Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-14 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:55 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: The reason I suggested a separate IRC channel, since i wrote about it at night and my crazied ramblings probably didn't resemble much, (or communication venue in general, for example people have pointed out a mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-13 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:16 PM, m b meadowla...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, are we signed up for GSOC 2010 yet? I've heard some concern voiced since there is only an hour left. Reference http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs#timeline Yup, our

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-13 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:55 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: The reason I suggested a separate IRC channel, since i wrote about it at night and my crazied ramblings probably didn't resemble much, (or communication venue in general, for example people have pointed out a mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-12 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
* Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:14:16 -0500]: And this is where we've seen a difference. Some people like Jeroen have really integrated themselves, hanging around, asking questions, becoming a part of the community. I'd like to see our developer community grow as a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Dmitriy Sintsov ques...@rambler.ru wrote: There should be a lot of free time to hang around. For example, IRC is really inefficient - you ask a question and often you have to wait for a long time (sometimes never). (That was a question how to add tooltips to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-12 Thread Conrad Irwin
On 03/12/2010 09:01 AM, K. Peachey wrote: Perhaps a separate IRC channel for the GSOC students/mentors (#wikimedia-gsoc?) (and who ever else wants to hangout in there) so that it doesn't get flooded with random questions and such and wouldn't be as hectic (or scary) for the newer irc users.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-12 Thread jeroen De Dauw
Perhaps a separate IRC channel for the GSOC students/mentors (#wikimedia-gsoc?) (and who ever else wants to hangout in there) so that it doesn't get flooded with random questions and such and wouldn't be as hectic (or scary) for the newer irc users. That would be worse, splitting what

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-12 Thread Chad
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:58 AM, jeroen De Dauw jeroen_ded...@yahoo.com wrote: Perhaps a separate IRC channel for the GSOC students/mentors   (#wikimedia-gsoc?) (and who ever else wants to hangout in there) so that it doesn't get flooded with random questions and such and wouldn't be as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-12 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:58 AM, jeroen De Dauw jeroen_ded...@yahoo.com wrote: I agree that a seperate IRC channel is probably not a good idea. (There are enough mw channels already, and in most of them people give really great support, and there is no reason to cut the students off the main

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/3/12 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com: I don't think this is a good idea for the same reason as a separate IRC chat.  Wikitech-l is low-traffic enough that it's reasonable to just use that, unless we're talking about an awful lot of GSOC discussion. I agree, separating GSoC

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-12 Thread Danese Cooper
Personally I would like to see us welcome the GSoC students on existing mail-lists rather than creating special ones because one goal of WMF Staff envolvement this year is to entice the best students to stick around after GSoC is over and integrating them into the real community may better

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-12 Thread K. Peachey
The reason I suggested a separate IRC channel, since i wrote about it at night and my crazied ramblings probably didn't resemble much, (or communication venue in general, for example people have pointed out a mailing list) is because as someone pointed out (someone, Dmitriy i think it was without

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-12 Thread m b
Hello all, I'm still finding my way around these channels. I've never used lists or IRC before these last few days. I'm definitely excited about the prospect of involvement in GSOC here. Not just because of the stipend but for the mentoring, and the opportunity to get intimate with Quiz.php

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-12 Thread Platonides
K. Peachey wrote: The reason I suggested a separate IRC channel, since i wrote about it at night and my crazied ramblings probably didn't resemble much, (or communication venue in general, for example people have pointed out a mailing list) is because as someone pointed out (someone, Dmitriy i

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-11 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Danese Cooper dcoo...@wikimedia.org wrote: The deadline for application from Open Source Projects to Google Summer of Code 2010 is looming (in about 48 hours), and I'm coordinating the formal Wikimedia Foundation entry.  There has already been some excellent

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-11 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote: Do we have to sign up mentors beforehand, or can we add them later as well? I *think* we can tack on mentors later, but it's important that we have a good roster of mentors by tomorrow's deadline. Rob

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-11 Thread Chad
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Danese Cooper dcoo...@wikimedia.org wrote: The deadline for application from Open Source Projects to Google Summer of Code 2010 is looming (in about 48 hours), and I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-11 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I'm with Aryeh on this one. I can't really commit to full-time being able to mentor someone--I have work, school, et cetera--but I'm around often enough to be able to lend a hand or two if needed. Plus if we get our

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-11 Thread Chad
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@robla.net wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I'm with Aryeh on this one. I can't really commit to full-time being able to mentor someone--I have work, school, et cetera--but I'm around often enough

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-11 Thread Danese Cooper
I'm totally +1000 on this point. Its not simple to extend involvement post GSoC, but it can be done (and should be our goal). Danese On 3/11/10 12:14 PM, Chad wrote: Absolutely! I think it's going to be exceptionally important to encourage students to be active on IRC and generally

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-10 Thread Trevor Parscal
On 3/10/10 4:27 PM, Danese Cooper wrote: Good afternoon Wikimedians, The deadline for application from Open Source Projects to Google Summer of Code 2010 is looming (in about 48 hours), and I'm coordinating the formal Wikimedia Foundation entry. There has already been some excellent

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-10 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
I'm interested in working with Nikka on translatewiki.net. He did some coding for us last year on it (and frankly he's the only developer on this project) but he was feeling a little shortchanged since his mentor, while supportive, was not really a developer. This presupposes that I can be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-10 Thread Rob Lanphier
Thanks Trevor and Ariel! For anyone that's interested, if you haven't already, be sure to add yourselves to the list of mentoring candidates at the top of this page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010 (be bold!) Thanks! Rob On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Ariel T. Glenn

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-10 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
A clarification: his mentor was not able to provide development advice/help; this has nothing to do with their general qualifications as a mentor. I was supposed to be available unofficially during that tiem frame and that did not work out. Στις 10-03-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 17:00 -0800, ο/η