you probably know, this year's Wikimania will again feature hacking days > (which I help to organize), just before Wikimania proper. However, the current > setup is missing an opportunity for developers and chapter people to get > together and talk about what the community wants and needs. > > So, I would like to propose to have a Q/A session where the community can ask > questions to developers. I'd like to do this during Wikimania proper, so > everyone has a chance to attend. > > The question is: are people interested? Or is it just my silly idea? > > I feel that people often have "small" questions that developers could answer > quickly, or there are long standing issues and it's unclear why they don't get > fixed. But often people don't know who to ask, or when or how. At the > Wikimedia > Conference in Berlin last year, some people used the opportunity to grab a > techie, which was good, but it was while standing up, over coffee. I'd like to > give this a bit more time, space and especially attention. > > So, would you be interested in such a session? Or do you know people who > would be? > > Please let me know. > > > Cheers > Daniel > > PS: Danese suggested a "fishbowl" type session for this. I think that's a good > idea. Look it up on Wikipedia if you don't know what it is - I didn't :) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > -- KIZU Naoko / 木津尚子 member of Wikimedians in Kansai / 関西ウィキメディアユーザ会 http://kansai.wikimedia.jp _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
