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2016-10-31
The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017 is 10 weeks away!
PARTICIPANTS
60 participants confirmed.
* 111 more people have requested an invitation.
** 81 of them have requested travel sponsorship as well.
Join us!
PROPOSALS
58 proposals submitted
* 8 in backlog
* 10 in Unconference
* 6 missing basic information
* 27 missing active discussion
* 3 to be pre-scheduled
* 4 invalid
Call for participation. The deadline for submitting new proposals is
****TODAY**** Monday, October 31.
MAIN TOPICS
Program
On track:
* A plan for the Community Wishlist 2016 top results
* Building on Wikimedia services: APIs and Developer Resources (T147593)
Missing basic information
* Building a sustainable user experience together
Missing one facilitator
* Handling wiki content beyond plaintext (T147602)
* Building a sustainable user experience together
* Artificial Intelligence to build and navigate content (T147708)
* How to grow our technical community (T147406)
* How to manage our technical debt (T147937)
Cancelled
* A unified vision for editorial collaboration (related proposals are
welcome)
ORGANIZATION
Promote the Wikimedia Developer Summit beyond the usual circles
* A successful promotion brought more scholarship requests than in the
previous three Summit editions combined.
* Pageviews peaked at 363 on one of the outreach days
* Twitter saw 22,737 ‘impressions’ on this tweet, shared by WMF Comms and
others and 12,601 for this one.
Wikimedia Developer Summit Scholarships
* A new committee is reviewing candidates as we speak
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil