User:Sonkiki/Hackathons/handbook/Volunteer roles

Mentoring Program
For this year’s Hackathon we will be implementing a mentoring program for newcomers to our movement. The mentoring program is a new approach that we are trying out for the first time, where we were looking for Wikimedians who will be at the hackathon exclusively as mentors. They will come up with newcomer-friendly projects and ideas and, during the whole weekend, work with groups of about two to six newcomers, to help them with the whole onboarding process, and make their way into the great Wikimedia tech community as easy and as much fun as possible. The focus is to welcome more newcomers into the community, by introducing them to the different aspects of working with MediaWiki, and help them achieve their own first steps during the hackathon weekend. Additionally, we want to create a welcoming social atmosphere, so we can further diversity and growth in our community. Mentoring Program

Event Photography
Event photography means taking photos during the hackathon and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons.

All participants who didn’t agree to have their picture taken are recognizable by special orange lanyards with a “no-photo” print on them.

The regular lanyards are black.

Please put all of your hackathon images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons into the Category:Wikimedia Hackathon Vienna 2017 (or, even better, into fitting subcategories). If you have any questions regarding photography during the hackathon, please reach out to User:Tsui.

Event Blogging
Event blogging means publishing your personal experiences and impression of the hackathon. We have a special section here, which you can use to put links to your personal blog page, or to your user subpage, or a Wikipedia Signpost article that you contributed to, or to your public social media entries (use #wmhack) etc.

If you manage to do this even during the hackathon, and not only afterwards, more people will enjoy it!

Host
As a host, please approach other participants proactively, especially at social events and during mealtime - make sure that nobody feels left out just because he or she doesn’t know many other participants yet. Get familiar with our friendly space policy and the code of conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces as well as with the floor plan and the event management team’s faces. This will support you with helping others.

Mid-event Wiki-updates
For the mid-event wiki-updates, please occasionally wander around the hackathon, ask people what they are working on and add/assist with adding the projects to the wiki. Your task is to make sure that the projects are documented. Please also remind other participants to sign up for the hackathon showcase, and to write ongoing topics on their table's sign.

Post-event Note / Outcome Checking
Post-event note / outcome checking means to help to review documentation after the event, e.g. on Phabricator. You would help to make sure everything is clear and organized, and that next steps have owners.

>> source: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017/Participants