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#Mileston…
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