I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon. It's 1-3 June and
registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with
hotel/hostel, just mention it in the registration form.
https://wmberlin.eventbrite.com/
This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical
community. We'll be hacking, designing, and socialising, primarily
talking about Gadgets, the switch to Lua, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Labs.
Our goals for the event are to bring 100-150 people together, with
lots of people who have not attended such events before. User
scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile,
structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we
want you to come!
Details: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackathon_2012
Thanks to Wikimedia Germany for hosting and coordinating this event.
(Venue still to be determined.)
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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
If you administer a MediaWiki installation and use it as a conference
website when you host conferences and conventions, you might be
interested in this suggested summer project:
> I seek to work on building a Convention extension as part of the Google
> Summer of Code project.I have set up a proposal for the same , here is the
> link http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/GSOCProposal(2012) .
> I haven't found a mentor to work with me for this project yet, so if anyone
> feels the need for this extension just the way I do, please feel free to
> add the feedback to the proposal page, or reply here.
> More information regarding this extension can be found here :-
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/ConventionExtension
> Thanks ,
> Akshay Chugh
> (irc - chughakshay16)
No skilled MediaWiki administrators or developers have shown interest in
mentoring this project, so right now it's unlikely to progress. If you
think you could mentor him this summer, please reply to me and cc him at
chughakshay16(a)gmail.com . Mentoring takes about five hours a week
(communication, code review, design help, and so on).
(He is applying to participate in Wikimedia Foundation's Google Summer
of Code program -- details at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012/management#GSoC_manageme…
and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012 .)
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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation