Am 14.04.2013 16:48, schrieb Jeremy Baron:
Maybe there was some public planning or discussion (or
even something
on the -team list) that I missed or somehow wasn't subscribed to. But
maybe this is one more an example of how I wish Wikimania were more
like DebConf (
debconf.org). Typically I've wanted to apply the DebConf
model to organization in general and video recording/streaming/etc.
but I imagine this applies just as well to setting up a registration
server. Not saying we should copy everything exactly nor are they
perfect as is but I think they have a good model to learn from.
I don't know how debconf works or what the model is like. I have never
been to any debconf, and I guess a lot of otheres here neither, because
teh debconf was mentioned several times by you and so far I haven't seem
someone picking it up. It would be interesting what they do better.
In our case we do what you mentioned with "With DebConf, more work is
typically done in house by volunteers that are interested in what
they're working on.".
After Gdanks I managed to get the source code of registration and
scholarship websites which has long been maintained by one or two people
only. Putting it on my webserver I made it available to every Wikimania
team since 2010.
Harel in 2011 made a lot of improvements to the system, with him and the
upcoming chapter scholarships we added multilingual support.
In 2012 Aude improved the coding style of the scholarship tool (I think
it was basically a re-write at least of the PHP framework, the database
seem to be the same).
The 2013 team also did some changes, even though I don't know exactly
because I didn't track it.
Anyway, the tools will be available for the 2014 team again, whoever it
will be. If we keep working on these tools and not start reinventing the
wheel again (which happens sometimes) every team can benefit from the
improvements done over time. Another problem we solved by that is that
the teams now have access to the tools by themselves, via SSH to the
server and to the code and also via PHPMyAdmin in a convenient way to
access their data. And if everything breaks and nobody feels responsible
for it or the local team disappears, I am still their as a neutral host
to have a look, export data or do whatever is needed.
For video archiving, streaming (not recommended) and wifi we also have
plans in the Wikimania team wiki, available to every team and to be
improved (theoretically) over the years. Here, I don't know why, we
haven't managed yet to get into a gradually reusing and improving
process. Most of the suggestions and plans there are still mine from
2010 and revised in 2011 but with no further use or improvement.
/Manuel
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