On 09/03/2011 01:41 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:

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.

This is a reminder: the Wikimedia/MediaWiki developers' meeting is this weekend.

In the late morning on Saturday, Roan Kattouw will lead a workshop for developers to teach them how to hack MediaWiki -- MediaWiki's overall architecture and ways to mod it, from site preferences to gadgets to extensions. Attendees will learn how to customize MediaWiki using CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.

Tentatively scheduled for midday Sunday is Chad Horohoe's testing training - a lecture on how to write tests, walking attendees through the documentation and teaching them how to run tests. He writes:

"I'll find a simple function we still need a test for, and use it as an example. I'll briefly touch on setting up phpunit (with the caveat that *sometimes* it's harder than it should be, so ask if you need extra help). Then dive into how to write the test."

You can just drop in for either of those, or come for more of the weekend.

I hope you can join us!