Op 15 dec. 2011 om 09:38 heeft Srikanth Ramakrishnan <parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com> het
volgende geschreven:
Aah, well. Will the Hackathon be India specific.
There are multiple interpretations of that question, I think. I'll try to cover all
interpretations I can think of.
FYI: This is all tentative.
Yesterday we came up with a focus for this developer event on gadgets, mobile and language
support.
The Wikimedia Foundation will have to ensure that there is a healthy seed ratio. A seed
here is someone knowledgeable enough to actually transfer knowledge about the technology
and bring the junior level attendees (hopefully) to a higher skill and knowledge level, so
that they in turn will be able to create more value by themselves and are motivated to be
more engaged. For now, it looks like we may be able to have between 8 and 10 people of the
Wikimedia Foundation staff attend. That means we can have a maximum of about 50 attendees
for the in depth sessions.
As we have seen during the developer events in Mumbai and Pune a few weeks ago, we will
probably get a group of people that will be interested in very different things. Mobile
has both client side "app" components, as well as MediaWiki core and extension
components - the scope is not necessarily India here, although communities in India can of
course benefit from generic features. For gadgets, especially when we are talking global
gadgets, a feature of the upcoming ResourceLoader2 (short: RL2), things like
internationalisation and localisation may be a point of interest, but hard core
JavaScript/jQuery user contributed feature development for multiple wikis could also be an
area of interest. India or global? You tell me :).
Language support probably IS going to be aimed at India. It hardly makes sense to focus on
for example African language support from Pune; we should try and make the most out of the
very diverse knowledge pool that a national knowledge and education centre like Pune has
to offer.
That's all I have to share for now. Hope it can satisfy your hunger for information
for now!
I expect that Sumana will be making more formal announcements soon wrt to eligibility,
registration, etc. shortly.
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