User:Isarra/OPW proposal

This is a proposal for an Outreach Program for Women (OPW) project developing design documents for Flow, a game-changing project headed by Brandon Harris that seeks to redefine how MediaWiki users interact with and understand the communities with which they work.

While Flow is intended to eventually take the form of a feed bringing all of the disparate notices(?), discussions, and relevant changes(?) into more manageable forms and places, it is currently in the initial design phases. This proposed OPW project will work within that scope to create relevant interaction designs and visual treatment mockups.

Project overview
This project will be working with high-level wire-frame documents and providing mid-level interaction designs and visual treatment mockups.

Lots of skills. Broad context. Flexible timeline and goals.

General internship thingy working on a larger project. This is part of a grand plot to overthrow... uh... bad notifications and following and discussion structure and stuff and more stuff and how the hell do you even explain that thing?

But this part is some designy stuff with that stuff.


 * Are there two mentors (or at least one) committed to support you through the program?
 * Brandon is lead, potential backups (Heather, etc)


 * Is there an emergency plan to be applied if the project is not completed by the end of the program?
 * Flow is big huge scary thing; completed aspects will be done so in the hopes that they will be useful, but with no guarantee of ultimate applicability. This project is simply a piece that may or may not pan out, but is expected to be a worthwhile investment wherever it goes due to the nature of iterative design.

Potential risks and concerns
Time commitment - mention of classes (part-time finishing university) and Uncyclopedia (UN:N, but seriously AAAAAAAAAA! because I'm seriously not a wizard, and okay, that's enough in-jokes for one line).


 * Is your plan realistic, leaving time for tasks like community feedback, testing, documentation...?
 * The plan is vague and will depend on how it proceeds. Given the mentor's experience and position this should not be an issue.

Applicant background

 * What skills and experience do you have to complete the project? URLs welcome.

Squee.
 * Why are you interested in joining this program?


 * Have you contributed to Wikimedia projects in any way before?
 * Wikipedian and Commoner, and poke MediaWiki with a stick largely because of an unfortunate potato-driven bout of workaround-oriented programming, but also something about shiny things. Really shiny things. I love shiny things.