https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/How_to_grow_our_technical_community is now in a decent state. Edits welcome.

I have sent to wikitech-l, wikimedia-l, and volunteer-supporters an announcement pointing to this page.

FYI I went through the tasks not assigned to a quarterly sprint at the Developer-Advocacy and Community-Relations-Support boards and I left a note in those that could be candidates for Summit sessions given enough interest:

Would this task be a good topic for the Wikimedia-Developer-Summit (2017) ? If so, the deadline to submit new proposals is next Monday, October 31: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/Call_for_participation

I have listed all the proposals submitted related to this main topic at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/How_to_grow_our_technical_community#Proposals_welcome, in order to have a simpler view of what we have got.

Participation is welcome in all these proposals. Now we have a maximum of 11 aiming to be pre-scheduled. As a first impression, this number seems very high.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/How_to_grow_our_technical_community#Proposals_welcome has now 5 candidates to be pre-scheduled. From those, one will be surely pre-scheduled, maybe two, and only in a very strange combination of events a third one would get in. I am asking questions and checking activity/interest in the proposals in order to decide.

The current status is:

• 2 sessions pre-scheduled
• 5 confirmed Unconference sessions
• 3 candidates for Unconference sessions
• 2 proposals moved out of the Summit, to be discussed later.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/How_to_grow_our_technical_community#Proposals