They should definitely come if possible; we'll try to work something out. Can you inquire re: the interest of the second student, and put them in touch with Ivan and me so we can figure out where/when a presentation might fit and how much support they would need?

They would fit well during Hacking Days to discuss the development of the tools, perhaps also during the regular conference to show off demos if they've gotten far enough. There will be people from Metavid (and perhaps from green.tv) interested in video player integration, and many interested in liquidthreads.

SJ

On 6/16/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:

We've got two students working on projects for us under Google's Summer of Code. One's working on LiquidThreads, a new way of doing discussion pages which could make busy talk pages and Village Pumps a lot easier to handle, and other's working on video player integration.

Both would likely be interesting for people to see, and Wikimania will come several weeks into their work so they should have something to show off; some kind of presentation either in Hacking Days or regular time would likely be great. At least one is definitely interested in coming, but could use funding (coming from Oregon); the other I'll have to ask.

Is this something we might be able to arrange, with full or partial support for their travel costs?

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)