Sooooooo I went to the big Elasticsearch conference and made an effort to reach out for recruiting. It didn't really work out well. Maybe I'm just bad at it. If there is someone in SF and its not super expensive then I don't object but we have to think of these as opportunities to make contacts rather than recruiting. On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Moiz Syed <msyed(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

It might be worthwhile leaning recruiting efforts more toward local Meetups than conferences. They're much more casual/informal, provide recurring chances to meet and get to know folks, and it's common for people to pitch each other ideas and opportunities. Some Bay Area Meetups of direct interest: * http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-NLP/ * http://www.meetup.com/sf-text/ (run by a friend of mine) * http://www.meetup.com/Elasticsearch-San-Francisco/ Some Meetups are more indirectly related, in that they attract smart/enthusiastic people who like to spend their free time learning and solving problems: * http://www.meetup.com/sv-jug/ * http://www.meetup.com/sf-php/ * http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Haskell-Users-Group/ (run by me) * http://www.meetup.com/scala-study-group/ (run by me) * http://www.meetup.com/jsmeetup/ * http://www.meetup.com/oakland-scala/ It goes on and on... On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

I added all(?) the info in this thread to the draft team page. Not sure how best to arrange or format it, but at least it's there. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search_and_Discovery Kevin Smith Agile Coach Wikimedia Foundation *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Help us make it a reality.* On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Wes Moran <wmoran(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

Ooh, count me in too! presentation on what we're doing here (no concrete ideas yet, just a suggestion)? Last month I gave a presentation on linked data -- we could adapt that to talk about something interesting and more directly related to WDQS. On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi! > > > May be interesting - let me know if you plan to attend > > https://openair2015.com > > Since it's in SF and only one day and $50, I'd like to go. I'm not very > good at recruiting though :) > > presentation on what we're doing here (no concrete ideas yet, just a > suggestion)? > > -- > Stas Malyshev > smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-search mailing list > Wikimedia-search(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-search >