https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2015/Buddies is serving participants to find buddies, but we probably will need to offer extra help to match buddies. The goal is to have no participant without a buddy by the beginning of the event.
See also: T93265: Rooming buddies/rooming list for Lyon Hackathon
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Qgil | T102790 Engineering Community quarterly review (as part of the Community Engagement review) | |||
| Resolved | Qgil | T93770 Engineering Community quarterly goals for April-June 2015 | |||
| Resolved | • Rfarrand | T93584 Goal: Most welcoming and productive Wikimedia Hackathon | |||
| Resolved | • Rfarrand | T93069 Finding buddies for everybody at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 | |||
| Resolved | Qgil | T89392 Plan to bring newcomers to our hackathons and integrate them |
@Rfarrand, I don't know how well are you handling your backlog but this looks like a task you should own? If you are overloaded, then let's talk.
@AlexCella will be providing the registration response form to Rachel and Quim tomorrow so we can start pairing up unpaid people.
many more buddy pairs have been added to confirmed/tentative:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2015/Buddies
The buddy system seemed to be a great success in the majority of the pairs, I am interested to collect feedback from the survey that will be sent out to all participants of the hackathon so see what people thought!