Excellent news Sumana! Welcome Asheesh and OpenHatch team :-)
-Alolita On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Sumana Harihareswara < [email protected]> wrote: > OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free > software contributors with communities, tools, and education. Wikimedia > Foundation is pleased to announce that we're partnering with OpenHatch > <http://openhatch.org/> to make the upcoming pre-Wikimania hackathon > even more useful. > > Asheesh Laroia and other OpenHatch folks will be working with Katie > Filbert (Aude), Gregory Varnum (Varnent), and me to encourage and aid > the Wikimedia technical community, by designing and executing the > novice-focused half of the hackathon. You'll see Asheesh in IRC as > "paulproteus". > > I'm excited that we're working with OpenHatch on this. I've borrowed > lessons from OpenHatch in structuring our events and educational > materials. They are leaders in teaching new contributors, and in > building open source communities' capacity to nurture. With OpenHatch's > help with this event (and with the documentation they write), I hope to > get scores of semitechnical Wikimedia editors over the barriers to > technical contribution. > > OpenHatch will, among other tasks: > * Develop novice-focused curricula that include tutorials for novices > * Design at least three project-based exercises for novices, based on > the model OpenHatch created with its Python and open source workshops > * Review existing public reference and tutorial material on the topics > * Update or write relevant instructional documentation on mediawiki.org, > including writing high-quality setup instructions for a new developer's > development environment > * Find on-the-ground volunteers to help address problems that newcomers > will face > * Disseminate lessons learned to the Wikimedia community > > You'll see Asheesh and his colleagues on the hackathon page at > https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon , in IRC channels > #mediawiki, #wikimania, and #openhatch, on wikitech-l, on Wikimania's > lists, and the new Wikimedia/OpenHatch event list: > http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/wmf-outreach-staff . > > Welcome! > > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > 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
