Le 10/08/2014 10:27, svetlana a écrit :
I feel that having development carried out by employees hinders
programming the same software as a hobby: for instance, they work in
a single language, and don't need localised documentation
We have developers across all continents with a wide range of
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, at 04:04, Andre Klapper wrote:
programming should be a hobby, like editing articles
Free Software definitions don't imply that you shall not take money for
your work, or eventually even make a living on it. It's part of the
personal freedom that everybody has. However,
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 5:22 PM, dan-nl dan.entous.wikime...@gmail.com
wrote:
this is an excellent idea and i don't think it needs to be focused only on
large corporations or only on corporate individuals who want to volunteer.
i would suggest opening the idea to any developer with a skill set
On 10 August 2014 13:57, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Actually, I think we should consider serious limits to any such proposal,
such as (as Gilles suggested) working only with reputable employees (or
ex-employees, like Aaron Arcos) of reputable companies. Otherwise I
suspect
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:27 AM, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote:
I feel that having development carried out by employees hinders programming
the same software as a hobby: for instance, they work in a single language,
and don't need localised documentation
Good localized software is
personally i really liked your comparison, when we were chatting the other
day, to an artist in residence -- imo, programmers are the artists of our
time and this matches well.
Absolutely, I also like that idea of doing something similar to artist
residencies. This could take many forms. The
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Gilles Dubuc gil...@wikimedia.org wrote:
personally i really liked your comparison, when we were chatting the
other
day, to an artist in residence -- imo, programmers are the artists of our
time and this matches well.
To me the point
is to have our
+1 Scott
As a new hire at WMF, I consider it to be a privilege to be doing work that
supports the efforts of the community and the movement, but I am also proud of
the fact that what I am doing allows me to support my family without
compromising my personal values. Doing good and making a
This is an idea I've had for a while, and I'd like to see if there's any
interest, or on the contrary concerns, about it. I would like to explore
(and if I have official blessing, champion) the idea of asking corporations
with software engineering staff if they would be willing to let their
utter and complete rubbish as it excludes the community and leaves all
development within corporate hands; All against free software philosophy and/or
community involvement
programming should be a hobby, like editing articles
svetlana
On Sat, 9 Aug 2014, at 23:27, Gilles Dubuc wrote:
This is
On 9 August 2014 15:23, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote:
utter and complete rubbish as it excludes the community and leaves all
development within corporate hands; All against free software philosophy
and/or community involvement
Gilles' proposal does no such thing. On the contrary,
It doesn't exclude the community, the community already contributes to the
software. That's the point of open source. In fact I would expect that
people who already contribute to mediawiki as hobby who are also software
engineers as a day job would enjoy being given the freedom to work on what
this is an excellent idea and i don't think it needs to be focused only on
large corporations or only on corporate individuals who want to volunteer. i
would suggest opening the idea to any developer with a skill set that's needed
or who wants to learn. and make it available in any Foundation
On 08/09/2014 03:27 PM, Gilles Dubuc wrote:
This is an idea I've had for a while, and I'd like to see if there's any
interest, or on the contrary concerns, about it. I would like to explore
(and if I have official blessing, champion) the idea of asking corporations
with software engineering
On Sun, 2014-08-10 at 00:23 +1000, svetlana wrote:
utter and complete rubbish as it excludes the community and leaves all
development within corporate hands; All against free software
philosophy and/or community involvement
I don't appreciate the language you used.
Assume that people mean
+1 to everything Andre said.
-Chad
On Aug 9, 2014 7:05 PM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sun, 2014-08-10 at 00:23 +1000, svetlana wrote:
utter and complete rubbish as it excludes the community and leaves all
development within corporate hands; All against free software
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Gilles Dubuc gil...@wikimedia.org wrote:
asking corporations
with software engineering staff if they would be willing to let their
employees volunteer their expertise and time to mediawiki while ideally
still being on their employer's payroll. I mean
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