On 06/19/2012 11:23 AM, rupert THURNER wrote: > Am 18.06.2012 20:40 schrieb "Sumana Harihareswara" <[email protected]>: >> >> 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 >> > > Many thanks for sharing this! Is there any money flow involved im this > partnership as well? > > Rupert
Thanks for the question, Rupert. Yes, the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department is paying OpenHatch for this work. We hired OpenHatch as a contractor. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
