Particpating projects (more to come):
It would be great to have at least one Featured Project targeting volunteer designers, justifying that bet for GitHub.
@Qgil Sorry, I'm not sure, I understand. What do you mean by “Featured Project”? To my knowledge there's no “Onboarding Designers“ program (yet)…?
@Volker_E: Some context (all in draft state): m:Technical_Collaboration/Onboarding_New_Developers and mw:Featured_Projects.
That's right. What we are doing here is to provide a simpler framework for i.e. you to start one in a simple way. No worries, you don't need to be among the earliest adopters. Just keep an eye here.
Summarizing here some ideas emerging in various conversations, up for discussion:
"Featured Projects" must be a flexible concept in order to accommodate what were slightly different needs under the same roof:
And maybe we said even more things, and all them should be seen now as potential Featured Projects. It is clear that all these projects and tasks will not fit directly in the shape of a Featured Project, but I believe it is easy to agree that this fragmentation doesn't help anyone. Imagination and flexibility will help better mentors and newcomers than strict definitions. Anyway we are not forcing everything and everyone to become a Featured Project, we are just planning to focus our support on those projects and mentors willing to try this approach.
As an example, "fixing gadgets" could be seen as an activity good for newcomers, but not fitting in the framework of Featured Projects because most gadgets don't have enough entity to become a project-project, with mentors, documentation, a variety of first tasks, and so forth. True. However, we could also see "Fixing Gadgets" as a Featured Project targeting JavaScript developers, where mentors would be gadget developers happy to collect tasks and help newcomers, the documentation would be the general documentation for Gadget development, a support channel would be agreed to funnel these newcomers even if they work on different gadgets, and so forth.
+1 to @Qgil's ideas!
@Aklapper For the list of tasks portion in featured tasks, I'm wondering... in addition to redirecting to the bug tracker, we also keep on-wiki a well maintained, good mix (beginner, intermediate, expert level) of tasks (~5-6).
In the context of featured projects and list prepared for T169709, a few thoughts, and noticings:
After the request from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, now we are getting a similar request from @D3r1ck01 in the context of the University of Buea. Better collaboration with universities is an explicit goal of our Onboarding New Developers program, where the Wikipedia Education Program is mentioned explicitly but of course the collaboration should be open to other universities as well.
There is quite a bit of information that could be specific to collaboration with universities around Featured Projects that is now spread in tasks, etherpads, emails. Maybe it is time to create a task about having a page under Featured Projects targeted to university teachers and students interested in final career projects?
Maybe it is time to create a task about having a page under Featured Projects targeted to university teachers and students interested in final career projects?
IMO not under Featured Projects, but at some point, we should recycle this page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Starter_kit to serve workshop organizers, university teachers, etc.. add information about Featured Projects, include presentation materials, videos, etc. that will help them carry out this work.
I was thinking more of a page explaining what we offer to universities. @srishakatux a page with specific instructions makes sense when a teacher/student already has decided to commit and dive into, but for that they need to understand what we have for them, what we have done with other universities before, and so on.
Quim asked me to check if the projects we have featured for Outreachy Round 15 (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_15) could become possible candidates for featured projects, I think my answer is no.
We did reach out to mentors of featured projects in New Developers and asked if they wanted to showcase a project for Outreachy Round 15.
WikiEd dashboard is the only one onboard, there was some interest from Android apps team (https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/815), but the mentors will not have time to commit to this round, and there are some dependency issues too.
Didn't hear back from others.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this task completed? It's time to archive Developer-Advocacy (Jul-Sep 2017) and I'll be bold here.
It is. Thanks!
Summarizing:
For the records, regarding more potential featured projects that were contacted,