<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div id="magicdomid2" class="" style="padding-right: 1px; "><span class="author-g-6gjk6w2186qgf0pp" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; ">We recently completed a Hackathon in India where the themes were: </span></div>
<div id="magicdomid3" class="" style="padding-right: 1px; "><span class="author-g-6gjk6w2186qgf0pp" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; ">* localization</span></div><div id="magicdomid4" class="" style="padding-right: 1px; ">
<span class="author-g-6gjk6w2186qgf0pp" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; ">* mobile </span></div><div id="magicdomid5" class="" style="padding-right: 1px; "><span class="author-g-6gjk6w2186qgf0pp" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; ">* offline</span></div>
<div id="magicdomid6" class="" style="padding-right: 1px; "><br></div><div id="magicdomid7" class="" style="padding-right: 1px; "><span class="author-g-6gjk6w2186qgf0pp" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; ">In summary, over one weekend more than 50 volunteers from many parts of India added their hard work and insights to the technical foundation of Wikipedia. In the mobile area alone, volunteers contributed to 17 features, as listed here (features that were worked on are marked with an "H"):</span></div>
<div id="magicdomid8" class="" style="padding-right: 1px; "><br></div><div id="magicdomid9" class="" style="padding-right: 1px; "><span class="author-g-6gjk6w2186qgf0pp url" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; "><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/features#India_Hackathon" style="cursor: pointer !important; ">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/features#India_Hackathon</a></span></div>
<div id="magicdomid10" class="" style="padding-right: 1px; "><br></div><div id="magicdomid48" class="ace-line" style="padding-right: 1px; "><span class="author-g-6gjk6w2186qgf0pp" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; ">We also got support and input from </span><span class="author-g-ab3iz122z0qv7muppffc" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; ">most of the major </span><span class="author-g-6gjk6w2186qgf0pp" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; ">mobile operators </span><span class="author-g-ab3iz122z0qv7muppffc" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; ">in India </span><span class="author-g-tu824yvn9kcybz122zrx" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; ">about how to make our user experience better</span><span class="author-g-6gjk6w2186qgf0pp" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; ">. Free access to Wikipedia is moving forward on a number of fronts, as we identified several forms of collaboration, not just in the form of Wikipedia Zero. For example, there seems to be widespread interest in using an RSS feed of the Article of the Day, and the top 5 languages in India are important.</span></div>
<div id="magicdomid12" class="" style="padding-right: 1px; "><br></div><div id="magicdomid13" class="" style="padding-right: 1px; "><span class="author-g-6gjk6w2186qgf0pp" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; ">This was our first hackathon in India and all in all, it was a resounding success.</span></div>
<div id="magicdomid14" class="" style="padding-right: 1px; "><br></div><div id="magicdomid15" class="" style="padding-right: 1px; "><span class="author-g-6gjk6w2186qgf0pp" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; ">For those of you who were at the event, many thanks and congratulations for your achievements in such a short period of time! We certainly hope you continue to stay involved and continue to contribute.</span></div>
<div id="magicdomid16" class="" style="padding-right: 1px; "><br></div><div id="magicdomid17" class="" style="padding-right: 1px; "><span class="author-g-6gjk6w2186qgf0pp" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; ">IRC is a good way for developers to stay in touch. Join wikimedia-mobile on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="author-g-6gjk6w2186qgf0pp" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; ">Regards,</span></div><div id="magicdomid17" class="" style="padding-right: 1px; "><span class="author-g-6gjk6w2186qgf0pp" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; ">Phil</span></div>
</span><div><br></div>-- <br>Phil Inje Chang<br>Product Manager, Mobile<br>Wikimedia Foundation<br>415-812-0854 m<br>415-882-7982 x 6810<br><br>