[Wikimediauk-l] List reply-to setting (was: 2013 Developer proposal)

2012-08-22 Thread James Forrester
An 22 August 2012 12:14, Thomas Dalton wrote: > Sending this again because it went off-list by accident. Anyone know > why Tom's email didn't have a reply-to header? Yes; as part of the changes we made to the list last week, we set it so that "reply" will by default only reply to the sender, and

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2013 Developer proposal

2012-08-22 Thread Thomas Morton
On 22 August 2012 20:34, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 22 August 2012 20:18, Thomas Morton > wrote: > >> I'm not a involved in technology professionally, but I did handle most > >> of the tech work for WMUK's first fundraiser in 2009. > > > > > > Great! I've been trying to find someone able to give

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2013 Developer proposal

2012-08-22 Thread Thomas Morton
> > > Then consider office tech support, which is on your list. That's >> >>> something you can't really do remotely and part-time. If something >> >>> goes wrong, you need to be there to fix it. With a rapidly growing >> >>> office, that's going to take up a significant amount of time as well. >>

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2013 Developer proposal

2012-08-22 Thread Thomas Morton
And here is my reply... (not sure why my email doesn't have a reply-to header but it seems to be happening a lot at the moment... I think it is a mailman issue because the same is happening to everyone (for me anyay). I'm not a involved in technology professionally, but I did handle most > of the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2013 Developer proposal

2012-08-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
Sending this again because it went off-list by accident. Anyone know why Tom's email didn't have a reply-to header? On 22 August 2012 19:19, Thomas Morton wrote: >> I think WMUK's tech needs are substantially more than 0.2 FTE. > > I disagree; indeed no one has actually properly enumerated, in o

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2013 Developer proposal

2012-08-22 Thread Thomas Morton
> > I think WMUK's tech needs are substantially more than 0.2 FTE. > I disagree; indeed no one has actually properly enumerated, in one place, all of the tech needs - so how we can be sure I don't know (hint: this is what I've been trying to prompt from the get go) I don't know how much experienc

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2013 Developer proposal

2012-08-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
I think WMUK's tech needs are substantially more than 0.2 FTE. If you only have someone for one day a week, you don't need them to have a wide array of skills since they won't have time to do a wide variety of things. On Aug 22, 2012 3:40 PM, "Thomas Morton" wrote: > Afternoon all, > > I've had s

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2013 Developer proposal

2012-08-22 Thread Thomas Morton
A lot of the other infrastructure relies on PHP; so that shouldn't be an issue! If you have specific projects in mind (even if they are speculative) feel free to list them on the Wiki. The more data points the better! Tom On 22 August 2012 17:33, Charles Matthews wrote: > On 22 August 2012 15:4

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2013 Developer proposal

2012-08-22 Thread Charles Matthews
On 22 August 2012 15:40, Thomas Morton wrote: > If you have a moment to comment on it that would be great! Ideally the > community needs to identify exactly what development needs it has - and > establish some fixed goals for hiring. PHP please. I'm currently up to my eyeballs in Moodle, and f

[Wikimediauk-l] 2013 Developer proposal

2012-08-22 Thread Thomas Morton
Afternoon all, I've had some free time today so looked into the technical gap Wikimedia UK is facing (this is somewhat tied into the 2013 activity plan/budget). My understanding is that the developer job failed to recruit a suitable candidate