[WMF-outreach-staff] Can I interest you in putting together a tutorial on MediaWiki templates?

[Asheesh Laroia]

Hi Brandon,

Hopefully you won't remember me. (-; I'm the one who, at Open Source 
Bridge, joked about using Wikipedia as a dating site....

Anyway, I'm helping organize the DC Hackathon, and I was curious if you 
would be willing to put together a tutorial for the Hackathon on how 
MediaWiki templates work. It wouldn't be backend-oriented (i.e., not about 
how they're *parsed*), but instead focused on what people need to know to 
make sense of them and how they can be used in Wikipedia (and other 
MediaWiki installs).

I think you'd be great because, from the talk I saw you give, I can tell 
that you can really communicate ideas to an audience, and good teaching 
ability is pretty scarce.

It's okay if the tutorial is sort of "alpha" quality. We can iterate on it 
afterward. It's a topic that attendees really indicated an interest in -- 
38 people indicated an interest in it, out of about 100 who answered the 
survey (65 or so of whom say they'll attend the hackathon).

If you want, I can try to produce a table of contents for it so that you 
have more of a sense of what to talk about.

This would be about 1 hour long, on either Tue or Wed.

Let me know what you think! Thanks,

-- Asheesh.