On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, at 20:48, Fæ wrote: > On 5 August 2014 11:33, Gryllida <gryll...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > WMF Engineering is currently composed of individual teams as documented at > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering . These teams look > > after the software that faces us everyday, and often work together. > > > > Could we please have some more people (potentially a dedicated ‘community’ > > team) who could do these things: > > - encourage feedback by absolutely /anyone/ about the next features they'd > > like, > > - run programming and documentation activities requested (or started) by > > community [there would be a lot of small projects, unlike the big ones the > > current Teams are working on], > > - encourage localising documentation for, and centralising the location of, > > all community-developed programming work, > > - raise awareness of community development efforts across all Wikimedia > > projects, > > - actively encourage members of community become MediaWiki and Gadgets > > hackers in the Free Software philosophy? > > > > This would be, in my view, a relatively small, collaboration-type team > > (with just half a handful of people for timezone coverage for IRC support). > > > > Open to brainstorming and suggestions. I would compile thoughts into a wiki > > page afterwards to continue thinking on the idea. > > The roles you describe seem to have a lot of overlap with what we > might expect WMF volunteer coordinators / WMF community liaison > employees to be busy with. Compare with: > * > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Volunteer_Development_Coordinator > * http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Community_Liaison > > Do you intend this to be an unpaid team of volunteers doing these > tasks, or a end user group (in the Agile sense) that would be > supported by employees and may themselves be paid for some activities? > > Fae
"Both please"? [This is a question! This is a brainstorming thread.] Some part of such group of people could be paid (like the job openings you linked), and a very vast part could be volunteer and supported by the said employees (and documentation). Gryllida. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
