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From: Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Internal-l] Do you use MediaWiki as a conference website?
Related to this idea, OpenMeetings is a site established to capture
meetings and video/audio/text of talks at them, under a free license.
The site is a wiki and founded by a wikipedian, but they are looking
for it to be adopted by a wider community.
SJ
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:57 AM, aude <aude.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
<sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
If you administer a MediaWiki installation and use it as a conference
website when you host conferences and conventions, you might be
interested in this suggested summer project:
I would be very interested in there being some investment in the technology
for running a Wikimania and other conferences.
Unfortunately, the Wikimania 2012 is very much tied up with actually running
the conference and then we need a long holiday to not think about organizing
conferences. :)
Also, there is the Drupal Conference Organizing distribution which does a
lot and has been a product of several years work by experienced Drupal
developers. I don't think it's simple to magically make MediaWiki into
wonderful conference software, as stuff like international payment
processing is complex.
If the GSOC project can be some small piece of what a Wikimania needs, that
might be more feasible.
Cheers,
Katie
>
>
> > I seek to work on building a Convention extension as part of the Google
> > Summer of Code project.I have set up a proposal for the same , here is
> > the
> > link
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/GSOCProposal(2012)
> > .
> > I haven't found a mentor to work with me for this project yet, so if
> > anyone
> > feels the need for this extension just the way I do, please feel free to
> > add the feedback to the proposal page, or reply here.
> > More information regarding this extension can be found here :-
> >
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/ConventionExtension
> > Thanks ,
> > Akshay Chugh
> > (irc - chughakshay16)
>
> No skilled MediaWiki administrators or developers have shown interest in
> mentoring this project, so right now it's unlikely to progress. If you
> think you could mentor him this summer, please reply to me and cc him at
> chughakshay16(a)gmail.com . Mentoring takes about five hours a week
> (communication, code review, design help, and so on).
>
> (He is applying to participate in Wikimedia Foundation's Google Summer
> of Code program -- details at
>
>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012/management#GSoC_manageme…
> and
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012 .)
>
> --
> Sumana Harihareswara
> Volunteer Development Coordinator
> Wikimedia Foundation