On 5 August 2014 11:33, Gryllida <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. > > WMF Engineering is currently composed of individual teams as documented at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering . These teams look after > the software that faces us everyday, and often work together. > > Could we please have some more people (potentially a dedicated ‘community’ > team) who could do these things: > - encourage feedback by absolutely /anyone/ about the next features they'd > like, > - run programming and documentation activities requested (or started) by > community [there would be a lot of small projects, unlike the big ones the > current Teams are working on], > - encourage localising documentation for, and centralising the location of, > all community-developed programming work, > - raise awareness of community development efforts across all Wikimedia > projects, > - actively encourage members of community become MediaWiki and Gadgets > hackers in the Free Software philosophy? > > This would be, in my view, a relatively small, collaboration-type team (with > just half a handful of people for timezone coverage for IRC support). > > Open to brainstorming and suggestions. I would compile thoughts into a wiki > page afterwards to continue thinking on the idea.
The roles you describe seem to have a lot of overlap with what we might expect WMF volunteer coordinators / WMF community liaison employees to be busy with. Compare with: * http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Volunteer_Development_Coordinator * http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Community_Liaison Do you intend this to be an unpaid team of volunteers doing these tasks, or a end user group (in the Agile sense) that would be supported by employees and may themselves be paid for some activities? Fae -- [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
