Greetings all,
I just wanted to give you guys a heads up that both Arthur Richards and I are going to be speaking at http://gnunify.in/ this week in Pune. We have a couple of presentations lined up including
Title: Powering the world’s favorite wiki - Wikipedia Abstract: Mr. Finc will talk about the Wikimedia movement, its history, growth and chapters. He will also talk about Wikimedia’s technical infrastructure and how this top 5 website is run. He will also provide an overview about the software that Wikipedia uses for its websites - Mediawiki.
Talk Title: Mobile@Wikipedia Talk Abstract: An introduction to Wikimedia Mobile Engineering efforts past, present, and future. This talk will cover the current state of Wikipedia mobile development, what’s upcoming and where Wikimedia Foundation is looking for you to contribute.
Talk Title: Hacking Mediawiki Abstract: This talk will provide an introduction on how to write Mediawiki extensions and participate in Mediawiki’s developer community. The session will talk about the essentials of hacking - the inspiration, software, community. It will also walkthrough an overview of Mediawiki, an introduction to features, best-practices in security and scalability of Mediawiki, documentation, and various ways to extend the software. Open Source communities are key to the success of any project. The talk will also discuss various aspects of working in Mediawiki’s open source community successfully - how to communicate, who and where to engage, getting your code accepted, and accessing the right resources.
Talk Title: Drupal + CiviCRM + Wikimedia Foundation = Awesome Talk Abstract: This talk will provide an overview of Drupal, CiviCRM using Wikimedia websites as the case-study. It will cover how Drupal and CiviCRM play an important role at Wikimedia foundation as a CMS and CRM, why these projects are cool, how Wikimedia uses these tools, and contributing back to the open source projects.
The schedule is still coming together so its best to check the website for all updates.
GNUnify will actually have a lot of Wikimedia discussions this year as it is one of their tracks.
For those of you that might not be familiar with Arthur and my own work, we were part of the core team that was responsible for the fundraising infrastructure at Wikimedia. When not fundraising I concentrate on both both mobile and offline Wikimedia projects. Arthur focuses on backend infrastructure and drupal based projects.
We'd love to see any Wikimedians come by! And if you can't certainly feel free to catch me on irc or in email to say hello.
--tomasz
Hi Tomasz / Arthur, Welcome to India!
I am also adding Pune and Mumbai Wikimedians to the loop ...
Regards Tinu Cherian
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
Greetings all,
I just wanted to give you guys a heads up that both Arthur Richards and I are going to be speaking at http://gnunify.in/ this week in Pune. We have a couple of presentations lined up including
Title: Powering the world’s favorite wiki - Wikipedia Abstract: Mr. Finc will talk about the Wikimedia movement, its history, growth and chapters. He will also talk about Wikimedia’s technical infrastructure and how this top 5 website is run. He will also provide an overview about the software that Wikipedia uses for its websites - Mediawiki.
Talk Title: Mobile@Wikipedia Talk Abstract: An introduction to Wikimedia Mobile Engineering efforts past, present, and future. This talk will cover the current state of Wikipedia mobile development, what’s upcoming and where Wikimedia Foundation is looking for you to contribute.
Talk Title: Hacking Mediawiki Abstract: This talk will provide an introduction on how to write Mediawiki extensions and participate in Mediawiki’s developer community. The session will talk about the essentials of hacking - the inspiration, software, community. It will also walkthrough an overview of Mediawiki, an introduction to features, best-practices in security and scalability of Mediawiki, documentation, and various ways to extend the software. Open Source communities are key to the success of any project. The talk will also discuss various aspects of working in Mediawiki’s open source community successfully - how to communicate, who and where to engage, getting your code accepted, and accessing the right resources.
Talk Title: Drupal + CiviCRM + Wikimedia Foundation = Awesome Talk Abstract: This talk will provide an overview of Drupal, CiviCRM using Wikimedia websites as the case-study. It will cover how Drupal and CiviCRM play an important role at Wikimedia foundation as a CMS and CRM, why these projects are cool, how Wikimedia uses these tools, and contributing back to the open source projects.
The schedule is still coming together so its best to check the website for all updates.
GNUnify will actually have a lot of Wikimedia discussions this year as it is one of their tracks.
For those of you that might not be familiar with Arthur and my own work, we were part of the core team that was responsible for the fundraising infrastructure at Wikimedia. When not fundraising I concentrate on both both mobile and offline Wikimedia projects. Arthur focuses on backend infrastructure and drupal based projects.
We'd love to see any Wikimedians come by! And if you can't certainly feel free to catch me on irc or in email to say hello.
