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)) - What Monte said but for Android. Open for anything Android Wikipedia app related, possibly fast search language switching. Also open to do Flow/Echo related stuff.
 * 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

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