Hello everyone,

This is my first post to "Wikimedia India" mailing list, I recently successfully completed my internship with WMF as a part of Google Summer of Code. This year we had 9 students from India interning with WMF, this number is huge considering the fact that 20 students were selected across the globe. I was wondering if maybe we could have an annual "Indian Wikimania", where developers can meet and share their experiences, conduct hackathons, etc. We also have had many developers in the past GSoC editions too. We could channel all this experience and organize an annual event.

There have been workshops in Kolkata( conducted by Sucheta nd team), alongside the GNunify Conference, at BITS Goa campus. I could manage to read the summary of these events and all of them turned out to be big hits. So if we could conduct such workshops on a large scale annualy, we can definitely attract more developers to contribute.

And any reason why the "The Wiki Conference" has only held in 2011 and not continued after that?

I maybe wrong on my facts, please excuse me and correct me for that.

Thanks,

Rahul