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!
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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation