Hi, I am very happy to see that the New Developers Quarterly report is raising some interest. Yes, there are important problems of sustainability in our developer community that deserve attention.
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: > Suggestion, throw away the current plan and rather than using findings > to create incremental improvement,[1] try something completely > different before all the wheels fall off. I look forward to seeing > some serious radical initiatives. > The good news is that we have done this already. :) The retention numbers for this quarter correspond to the newcomers who landed between ~April-September 2016. We can expect there developers attracted by our hackathons in Jerusalem and Esino Lario, and the corresponding Google Summer of Code and Outreachy rounds. It was by that time when the Technical Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation (who co-organizes these activities with mentors and affiliates) was digging beyond our apparent success, deeper into the problem of developer retention. Then we started to think that we should focus on new developers, even if that meant less focus for our more experienced technical contributors. Since then, we have radically changed our plans and we are experimenting in various ways. You can find a comprehensive explanation in a blog post published last week: How Technical Collaboration is bringing new developers into the Wikimedia movement <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/05/technical-collaboration-new-developers/> Since we are discussing about new developers, let me also recommend you another blog published just yesterday: Towards building an African Wikimedia Developer Community <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/19/african-wikimedia-developer-community/> . Wikimedia volunteers and affiliates, we welcome your ideas and involvement! When our developer community grows, everybody benefits. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
