Wikimedia Hackathon 2015/Buddies


 * See also wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon/Buddies

Let's use this page to organize Hackathon Buddies in Lyon.

Looking for a buddy

 * Aaron Halfaker (Halfak (WMF) / EpochFail) - Wiki tools that use artificial intelligence and affect Wikipedia's social dynamics -- hopefully for the better :)
 * Dan Garry (Deskana (WMF) / Deskana) - If you like mobile apps or want to know about product management, pick me! :-)
 * MarkTraceur (talk) - maybe interested in gadgets for micro-edits or working on getting Flickr import enabled for all users on Commons
 * Nik Everett (manybubbles/NEverett (WMF)) - Mostly wikidata lately
 * Niharika - Just about anything. I'd like to take this as an opportunity to learn.
 * Dmitry Brant (DBrant (WMF)) - Android app development: let's build more nifty mobile gadgets to encourage users to consume and contribute to Wikipedia :)
 * Chad - Planning to do a sprint on config changes for WMF wikis that they want/need done.
 * RobH - Planning to do a sprint as the dedicated ops support (dns/apache/etc) for this sprint.
 * Corey Floyd (CFloyd (WMF)) - iOS App development - I want to experiment with new UX paradigms and develop some new, useful, and fun ways to interact with wikipedia and wikidata on mobile.
 * Timo Tijhof (Krinkle) - Most anything. Getting started with software development, inner workings of VisualEditor, how countervandalism and patrolling work, cheesy 80s TV shows, pepperoni pizza, ..
 * James Forrester (Jdforrester (WMF)) – Product management, future of the wikis, editing tools, you name
 * Bryan Davis (BDavis (WMF)) - Interested in converting MediaWiki logging to direct use of PSR-3 but also willing to hear pitches on alternate projects involving logging, authentication, deployment tooling, or MediaWiki-Vagrant.
 * Andrewbogott (talk) 20:05, 24 February 2015 (UTC) - Probably something to do with labs or tools stability, for example https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59834 or https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89995. I'd also enjoy working on labs-vagrant.
 * Jon Katz (jkatz_wmf) - Product management, interested in working on new ways to discover content
 * Greg Grossmeier (Greg (WMF)) - All things WMF Release Engineering, including: Third-party MediaWiki releases, WMF site requests (née "shell bugs"), continuous integration (ie: getting your stuff tested), etc...
 * Jon Robson (User:Jdlrobson)) - Preferably someone interested in mobile development / creating new ways to edit/ integrating Wikidata more into our projects!
 * Rummana Yasmeen (User:RYasmeen_(WMF))-Introduction to QA/Testing approaches/Breaking the software ,QA process at WMF, Testathon for VisualEditor, Basics of browser testing.
 * Gilles Dubuc (User:GDubuc (WMF)) - I'm on the Multimedia team, but I'm happy to work on anything. I'd be happy to help someone out who has a clear idea of what they need and could use engineering help to get it done.
 * Monte Hurd - iOS App dev - Generally interested in experimenting on apps with things that would be difficult to do in a browser. Also interested in apps UX refinements, nearby, micro-type contributions, and bringing to apps Wikipedia interfaces which don't yet exist in apps - like a recently edited feed, or a list of most read articles for the day/week.
 * Bernd Sitzmann (BSitzmann (WMF) (talk)) - Open for anything Android Wikipedia app related, possibly fast search language switching if we can't come up with anything more interesting by then. All levels of Android development or design skills welcome.
 * I'm looking for a buddy willing to prototype the very much needed Extension:Newsletter (T76199). PHP or frontend development skills welcome. Gastronomic project meetings and late night work are both negotiable.--Qgil-WMF (talk) 22:41, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm a volunteer developer looking for a buddy, pywikibot (or bot operating), Wikidata, and javascript gadgets. I'm a newbie in mediawiki core (really willing to create a system for book links) Ladsgroup (talk) 10:02, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Andrew Garrett / Werdna looking for somebody to work with on UI Standardisation (let me help you convert your interfaces to our new interface standard!).
 * Siebrand Mazeland Looking for a buddy to work on translatewiki.net/i18n/L10n related projects to improve Wikimedia's i18n/L10n.
 * C. Scott Ananian (CAnanian (WMF)/cscott) -- php thumbnailer as a service. Proof of concept for a more modular organization for the core codebase.
 * Tyler Cipriani (TCipriani (WMF) -- New on release engineering team. Would love to do a proof of concept surrounding deploy and hhvm.hhbc pre-compilation/distribution. Possibly with docker. I also enjoy long walks on the beach, but not getting caught in the rain :(.
 * Roan Kattouw (WMF) (talk) - All things VisualEditor and ResourceLoader. In particular, I'm thinking of redoing debug mode properly
 * Adam Baso (ABaso (WMF)) - I'd like a buddy to build a brand new Wikipedia Lite for iOS app at the hackathon (special note: I'd like it to have nightmode). I'm also very interested in creating an App Extension that would allow people to use the Share button in other apps to share to the existing Wikipedia App for iOS.
 * Prateek Saxena/prtksxna: looking for people interested in front-end stuff - UI standardisation or skins.
 * Brian Wolff (Bawolff). [Assuming I get travel funding]. Interested in core MediaWiki stuff, especially more back-endish stuff. Also interested in Multimedia/Commons, and anything involving sister projects.
 * Gergő Tisza (Tgr (WMF)) - interested in most things that are PHP, JS, Python or Vagrant related; the area I have the most experience with is multimedia.
 * Parent5446 - interested mostly in core architecture and security components, but will work on anything back-end related.
 * User:Mattflaschen (WMF) - Work mostly on Flow, but also in Echo, GuidedTour, core, Tool Labs, and gadgets. I'll consider pretty much any project idea.  Note, I am going to request funding for both the Wikimania and Lyon hackathon, but will put Wikimania as my preference.

Buddies not yet confirmed
Work-in-progress, some details (i.e. travel plans) still might need to be confirmed.


 * A - B

Buddies confirmed
Hi buddies, see you in Lyon!


 * Nikerabbit+Nemo – i18n stuff, about 6 of the suggested characteristics
 * Petr Bena + Andre Klapper
 * legoktm + valhallasw T280 deploy dashboard
 * A - B