On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 08:20, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Thank you very much for your work! I would be interested specifically
in knowing what opportunities especially appealed to the students and
what kinds of snags and problems they ran into when considering, or
trying to start, contributing to MediaWiki and other Wikimedia technologies.

It was a wrong crowd (only few from CS background) I would say, I realized only moments before talking. 4 hands went up for knowing something called PHP. I couldnt help much :( There were few interested though, gave them pointers to start, contact details.Introduced API(since some were familiar with java) and showed them some tools.One student was particularly interested on Semantic Mediawiki, gave some pointers/details (to best of my knowledge). I havent got any followup mails though.

It was a good visit to alma mater though :)

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Regards
Srikanth.L