Re: [Wikitech-l] Attracting new talent to our projects

2015-01-05 Thread Jon Robson
(and this is my current thinking for an experiment in mobile - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85815 - feel free to move conversation over there if this interests you) On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Jon Robson wrote: > I think in my spare time I'll write a patch to test easter eggs in the >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Attracting new talent to our projects

2015-01-05 Thread Jon Robson
I think in my spare time I'll write a patch to test easter eggs in the console out in the mobile world and see if we get any bites (bites being phabricator patches/new users on bug reports etc). Will report back any findings. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Nikolas Everett wrote: > On Sat, Jan 3,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Attracting new talent to our projects

2015-01-05 Thread Nikolas Everett
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:30 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Jon Robson wrote: > >Thoughts? > > Adding easter eggs sounds like a fairly strange recruitment tactic, but I > don't see any harm in trying it out and seeing what happens. It's not > totally clear to me what problem we're trying to solve here (i

Re: [Wikitech-l] Attracting new talent to our projects

2015-01-03 Thread Jon Robson
I was thinking more for the movement and specifically curious if this has ever been attempted in the past. If it hasn't it seems like something we should try. On 3 Jan 2015 20:30, "MZMcBride" wrote: > Jon Robson wrote: > >Recently on https://developer.mozilla.org/ I noticed an easter egg > >when

Re: [Wikitech-l] Attracting new talent to our projects

2015-01-03 Thread MZMcBride
Jon Robson wrote: >Recently on https://developer.mozilla.org/ I noticed an easter egg >when you pop open the JavaScript console. > > >"Interested in having a direct impact on hundreds of millions of users? >Join Mozilla, and become part of a global community that’s helping to >build a brighter futu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Attracting new talent to our projects

2015-01-01 Thread Andre Klapper
On Thu, 2015-01-01 at 07:18 +0200, Eran Rosenthal wrote: > Just to mention (Yuvi Panda idea): > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/348122 Looking at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki we link to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/

Re: [Wikitech-l] Attracting new talent to our projects

2014-12-31 Thread Eran Rosenthal
Just to mention (Yuvi Panda idea): http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/348122 On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Jeremy Baron wrote: > On Dec 31, 2014 7:22 PM, "Gabriel Wicke" wrote: > > Perhaps some fun HTTP headers > > < > http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/08/15/fun-and-unusual-http-

Re: [Wikitech-l] Attracting new talent to our projects

2014-12-31 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Dec 31, 2014 7:22 PM, "Gabriel Wicke" wrote: > Perhaps some fun HTTP headers > < http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/08/15/fun-and-unusual-http-response-headers/> See also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70982 -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikite

Re: [Wikitech-l] Attracting new talent to our projects

2014-12-31 Thread Gabriel Wicke
Perhaps some fun HTTP headers ? Gabriel On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > Recently on https://developer.mozilla.org/ I noticed an easter egg > when you pop open the JavaScript console. > > > "Intere

[Wikitech-l] Attracting new talent to our projects

2014-12-31 Thread Jon Robson
Recently on https://developer.mozilla.org/ I noticed an easter egg when you pop open the JavaScript console. "Interested in having a direct impact on hundreds of millions of users? Join Mozilla, and become part of a global community that’s helping to build a brighter future for the Web." I'm cu