Topic on User talk:BDavis (WMF)/Projects/Tool Labs support

From the Developer Relations point of view, it would be very useful to find a way to identify top contributors of Labs. What makes you a top contributor in Labs is to be defined. The problems to solve are similar to the problem of knowing what are the most remarkable tools in Labs: either you are an insider and know by heart, or you need to contact everybody and see who responds.

Knowing who are the top contributors would allow us to help them better inviting them to Tech Talks, events, meetings to gather quality feedback...

I'm not sure I'm excited about the idea of a "top contributors" list that somehow tries to rank people against each other, but I think I understand your motivation.

I would certainly like to find ways to help developers in the Tool Labs community connect with each other. When we have good channels of communication it should be easier to notify the entire community of events and opportunities to interact with the WMF and other groups.

Something that might be related that I've been thinking abstractly about is a mentoring list on wikitech somewhere that could be used to self-identify as willing and capable of providing assistance with various Tool Labs relates technologies (mysql, grid engine, programming language X, framework Y, ...)