Wikimedia Developer Summit/2016/Lessons Learned

This page is currently a draft.

This page is a combination of feedback from a survey sent to participants and ideas from the organizers.

It focuses on improvements for next time and things that went poorly.

Suggested Changes for the next Developer Summit

Background on Feedback Survey

 * rfarrand created the feedback survey form during the Developer Summit.
 * The feedback survey began accepting responses during the last day of the Developer Summit, January 6.
 * Participants received two emails asking / reminding them to fill out the survey. The importance of completing the survey was also mentioned during the summit multiple times.
 * The deadline for filling out the feedback survey was January 18th, the feedback survey was closed on January 19th.
 * 84 out of 155 (54%) participants filled out the feedback survey.
 * An in personal retrospective will be scheduled for the week of January 25th, 2016. Notes from that meeting will be posted.

Considerations for Next Year
This section is based on the fill-in-the-blank/comment sections of the feedback form. Some of these comments will be contradictory. I included common themes and issues that were mentioned by more than one or two people. This section focuses more heavily on areas that have room for improvement instead of things that went well. This section is a bit more subjective than the #Data section below.