Hey, a quick reminder: The New Orleans developers' days for Wikimedia & MediaWiki are 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. This is based on a previous workshop we gave: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker/Workshop

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.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon

Hope you, or people you know, can come. Thanks!

On 09/03/2011 02:12 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:

We're holding a Wikimedia and MediaWiki hackathon in six weeks: 14-16 October in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon

Please come! It'll be a blast. :-)

We want to get together a wide variety of contributors -- including template, script, tool, extension, and gadget writers -- to participate, give feedback, test, and hack with us. If you hack MediaWiki, or write software that uses the MediaWiki API, or runs on the Toolserver, other developers want to chat and collaborate with you.

At the event, MediaWiki developers and Wikimedia operations engineers will be working on Wikimedia's gadgets/extensions/tools support, general training and hacking, etc. 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 MediaWiki with awesomeness.

The event is open to anyone who wants to come and contribute, and is an opportunity to spend time with senior 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

(And please spread the word!)

Thanks and best wishes.