There's a fairly new website called SocialCoding4Good that aims to match mature free/open source projects with experienced developers who want to volunteer. They've invited us to be part of the pilot.
http://socialcoding4good.org/ Specifically, in the pilot phase, SC4G will suggest open source tasks to experienced engineers who are taking paid sabbaticals (sometime in spring 2012) from their R&D jobs at VMWare. We and 3-4 other nonprofits are asking to host some of their engineers. I have suggested some tasks, both for 1-week stints and for 3-month engagements. http://socialcoding4good.org/organizations/wikimedia Like Google Summer of Code interns and most OpenHatch entrants <http://openhatch.org/+projects/MediaWiki>, these engineers will be new and will require mentorship. Unlike GSoC students, these are experienced developers, so I feel comfortable mentioning some of our larger and hairier TODOs, like the visual editor, extension management, and metaschema work. I already submitted this page to VMWare (because of their deadlines) but I welcome suggestions for other stuff to put on it, for the post-pilot phase. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_large_bugs seems like the best wiki page to put those suggestions on. I'll merge stuff together when more stuff is on the wiki page. And I'll be chasing you all to volunteer for mentorship in the spring, too. :-) -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
