Re: [Wikitech-l] Coding challenge about to land. :)
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/10/11 01:24, Tomasz Finc wrote: here is a snippet from an email that Erik send three days ago explaining Gregs role. subject: Heads up: Online coding challenge The overall project is being coordinated by Greg DeKoenigsberg, formerly Senior Community Architect at Red Hat. If you'd like to be involved as a judge, please let him know (greg.dekoenigsberg at gmail dot com). --tomasz Heh, good point. I looked for a We just hired Greg DeKoenigsberg email didn't think into reading again Erik's mail. It is a fair point, though. I've been working for the project for a couple of months, so it's my fault that I hadn't communicated to this list before now. You'll be hearing more from me soon. Particularly when I start begging the wikitech--l cognoscenti to be judges. :) --g ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Coding challenge about to land. :)
On 22/10/11 01:24, Tomasz Finc wrote: here is a snippet from an email that Erik send three days ago explaining Gregs role. subject: Heads up: Online coding challenge The overall project is being coordinated by Greg DeKoenigsberg, formerly Senior Community Architect at Red Hat. If you'd like to be involved as a judge, please let him know (greg.dekoenigsberg at gmail dot com). --tomasz Heh, good point. I looked for a We just hired Greg DeKoenigsberg email didn't think into reading again Erik's mail. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Coding challenge about to land. :)
Hey Greg D-K...nice to see you involved ('bout time) ;-). A coding challenge is
a great project for this community. Looking forward to see the results!
Danese
On Oct 20, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg greg.dekoenigsb...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello all. We are about to kick off the October 2011 Coding
Challenge, to which Erik alluded in his emails yesterday. I just
wanted to offer a brief word of thanks to all at Wikimedia who have
helped to put this together, and express my sense of what it is that
we're doing.
This is an experiment. It may be brilliant, or it may not be.
Offering a big prize for challenge winners may be a master stroke, or
it may be a terrible mistake. The contest may yield lots of smart
developers or lots of clueless noobs. There may be a torrent of new
voices overwhelming #mediawiki and wikitech-l, or there may be no one
at all. I have no idea what to expect, and I'm not about to pretend
otherwise. I will be fascinated to see how the next few weeks play
out.
One thing I am confident about: from everything I've observed about
the Wikimedia technical community so far, I'm not the least bit
worried about how noobs will be received. In some communities, this
would be a note begging everyone to please, *please* not be to mean to
the noobs -- but in this community, I only feel obliged to thank all
of you in advance for being helpful and patient, as I know you will
be.
If you have any questions or concerns about the contest, feel free to
raise them here on the list, or address them to me personally.
--g
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Coding challenge about to land. :)
Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: No. You'd sound like an ideal tester hitting a use case we didn't even consider. Will look into it. --g I don't want to sound harsh, Greg but... who are you? It seems it's the first time you post here, yet your email is written as if you were in charge of this. PS: I've heard ED tastes delicious :) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Coding challenge about to land. :)
Well, for the record the overall coding challenge project is being coordinated by Greg DeKoenigsberg, formerly Senior Community Architect at Red Hat. ;) — Patrick On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: No. You'd sound like an ideal tester hitting a use case we didn't even consider. Will look into it. --g I don't want to sound harsh, Greg but... who are you? It seems it's the first time you post here, yet your email is written as if you were in charge of this. PS: I've heard ED tastes delicious :) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Coding challenge about to land. :)
here is a snippet from an email that Erik send three days ago explaining Gregs role. subject: Heads up: Online coding challenge The overall project is being coordinated by Greg DeKoenigsberg, formerly Senior Community Architect at Red Hat. If you'd like to be involved as a judge, please let him know (greg.dekoenigsberg at gmail dot com). --tomasz On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: No. You'd sound like an ideal tester hitting a use case we didn't even consider. Will look into it. --g I don't want to sound harsh, Greg but... who are you? It seems it's the first time you post here, yet your email is written as if you were in charge of this. PS: I've heard ED tastes delicious :) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Coding challenge about to land. :)
Here is another new one, long time since I've been active on this list. I've been thinking that this coding challenge is a good idea, and I should probably try to whip together something. If I have the time. I like the idea of giving the reader an experience of pages in continuous change, but it should also gin an impression about the present quality. So how to do that without killing caching and responsiveness of the pages ... jeblad On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Patrick Reilly prei...@wikimedia.org wrote: Well, for the record the overall coding challenge project is being coordinated by Greg DeKoenigsberg, formerly Senior Community Architect at Red Hat. ;) — Patrick On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: No. You'd sound like an ideal tester hitting a use case we didn't even consider. Will look into it. --g I don't want to sound harsh, Greg but... who are you? It seems it's the first time you post here, yet your email is written as if you were in charge of this. PS: I've heard ED tastes delicious :) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Coding challenge about to land. :)
Hello all. We are about to kick off the October 2011 Coding Challenge, to which Erik alluded in his emails yesterday. I just wanted to offer a brief word of thanks to all at Wikimedia who have helped to put this together, and express my sense of what it is that we're doing. This is an experiment. It may be brilliant, or it may not be. Offering a big prize for challenge winners may be a master stroke, or it may be a terrible mistake. The contest may yield lots of smart developers or lots of clueless noobs. There may be a torrent of new voices overwhelming #mediawiki and wikitech-l, or there may be no one at all. I have no idea what to expect, and I'm not about to pretend otherwise. I will be fascinated to see how the next few weeks play out. One thing I am confident about: from everything I've observed about the Wikimedia technical community so far, I'm not the least bit worried about how noobs will be received. In some communities, this would be a note begging everyone to please, *please* not be to mean to the noobs -- but in this community, I only feel obliged to thank all of you in advance for being helpful and patient, as I know you will be. If you have any questions or concerns about the contest, feel free to raise them here on the list, or address them to me personally. --g ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Coding challenge about to land. :)
Would I sound like a reactionary old crank if I asked why the coding challenge welcome page requires JavaScript? Without it, one can't even see the list of challenges! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Coding challenge about to land. :)
No. You'd sound like an ideal tester hitting a use case we didn't even consider. Will look into it. --g On Oct 20, 2011 8:29 PM, Steve Summit s...@eskimo.com wrote: Would I sound like a reactionary old crank if I asked why the coding challenge welcome page requires JavaScript? Without it, one can't even see the list of challenges! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
