We're hosting a Wikimedia and MediaWiki hackathon happening 14-16 October 2011 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon
If you extend, modify, or otherwise hack MediaWiki, then other developers want to meet and collaborate with you. At the event, MediaWiki developers and Wikimedia operations engineers will be working on Wikimedia's gadgets/extensions/tools support, authorization/authentication strategy, dev-ops virtualization, and general training and hacking. And we'll improve and discuss the Wikimedia Labs projects infrastructure
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs
and other stuff that makes it easier for anyone to supercharge Wikimedia with awesomeness.
The event is open to anyone who wants to come and contribute, and is an opportunity to spend time with other MediaWiki developers & ops engineers, write beautiful code, and learn about the latest developments. We'll write code together, discuss the software, and hold little workshops.
If you can make it to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 14-16 October 2011, we'd love to have you. Please add your name to the attendees list:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon#Attendees
Thanks! Hope to see you there.