Am 18.06.2012 20:40 schrieb "Sumana Harihareswara" <[email protected]>: > > OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free > software contributors with communities, tools, and education. Wikimedia > Foundation is pleased to announce that we're partnering with OpenHatch > <http://openhatch.org/> to make the upcoming pre-Wikimania hackathon > even more useful. > > Asheesh Laroia and other OpenHatch folks will be working with Katie > Filbert (Aude), Gregory Varnum (Varnent), and me to encourage and aid > the Wikimedia technical community, by designing and executing the > novice-focused half of the hackathon. You'll see Asheesh in IRC as > "paulproteus". > > I'm excited that we're working with OpenHatch on this. I've borrowed > lessons from OpenHatch in structuring our events and educational > materials. They are leaders in teaching new contributors, and in > building open source communities' capacity to nurture. With OpenHatch's > help with this event (and with the documentation they write), I hope to > get scores of semitechnical Wikimedia editors over the barriers to > technical contribution. > > OpenHatch will, among other tasks: > * Develop novice-focused curricula that include tutorials for novices > * Design at least three project-based exercises for novices, based on > the model OpenHatch created with its Python and open source workshops > * Review existing public reference and tutorial material on the topics > * Update or write relevant instructional documentation on mediawiki.org, > including writing high-quality setup instructions for a new developer's > development environment > * Find on-the-ground volunteers to help address problems that newcomers > will face > * Disseminate lessons learned to the Wikimedia community >
Many thanks for sharing this! Is there any money flow involved im this partnership as well? Rupert
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