User:Paulproteus

(This is Asheesh's personal sandbox.)

It seems now that AuthDjango works again.

Berlin hackathon thoughts

• Which projects will be looking for new contributors?
  • pywikipedia bot + English Wikipedia Unblock Ticket Response System especially

• What is the required knowledge for new contributors?
  • For each such thing, where's the hackathon-official doc for that?
  • Who will be on the ground helping?

• Where is the list of entry-level tasks for those projects?

• Who will take the time to talk to people about their background and identify good first bugs?

• Ensuring that there are high-quality laptop setup instructions, preferably cross-platform, for the tech tools required for these projects, e.g. pywikipediabot

• Ensuring the schedule has time for laptop setup and that we find on-the-ground volunteers to help address development environment problems newcomers will face.

• What problems did people face in previous times?
  • Is there a list of past attendees who we can ask an exit survey? A year later is late, but better late than never

Essential links:

• General info: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackathon_2012

• Signup page: ??

• Talk page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Berlin_Hackathon_2012
  • Next step: Research these proposed topics in detail and converse with leads