2013/7/24 Balázs Viczián <[email protected]>: > Is WMF planning to outsource any of its engineering activities in the > future? Or are there enough projects in the queue that makes the effort > reasonable?
I'd say this has already happened de facto with Wikidata. And projects are always a bunch - just not always aligned with the WMF priorities. Perhaps outsourcing some resources to local developers would help solve some of the long-opened bugs for projects related to a certain project. Strainu > > Otherwise I believe there is no point for any chapter to build out any > software engineering capacity above their local needs or at all. > > Balázs > > > > 2013/7/24 Erik Moeller <[email protected]> > >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:44 AM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I don't agree with Romaine's view that it is a cultural problem, but it >> is >> > true that the WMF management seems to prefer to have all development >> > concentrated in SF. >> >> Hardly. About half of WMF's engineering staff is distributed (both >> inside and outside the US), and we've encouraged and supported >> software engineering efforts by chapters. I'd actually love to see >> much more of that happen, and see other chapters build engineering >> capacity over time. It's legally challenging for WMF to have office >> presence in multiple jurisdictions, but having independent orgs like >> Wikimedia chapters build out development teams doesn't suffer from >> that challenge. >> >> We're an open source project; being able to decentralize effort is our >> strength. The caveat I would add is that you actually need to ensure >> that complex projects are resourced sufficiently. Wikidata is a >> success in part because it's a well-resourced, well-managed team, and >> the partnership in areas where WMF does need to help was carefully >> negotiated. >> >> So, which other chapters are up for building out serious software >> engineering capacity? >> >> Erik >> -- >> Erik Möller >> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
