Volunteer coordination and outreach/status

Last update on: 2011-07-25

2011-06-01
About 13 new developers were granted commit access in May, among which 6 Summer of Code students, and 2 Wikimedia Foundation employees. Volunteer development coordinator Sumana Harihareswara joined the review team, and will become the primary point of contact for commit access requests.

2011-07-01

 * Open Source Bridge conference (June 21-25, Portland, Oregon, USA) — Sumana Harihareswara presented new features in MediaWiki 1.17 and gathered offers of volunteer help (especially around database support, testing, bug triage, and right-to-left support). She also gave a talk about technology management, and recruited candidates for the Wikimedia Foundation's current job openings (read more).

Volunteer development coordinator Sumana Harihareswara is now the primary point of contact for commit access requests. About 7 new developers were granted commit access in June, among which were 2 Summer of Code students, and 2 Wikimedia Foundation employees.

2011-07-25
About 11 developers were granted commit access in July, among which were 2 Wikimedia employees, and 4 Wikia employees. Sumana Harihareswara attended the Community leadership summit and OSCON in Portland, notably to reach out to potential new developers and testers for MediaWiki. 