I signed up just to test the form. Do not bite me! :-) No, really, I think it looks great. I hope we surface lots of wonderful new people :-) Sue
-- Sue Gardner Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation 415 839 6885 office 415 816 9967 cell Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate On 20 October 2011 18:02, Greg DeKoenigsberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all. We are about to kick off the October 2011 Coding > Challenge, to which Erik alluded in his emails yesterday. I just > wanted to offer a brief word of thanks to all at Wikimedia who have > helped to put this together, and express my sense of what it is that > we're doing. > > This is an experiment. It may be brilliant, or it may not be. > Offering a big prize for challenge winners may be a master stroke, or > it may be a terrible mistake. The contest may yield lots of smart > developers or lots of clueless noobs. There may be a torrent of new > voices overwhelming #mediawiki and wikitech-l, or there may be no one > at all. I have no idea what to expect, and I'm not about to pretend > otherwise. I will be fascinated to see how the next few weeks play > out. > > One thing I am confident about: from everything I've observed about > the Wikimedia technical community so far, I'm not the least bit > worried about how noobs will be received. In some communities, this > would be a note begging everyone to please, *please* not be to mean to > the noobs -- but in this community, I only feel obliged to thank all > of you in advance for being helpful and patient, as I know you will > be. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the contest, feel free to > raise them here on the list, or address them to me personally. > > --g > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
