Hi Brian, I was told by a WMF non-management employee that they have little discretion about which projects they're working on, and that the decisions about priorities come top-down. Hence my interest in engaging with the quarterly planning processes and the people managing those processes to see if there's a way to get community input into the teams' quarterly goals.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > WMF is made up of individuals. If there's something that you think > should be done, why not figure out which team it would normally fall > under, and politely suggest it to the people on the team that they > should make it a priority (If it doesn't fall under any team - lets be > realistic, it probably won't be done) > > They're either going to say yes or they're going to say no. The better > reasoned your argument for why its important, the more likely they are > going to say yes. > > That said, gsoc/opw usually doesn't reflect Wikimedia community > priorities all that much (imo). > > -- > -bawolff > > On 9/28/15, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Quim, > > > > For projects that don't move forward in Outreachy for any reason, is > there > > a way of suggesting that the particularly useful open projects get WMF > dev > > time next quarter? It would be nice if there is a way to incorporate > > community priorities into quarterly department goal setting. > > > > Pine > > On Sep 28, 2015 4:18 AM, "Quim Gil" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> A new round of Outreachy is about to start and we need mentors for > >> projects. > >> > >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_11 > >> > >> Mentors go first, because we haven't many confirmed for this round, and > we > >> have already many possible project ideas: > >> > >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/ > >> > >> Still, if you want to volunteer as mentor for a new project, the gates > are > >> also wide open for you. > >> > >> There are already several candidates looking for a project and asking > for > >> microtasks to show their skills. > >> > >> Questions? Just ask, here or at > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112620 > >> > >> -- > >> Quim Gil > >> Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation > >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
