Dear all, If there is a summer of code, could you contact us , because we have just making this offline reader :
http://download.kiwix.org ==> it will be available for all the project of the WMF, when all the zenos files are creating. http://www.wikiwix.com/ ==> it s our search engine available ... ... Cordialement Martin Pascal tel : 02 32 40 23 69, fax : 02 32 61 45 26 gsm : 06 13 89 77 32 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Whitworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:24 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] "wiki (usability) summer" - like google summerof code? > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Tim Starling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> GSoC has never produced anything useful for us, so I don't know why you >> think it would be a good model. > > But it has produced useful results for a number of other open source > software communities, so I don't think it's prudent to kick the idea > out the window just yet. What's needed to make a system like GSoC work > is to have a large team of prospective mentors, effort to integrate > the volunteers into the community, etc. I've seen other groups who > have been very successful from this program, adding a large portion of > students as active committers after the program is over. If MediaWiki > hasn't been as successful, it might be worthwhile figuring out what is > being done differently from those projects which are more successful. > >> The idea of a collection of remote workers paid by the line of code might >> sound nice to an online community member, but I'm beginning to think that >> it's risky at best. A software development team working in an office >> together might be old-school, but at least the management practices are >> established, with good results commonly produced. > > I've heard the idea of code bounties discussed before, maybe that's a > model that's worth reconsidering. Take your existing development staff > and ancillary contributors and offer firm cash rewards for specific > features. Ideally new contributors will join the effort in pursuit of > these rewards. Again, something to consider. > > --Andrew Whitwoth > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
