Thanks for all your kind welcome-back messages, public and private! On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Maarten Dammers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Sumana, > > Sumana Harihareswara schreef op 4-1-2014 4:48: > > Hi! As of yesterday, I'm back after my three-month sabbatical at Hacker >> School. I'm in catchup mode so I haven't yet resubscribed to most lists, >> nor quite taken back over Engineering Community Team (Quim Gil is still in >> charge until sometime next week when I feel back up to speed). >> > Welcome back! Would be great if you could share your experiences, you're > the only person I know who went to a hacker school :-) > Do you plan to contribute (more) code to WMF or other open source projects? > > Maarten I am a different and better person now that I've done Hacker School. It rewired my brain to spend 12 weeks in an environment of self-directed learning where the social rules https://www.hackerschool.com/manual#sub-sec-social-rules and the admissions process kept us from accidentally discouraging each other and made Assume Good Faith a living reality. There are a lot of developer boot camps or training courses out there, and they have various merits, but nearly all of them have a fixed curriculum. At Hacker School I was in charge of my own experience, but could pair program with any of my colleagues or the facilitators. I'm a lot stronger as a developer and I no longer find it as embarrassing to reveal my own ignorance. Please feel free to read my Hacker School-related blog entries http://www.harihareswara.net/nb/nb.cgi/category/sumana/Hacker%20Schoolwhich are not yet finished; I'm also happy to talk more, publicly or privately, about my experience. To answer your other question, I do plan to keep on contributing to WMF-related projects. I need to fix up the language/Wikidata bits of https://tools.wmflabs.org/missing-from-wikipedia/index , for one thing.... _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
