This has been nagging away at the back of my mind for a few months
now. On IRC earlier, I was talking to Rock Drum, and it finally seemed
sensible to propose it. Since the OTRS workshop, a few different
groups have said "wouldn't it be good if we had a _____ workshop at
the WMUK offices?"
Only, why not bundle them all together and have an intensive one-day
event of skill sharing. I had initially thought of proposing a sister
projects day, but the idea of this would be to have sister projects
and other stuff all bundled together with the idea of enabling
existing Wikimedia volunteers to try new things, and to increase
cross-project coordination (really, despite what you may have heard,
Wikinewsies and Wikisourcers and Wiktionarians etc. don't bite).
I've put a page up on the wiki with the broad idea and some ideas for
sessions. Feel free to throw more ideas on the wiki, even if they are
a bit half-baked or not well thought out. If the event actually
happens, we'd obviously have to determine a schedule.
https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_skill_swap
Is anyone interested in this? What steps would we have to go through
to make this a reality?
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Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>