On 01/03/2013 10:02 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:
Just to let you all know: Our Executive Manager Sowmyan met Erik some time back and asked if he needed any help from the chapter. Erik said we could hold quarterly hackathons in different parts of India. We are more than happy to do this and would like the Community to support us. We are nothing without the community and volunteers.
This is very good!
But this is a separate discussion than MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad, or isn't it?
Please open a new thread to set the basics of the first event. If they are meant to be organized quarterly you'd better start planning already the first one.
PS: just in case you are wondering, Erik is fully supportive of MediaWiki Groups as they are part of the WMF Engineering team goals [1]. Have no doubt that having several of such groups spread in the Indian territory will help you having successful hackathons adding up to the Wikimedia & MediaWiki penetration in India.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals#Milestone...