Hi Erik, To specifically respond to your question, and as you know, WMCH does have plans to hire a developer next year for its offline dissemination program (ie KIWIX) [1][2].
Since Europeana had indicated its interest into maintaining/developing it the GWToolset, we decided to focus our efforts on keeping Kiwix going (that's also where our relationship with the community is strongest). This being said, we also do intend to be heavily using the GlamWikiToolset next year already, and may therefore need to develop our own extensions as needs arise. We however first need to find out what such needs are/will be, and how Europeana will handle the load. But yes, to answer your question we do plan on having a dedicated chapter staff whom you will be able to work with (provided the current APG request goes well enough, of course). Cheers Stephane [1] *https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_CH/Proposal_form#Offline_Dissemination_Program <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_CH/Proposal_form#Offline_Dissemination_Program>* [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kiwix_-_Wikipedia_Offline >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling >> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:45:50 -0700 >> From: Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> >> Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >> >> Just pinging this thread -- looking through all the proposals for >> annual plan grants: >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_%C3%96sterreich/Proposal_form >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_UK/Proposal_form >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Sverige/Proposal_form >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Serbia/Proposal_form >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Nederland/Proposal_form >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Israel/Proposal_form >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Eesti/Proposal_form >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Deutschland_e.V./Proposal_form >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_CH/Proposal_form >> >> I'm not seeing any developer contract time allocated to GLAM tooling >> work yet. At the same time I'm seeing reports of breakage and missing >> functionality in important tools running in Labs. To the extent that >> this breakage is due to Labs infrastructure or access to data, it's >> our job (WMF) to fix it and you should (continue to) poke us to do so >> -- but to the extent that it can be addressed in the tools themselves, >> I'd love to see chapters take this on directly. It's possible that I'm >> missing something. Are there more concrete plans at this point in time >> to help support the tools developed by Magnus and others, and create >> new reports on an as-needed basis? Having a dedicated staff person in >> chapters or an affilicate like Europeana who WMF analytics can partner >> with would be really helpful for keeping this moving, in my view. >> >> Thanks, >> Erik >> >> -- >> Erik Möller >> VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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> >> > _______________________________________________ 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>
