On 9/7/10 4:15 PM, Robert Stojnic wrote: > The community needs to be nurtured, and I think all new employees of the > WMF need to be aware of it, and at first interview informed that they > will *need* to interact with the community and with volunteer > developers.
Just FYI, this was the most-stressed topic during my interviews at the WMF. So I don't think it's a matter of the WMF not being aware of the topic. > I think many programmers who have worked in programming > companies are too used to just talking and listening to their team > leaders and no-one else. This is true, but we are trying not to hire this sort of person. Off the top of my head I would guess at least 75% of the developers here had significant open source experience before being hired, many with Wikimedia projects. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar <ne...@wikimedia.org> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
