On 4/4/09 4:06 PM, Mark (Markie) wrote:

Just to remind you all that the Call for Participation for Wikimania 2009 closes soon. You can view the Call for Participation on the following page: http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation with many translations available.

For more information about Wikimania 2009, see http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/

Also a quick note -- after a hiatus last year, we're planning to do another Hacking Days developer event at Wikimania '09 in Buenos Aires.

Final details are still being put together, but we expect to have an introductory unconference-style session the day before the main conference starts, then an open hacking room available for use throughout the conference, where folks can hang out, chat, and code with or without your laptop. :)

There'll be a wrap-up panel session at the end to present some of the cool things that people have been working on.

We're very interested in getting both the "usual crowd" of MediaWiki devs as well as maybe picking up some South American developers who we haven't seen or heard from as much before.

-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) CTO, Wikimedia Foundation