New Developers/Quarterly/2018-07

This is the fourth edition of the New Developers Quarterly, a report covering activities, metrics, surveys and lessons learned in the Onboarding New Developers program. This report covers April to July 2018.

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Timeline
Newcomer-focused events, programs, and activities between April–June 2018:


 * April 12-13th The Africa Wikimedia Developers Project led a training in Lagos, Nigeria to orient new developers to Wikimedia's technical spaces
 * April 23rd Wikimedia accepted thirteen projects through Google Summer of Code 2018 and Outreachy Round 16
 * May 12-14th Wikimedia Netherlands organized Women Tech Storm hackathon in the Netherlands for women and non-binary folks
 * May 12-14th Wikimedia Hackathon mentoring program provided more inclusive and welcoming support to new developers attending the event
 * June Wikimedia's Google Code-in final winners Albert Wolszon and Nikita Volobuiev and mentor Florian Schmidt visited the Google's headquarters in California, United States

New developers metrics and trends
See also Technical Collaboration Metrics - Onboarding New Developers