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The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017 is 10 weeks away! PARTICIPANTS 60 participants confirmed. * 111 more people have requested an invitation. ** 81 of them have requested travel sponsorship as well. Join us! PROPOSALS 58 proposals submitted * 8 in backlog * 10 in Unconference * 6 missing basic information * 27 missing active discussion * 3 to be pre-scheduled * 4 invalid Call for participation. The deadline for submitting new proposals is ****TODAY**** Monday, October 31. MAIN TOPICS Program On track: * A plan for the Community Wishlist 2016 top results * Building on Wikimedia services: APIs and Developer Resources (T147593) Missing basic information * Building a sustainable user experience together Missing one facilitator * Handling wiki content beyond plaintext (T147602) * Building a sustainable user experience together * Artificial Intelligence to build and navigate content (T147708) * How to grow our technical community (T147406) * How to manage our technical debt (T147937) Cancelled * A unified vision for editorial collaboration (related proposals are welcome) ORGANIZATION Promote the Wikimedia Developer Summit beyond the usual circles * A successful promotion brought more scholarship requests than in the previous three Summit editions combined. * Pageviews peaked at 363 on one of the outreach days * Twitter saw 22,737 ‘impressions’ on this tweet, shared by WMF Comms and others and 12,601 for this one. Wikimedia Developer Summit Scholarships * A new committee is reviewing candidates as we speak -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
