As someone who attended this last year, I think that having a specific small project/goal in mind would be very helpful -- many attendees seemed to enjoy the projects where they could show off what they did in the end.
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> wrote: > http://gracehopper.org/2013/conference/grace-hopper-open-source-day/ > > "The purpose of Grace Hopper Open Source Day is to give attendees of the > conference and some of our friends from local universities the > opportunity to code, network and contribute to the greater social good." > > I was going to lead this. But if possible, I'd like to concentrate on my > sabbatical and give someone else a chance to guide these folks (mostly > women who are studying computer science as grad students or > undergraduates). I can give you instructions and task lists for how to > help these MediaWiki/Wikimedia newbies started. And WMF can pay for you > to get to Minneapolis and stay overnight for a few nights. (The closer > you are, the better.) > > Can you help? > > I'd like to get this taken care of by the end of this Friday; please > email me off-list if you're interested. Thanks. > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Leslie Carr Wikimedia Foundation AS 14907, 43821 http://as14907.peeringdb.com/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
