We are really excited to let you know about the Angelhack hackathon which
is due to be hosted in Pune on MAY 20-21, 2017. The event access page is
We would like you to be a part of the whole event as a non-profit and let
the participants help you as part of the Code for a cause challenge.
Code For A Cause is welcoming nonprofits worldwide to join us at our 10th
Global Hackathon Series, to inspire our global community to leverage their
skills for good and give back to their local communities.
We’ll be rolling out the AngelHack-red carpet for nonprofits at each and
every event, all we ask in return is that the nonprofits create a challenge
to inspire our hackers! To nominate your nonprofit, please fill out this
form
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FDslsB50BM8Whm5wmlCQMWcJrmrqRYY_m_n9pI50wLc/>.
Selections will be accepted on a rolling basis.
Thanks and regards
Nishith Shetty
9527444568 <(952)%20744-4568>
On Apr 27, 2017 08:42, "Victoria Coleman" <vcoleman(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Isarra,
thank you for the question. We want to support our diverse technical
communities in a variety of ways. One of our key tools are the hackathons,
where we hope to welcome both seasoned and new volunteer developers. We
want to support them not just by providing a series of events but also with
tools and WMF staff time. These are the key goals of our new Wikimedia
Cloud Services team. They build and make labs and tools available and
participate in the hackathons to onboard newcomers and in general assist
volunteers. Another key change we are making this year is creating the
MediaWiki Platform team who as well as doing much needed work on the
codebase will also facilitate contributions and planning with the volunteer
community by publishing a roadmap. And as Quim notes below we are changing
the nature of the Dev Summit to have it focus on the strategic technology
issues and decisions the Movement is faced with. As such it is an event
that might appeal more to the seasoned members of our community. Attendance
for the summit will be decided on the basis of position papers for WMF
staff and volunteers alike. I am personally excited about the lineup of
events this coming year. But as always we learn and adapt. If we
collectively decide to try for a different configuration the following
year, we can totally do that. Please keep the feedback coming!
Best regards,
Victoria
On Apr 26, 2017, at 12:23 PM, Isarra Yos
<zhorishna(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Regarding the Developers Summit in particular, how do you plan to
reconcile making
the event smaller with your goal of better retention of
newcomers and volunteers in general when that's often the only venue they
have at which to discuss the high-level technical issues with other
stakeholders? Volunteer and third-party developers are not privy to most of
the usual venues afforded to WMF staff such as inter-team meetings and
events, and yet they make up an important part of the overall stakeholder
community that these issues impact. They - we - need to be able to
participate in these discussions, and the Developers Summit is one of very
few opportunities even open to us where we can make our voices heard.
-I
On 20/04/17 07:28, Quim Gil wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Quim Gil<qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi, the Wikimedia Foundation has published a draft of its Annual Plan
>> FY2017-18
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Draft>
>> and it welcomes your review.
>>
>> I want to highlight here the improvements that we are proposing to the
>> developer events (co)organized by the WMF. From local to global:
>>
>> The Technical Collaboration team proposes to combine multiple
activities
>> (often disconnected) in a single program
focusing on onboarding new
>> developers
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Draft/Programs/Community_Engagement#
Program_12:_Onboarding_new_developers>. We
>> want to work with the Wikimedia technical
community to bring a new
wave of
>> developers to our projects, and events
play an important role.
>>
>> Local developer events
>> We want to support developers and organizations willing to reach out to
>> specific groups and geographies. We are hoping to see many local
developer
>> meetups and small hackathons or workshops
around the World, starting
small
>> and simple. We should be able to offer
introductory materials, contacts
>> with Wikimedia developers in the region, maybe travel budget to send
>> experienced volunteers to help mentoring the in the bigger events,
maybe
>> travel budget to invite the best
newcomers to our regional and global
>> events.
>>
>> Adding tech to regional Wikimedia events
>> Last year we experimented organizing technical workshops in WikiArabia,
>> and others have done similar efforts in other regional events (for
>> instance, a small hackathon next to WikiConference India). We want to
work
>> with the organizers of these regional
events in order to attract
>> experienced Wikimedia developers and newcomers, organize developer
>> activities, and also improve the collaboration between the technical
and
>> non-technical contributors in these
regions.
>>
>> Better retention of newcomers at the Wikimedia and Wikimania hackathons
>> Although we don't expect major changes in the organization of the
>> Wikimedia Hackathon and the hackathon at Wikimania, we want to focus
better
>> on new developers onboarding and
retention. In every Hackathon we meet
many
>> new developers, but the retention rates
are very low. We want to review
>> what we can do before, during, and after these apparently successful
events
>> in order to retain newcomers better. One
hypothesis is that we should
focus
>> call for participation, scholarships, and
Wikimedia Foundation
>> participation in providing a great experience to new volunteers who
have
>> gone through local and regional events,
and also "junior" developers
coming
>> from wiki projects through the
development of bots, gadgets, tools,
>> templates.
>>
>> A smaller and more focused Wikimedia Developer Summit
>> After some discussions between Community Engagement, Technology, and
>> Product, we have decided to propose a different approach for the
Wikimedia
>> Developer Summit. Organized by the
Technology department as part of
their technical
>> community building
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Draft/Programs/Technology#Program_4:
_Technical_community_building>
>> efforts, we want the Summit to finally
become the venue where the
toughest
>> technical problems are discussed between
the stakeholders directly
related.
>> We want to reduce the size/budget of the
event, separate it from the
WMF
>> AllHands,
>>
> Due to travel budget considerations, the Summit still might be
connected to
> the WMF AllHands.
>
>
>> and define its main themes well in advance.
>>
>> A Program
Committee<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160996> would
>> decide these main themes to be discussed at the Summit. We also want to
>> explore the possibility of tackling some of these themes at the
Wikimedia
>> Hackathon and Wikimania, where we could
get most stakeholders involved
with
>> just a little extra effort (since many of
them would be attending
anyway).
>>
>> We believe that this approach will serve better the Wikimedia technical
>> community that we have, and also the the community that we want to
have,
with a new wave of developers joining our various
projects.
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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