Submissions/Tool Labs users BoF

This is an Open submission for Wikimania 2017 that has not yet been reviewed by a member of the Programme Committee.

Submission no.

Title of the submission: Tool Labs users BoF

Type of submission: birds of a feather discussion

Author of the submission: Bryan Davis
Language of presentation: English

E-mail address: bd808wikimedia.org

Username: BDavis (WMF)

Country of origin: United States

Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.): Wikimedia Foundation

Personal homepage or blog: bd808.com

Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal)

This BoF is targeted at developers of any experience level who use (or want to use) the Wikimedia Tool Labs environment to host software beneficial to the Wikimedia movement. Potential topics of discussion include:

Shared services missing from the Tool Labs environment
Promoting your tools to potential users
Best practices for solving common problems
Attracting co-maintainers
How to gracefully step away from a tool when you lose interest
Practical implications of the right to fork policy
Choosing a license
Discussion of how to act together as a community

What will attendees take away from this session?

Connections with each other and Wikimedia Cloud Services staff.
Ideas about how to move forward on blocking problems
Ideas about better long term communication channels
Ideas about how to run stronger software projects
Ideas about how to interact with on-wiki communities

Theme of presentation: Technology, Interface & Infrastructure

Length of session: 50 minutes

Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?: Yes

Slides or further information (optional)

Special requests

Is this Submission a Draft or Final? Final

Interested attendees

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