I want to specifically invite interested researchers to the Wikimedia
and MediaWiki hackathon happening 14-16 October in New Orleans,
Louisiana, USA.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon
We're getting 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 write software that uses
the MediaWiki API, or runs on the Toolserver, we 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,
authorization/authentication strategy, dev-ops virtualization, and
general training and hacking. And we'll improve and discuss the
Wikimedia Labs projects infrastructure 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 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.
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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation