Hi Quim and Wikitechans, I'd like to volunteer especially re what I've recently emailed about in the email thread "[Wikitech-l] How to grow our technical community - Wikimedia Developer Summit," especially it's Wikimedia multi-lingual focus.
Scott On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 2:06 AM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mathieu, let me retry to reply with a generic answer that might be > useful to other people thinking about proposing topics for the Summit. > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Mathieu Stumpf Guntz < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Quim and everyone on the list, > > > > One of my spare time project is to "translate" programming languages to > > Esperanto. I already achieved a Javascript translation within the > > Babylscript project <http://www.babylscript.com/>. Currently I'm working > > on a translation of Lua <https://github.com/psychoslave/lupa>. I chose > > Lua because I wish I was able to code in (somewhat) plain Esperanto when > > writing Scribunto modules on Esperanto Wikimedia projects. > > > > So, I would be happy to know opinions of other developers about such a > > project, and even more important, what steps would you see as necessary > > to make it possible. Would that be a project interesting for a Wikimedia > > Developer Summit? > > > > Let's start with the definition of the Wikimedia developer Summit: > > "The annual meeting to push the evolution of MediaWiki and other > technologies supporting the Wikimedia movement." > > Is your topic within scope? Then let's continue with the main topics > proposed for this edition: > > * A plan for the Community Wishlist 2016 top results > * Handling wiki content beyond plaintext > * A unified vision for editorial collaboration > * Building a sustainable user experience together > * Building on Wikimedia services: APIs and Developer Resources > * How to manage our technical debt > * Artificial Intelligence to build and navigate content > * How to grow our technical community > > Does your proposal fit in any of these main topics? If so, you are > especially encourage to submit a proposal for an activity. If not, you > still can propose an Unconference session. The interest raised by your > proposal (in the form of active participation and subscribers) will help > you and us organizers figure out the best time and place for this activity. > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_ > Summit/Call_for_participation#Selection_process > > -- > 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 > -- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - http://scottmacleod.com - World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
