User:Paulproteus

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WMF Testing event thoughts

My goal:

• At least 10 people who start the autoconfirmed process
• At least 20 total attendees
• Preferably 33%+ attendance by women

Groups to notify:

• campus.openhatch.org list
  • Done
• JHU women in CS?
• Hopefully get a link on the Geek feminism "linkspam" thing
  • Submitted
• Lydia Pintscher blog post

Other things to do:

• Add "Important dates+times" to the event page

Berlin hackathon thoughts

• Which projects will be looking for new contributors?
  • pywikipedia bot + English Wikipedia Unblock Ticket Response System especially; Kiwix as well
  • Find the maintainers of both; work to help those contributors organize their documentation and set up their lists of tasks to do/bugs to fix at the hackathon
  • Look for and try to help address technical/social infrastructure problems with those projects
  • Try to maybe create a minimal-tech version of http://linuxgrrl.com/fedora-ux/Projects/OpenHatch%20Reading%20Lists/mentor-page.png + http://linuxgrrl.com/fedora-ux/Projects/OpenHatch%20Reading%20Lists/reading-list.png for this event

• 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