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; 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 created 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