[07:09:43] Hi tonythomas ! I will not be able to be around during our weekly Newsletter checkpoint, but I was wondering how is Tina doing? I miss her idling here. :) [08:03:05] qgil: ha. just came back. I hope she is busy with her academics [08:03:19] anyway, we have patchsets unmerged in the review queue [08:03:38] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:mediawiki/extensions/Newsletter,n,z [08:13:33] ok [08:38:30] India 6 - Rest of the World 2 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Wikimedia_welcome_its_8_Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Interns#Selected_projects_and_their_mentors [08:43:52] qgil: there is something with GSoC and India :D [08:44:25] The universities here find it a huge thing to get maximum participants for Outrecahy and GSoC! [08:44:56] well, most of the department are unaware of what's happening, and its the students applying for themselves in some cases though. [08:46:23] Hyderabad 2 - Kerala 2 - Goa 1 - Chennai 1 [08:48:20] So, South India 3, Middle 3 ( if you consider Hyderabad to be somewhere in center ) [08:48:40] We need to organize something in India, ref https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Strategy#Playing_field [08:48:47] It's so clear. [08:49:35] true. From our IIT Roorkee workshop, we got one applicant for GSoC, but didnt got selected :( [08:49:45] We tried a couple of years ago with the help of local volunteers but we clashed with Wikimedia politics there. This time we should be smarter. [08:50:36] If you are thinking of conducting something, with collaboration of a University, we have an active FOSS community here! [08:51:06] Will you be at Wikimania? [08:51:50] qgil: yeah! If my visa process go alright :) [08:52:23] We could organize a casual get together with whoever is interested, during the Hackathon. [08:53:06] We had a similar meeting in Zürich but, as said, this time we need to be more tactical, smarter, aiming for something more specific that doesn't require involvement of orgs. [08:53:15] The Rorkee hackathon is a great precedent. [08:53:52] qgil: true. but I am sad that many of them didnt follow up with their patchsets ( almost 3 got merged though ) [08:54:07] we started a google groups ML and things like that, but its difficult [08:54:20] Introducing a new routine in people's life takes time. :) [08:54:29] plus, we put strict prerequisites, which might not work out for a general public [08:57:48] It's all about iterations and learning, I think. [09:00:37] qgil: true. someone was pinging me about a hackathon possibility at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016 [09:02:16] It takes some research to know when and where is that event happening... [09:02:23] Chandigarh, wow. [09:02:43] qgil: yeah. North! [09:03:48] I still could not find the dates [09:04:04] qgil: hmm. Let me check my chat logs [09:04:56] "Chandigarh is a city and a union territory in the northern part of India that serves as the capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana. As a union territory, the city is ruled directly by the Union Government and is not part of either state." The world is such an interesting place. :) [09:06:43] heh. True. complicated place. I gotta feeling that the schedule is not yet finalized. [09:06:53] I got to run. Will brb, and update the blog post [09:07:27] The funny thing is that a schedule exists https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016#Programs_-_3_Days_Program -- but apparently not the dates. [09:07:31] Seeya! [11:53:19] Sigh. Having a Phab UI update means spending half the day to fix my scripts. If they only used IDs for HTML elements. :( [12:36:00] Grmpf. Grmpf, grmpf, grmpf. [17:01:47] when you start feeling comfortable with the phabricator UI, it changes :/