Hello everyone,
If you are interested in organizing or joining a hackathon event, but
cannot attend the in-person Hackathon event in May in Athens, Greece, this
email is for you!
We encourage communities, user groups or chapters to organize satellite
events connected to the in-person Hackathon. These events are to be
organized autonomously and share the hackathon's purpose: bringing the
global technical community together to connect, hack, run technical
discussions, and explore new ideas.
You can work with your wiki community to organize these events before,
during, or after the main event to onboard newcomers to the technical
aspects of the Wikimedia movement, hosting watch parties or meetups in your
region to offer an alternative to people who cannot join the in-person
event in Athens.
To obtain help with organizing an event, you can apply for funds via the *Rapid
Grants* maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation. The deadline to apply for
funding is *March 20*. When preparing for your event, you can reach out to
the Hackathon organizing team for support with resources, designing the
program, and guidance on getting involved in the global event.
Learn more about the satellite events, funding process, and a checklist for
organizing on the wiki page: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Satellite_events>
[1]
Cheers,
Srishti
On behalf of the Hackathon organizing team
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Satellite_events
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
A data center switch will happen on March 1. Please check
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch to know more about it.
We need translators' help to update and check the message we usually use.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-T…
*Translators, please have a careful look at the instructions we provided
for some messages.* For most cases, you won't have to update much, except
for one sentence regarding the time, where you will have to adapt the
message to the different places where the language is spoken. Again, no
need to give timezones for Latin America for a language that is at 95%
spoken in Asia!
Let me know if you have any questions, preferably on the page talk page, so
that translators can coordinate there:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/Server_switch
Thank you for your help with this important technical event.
Benoît
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Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
The Tech Department at Wikimedia Foundation [1] invites you to a* special
event on February 09, 2023, at 1600 UTC* [2].
*Richard Evans, Electronics & Data Systems Engineer At NASA Glenn Research
Center *[3], will be presenting on *how MediaWiki is being used within NASA*
to help manage the testing of very large spacecraft to prove they can
survive the harsh conditions of launch, orbit, and re-entry. The management
platform is built from MediaWiki and several key extensions that provide
workflow support. This evolving platform plans to incorporate the
extensions that form the MediaWiki-powered Open CSP platform [4]. This talk
will explain the architecture and benefits of the NASA platform and
motivate the need for Open CSP. We’ll also be recording the event to share
with those who can’t make it. You can join the event through Google Meet
[5].
Looking forward to seeing you there,
*--on behalf of the Tech Department, Wikimedia Foundation.*
*(For follow-ups, please reach out to *lnguyen(a)wikimedia.org.)
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology
[2] https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1675958415
[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q618728#sitelinks-wikipedia
[4] https://www.open-csp.org/Main_Page
[5]
https://stream.meet.google.com/stream/ce81307c-cdb7-4a5e-9697-65c423f27614
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Erica Litrenta (she/her)
Senior Manager, Community Relations Specialists (Product)
Wikimedia Foundation