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WikiDev'17 Keynote by Ward Cunningham: Has our success made it hard to see your own contribution?
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Description

We have the pleasure and the honor to have Ward Cunningham as our keynote speaker at Wikimedia-Developer-Summit (2017)!

Ward Cunningham in San Francisco.jpg (2×2 px, 3 MB)

Session video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnZJHw8NmEQ
Session notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/DevSummitNotes

Some ideas

  • Wikipedia is singularly successful, that means there is no where else to look for guidance
  • How can a thousand great decisions leave us in such a mess?
  • Some things you can do and can't do to influence your user's creativity
  • The valley is a hard place to feel good about yourself, here's why
  • How I read all of MediaWiki in one hour (I only read the punctuation)
  • If I'm old enough to be your grandpa then how come I know JavaScript?

Bio

Ward Cunningham has worked for and consulted to daring startups and huge corporations. He has served as CTO, Director, Fellow, Principal Engineer and Inventor. He is best known for creating wiki. He leads an open-source project rebuilding wiki to solve more complex sharing situations addressing some of society's toughest problems. Ward founded movements in object-oriented, agile software, extreme programming and pattern languages. Ward lives in Portland, Oregon and works for New Relic, Inc.

Event Timeline

To the owner of this session: Here is the link to the session guidelines page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Session_Guidelines. We encourage you to recruit Note-taker(s) 2(min) and 3(max), Remote Moderator, and Advocate (optional) on the spot before the beginning of your session. Instructions about each role player's task are outlined in the guidelines. The physical version of the role cards will be made available in all the session rooms. Good luck prepping, see you at the summit! :)

Note-taker(s) of this session: Follow the instructions here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Session_Guidelines#NOTE-TAKER.28S.29 After the session, DO NOT FORGET to copy the relevant notes and summary into a new wiki page following the template here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Your_Session and also link this from the All Session Notes page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/All_Session_Notes. The EtherPad links are also now linked from the Schedule page (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Schedule) for you!

I let the following IRC channels know about the keynote, with several positive responses (especially from OddMuse, hehe): #ClubPenguinWiki, #FlexWiki, #PmWiki, #bitweaver, #blenderwiki, #django-wiki, #dokuwiki, #dota2wiki, #foswiki , #gamepedia, #gentoo-wiki , #horde, #jspwiki, #miraheze, #moin, #nethackwiki, #oddmuse, #opensuse-wiki, #tikiwiki, #trac, #twiki, #wiki, ##wikia, #wikka and #xwiki on FreeNode, #wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org, #ikiwiki on OFTC

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