Volunteer coordination and outreach

WMF engineering activity

Volunteer coordination and outreach

Coordination of volunteer efforts, technical outreach and recruitment of new volunteers

Group:	Platform
Management:	Sumana Harihareswara
Team:

The Volunteer coordination and outreach activity aims to ensure volunteers are motivated, excited and effective participants in software development necessary to the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation, and to increase the number of volunteer developers, testers, writers and wranglers.

Sumana Harihareswara is currently leading this effort as Volunteer Development Coordinator.

This activity includes the commit access process.

Status

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  2012-04-monthly: Sumana Harihareswara and other members of the Engineering Community Team continued to follow up on contacts, recruit new contributors to the Wikimedia tech community, and mentor new contributors. They granted developer access and planned upcoming events.

Documents

• Status updates
• Weekend of Code — draft for a proposed engineering outreach activity relevant to volunteer cultivation and hiring
• Volunteer coordination and outreach/Event planning — Event planning checklist
• Volunteer coordination and outreach/Training materials — A project to consolidate and integrate the documentation for training new developers