[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

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2013 Developer proposal

2012-08-22 Thread Charles Matthews
On 22 August 2012 15:40, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: snip 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

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

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 morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:

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 experience

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 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. (It's probably

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2013 Developer proposal

2012-08-22 Thread Thomas Morton
On 22 August 2012 20:34, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 August 2012 20:18, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com 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

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

2012-08-22 Thread James Forrester
An 22 August 2012 12:14, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com 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