--tomasz _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Hoi, I would *LOVE* to see the presentation on mobile, I am interested in the others as well.. Will these presentation (slides, notes) become available ? Thanks, GerardM
On 8 February 2011 02:42, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
Greetings all,
I just wanted to give you guys a heads up that both Arthur Richards and I are going to be speaking at http://gnunify.in/ this week in Pune. We have a couple of presentations lined up including
Title: Powering the world’s favorite wiki - Wikipedia Abstract: Mr. Finc will talk about the Wikimedia movement, its history, growth and chapters. He will also talk about Wikimedia’s technical infrastructure and how this top 5 website is run. He will also provide an overview about the software that Wikipedia uses for its websites - Mediawiki.
Talk Title: Mobile@Wikipedia Talk Abstract: An introduction to Wikimedia Mobile Engineering efforts past, present, and future. This talk will cover the current state of Wikipedia mobile development, what’s upcoming and where Wikimedia Foundation is looking for you to contribute.
Talk Title: Hacking Mediawiki Abstract: This talk will provide an introduction on how to write Mediawiki extensions and participate in Mediawiki’s developer community. The session will talk about the essentials of hacking - the inspiration, software, community. It will also walkthrough an overview of Mediawiki, an introduction to features, best-practices in security and scalability of Mediawiki, documentation, and various ways to extend the software. Open Source communities are key to the success of any project. The talk will also discuss various aspects of working in Mediawiki’s open source community successfully - how to communicate, who and where to engage, getting your code accepted, and accessing the right resources.
Talk Title: Drupal + CiviCRM + Wikimedia Foundation = Awesome Talk Abstract: This talk will provide an overview of Drupal, CiviCRM using Wikimedia websites as the case-study. It will cover how Drupal and CiviCRM play an important role at Wikimedia foundation as a CMS and CRM, why these projects are cool, how Wikimedia uses these tools, and contributing back to the open source projects.
The schedule is still coming together so its best to check the website for all updates.
GNUnify will actually have a lot of Wikimedia discussions this year as it is one of their tracks.
For those of you that might not be familiar with Arthur and my own work, we were part of the core team that was responsible for the fundraising infrastructure at Wikimedia. When not fundraising I concentrate on both both mobile and offline Wikimedia projects. Arthur focuses on backend infrastructure and drupal based projects.
We'd love to see any Wikimedians come by! And if you can't certainly feel free to catch me on irc or in email to say hello.
--tomasz _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
On Feb 8, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, I would LOVE to see the presentation on mobile, I am interested in the others as well.. Will these presentation (slides, notes) become available ?
One their done I'll upload them to http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Presentations like all the other tech presentations.
--tomasz
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Feb 8, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, I would LOVE to see the presentation on mobile, I am interested in the others as well.. Will these presentation (slides, notes) become available ?
Seconded!
One their done I'll upload them to http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Presentations like all the other tech presentations.
--tomasz
I'm sure they will be brill, Mr. Finc :-)
SJ
Dear friends,
Tomasz Finc has already informed about their sessions in GNUnify.
Being part of the organising team, sending some more information about the conference and wikipedia track there. (Could not send this info earlier as things were getting crystalised a bit late for this track.)
GNUnify (www.gnunify.in) is a FOSS (Free/open source software) conference happening annually in Pune. It is conducted by PLUG (Pune Linux Users Group www.plug.org.in) and SICSR (Symbiosis Institue of Computer Studies and Research www.symbiosiscomputers.com )
This is the 9th year of GNUnify. The conference is sponsored by Mozilla Corporation. It will be held on 11th and 12th February, 2011, from 9:30am to 5:30pm, at SICSR, Model Colony, Pune.
This year, for the first time, we are going to have a track on Wikipedia !!!
Tomasz Finc and Arthur Richards from the technical team of WMF are coming from US for the conference.
Also, we will have some more sessions on understanding what Wikipedia is, editing, commons, wikipedia in schools, Indic language editing; their problems and solutions and other QA sessions.
All further details of this track will be published soon on the website gnunify.in
You are all invited to join the conference. (Not just for the Wikipedia related sessions but for all other sessions too.)
The conference is free for all. There are no registration fees. Delegate registration is already on. Please register on the website and join us in the conference !!!
For registration and more information about the tracks and schedules, please visit the event website www.gnunify.in
Best regards, -Sudhanwa
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
Greetings all,
I just wanted to give you guys a heads up that both Arthur Richards and I are going to be speaking at http://gnunify.in/ this week in Pune. We have a couple of presentations lined up including
Title: Powering the world’s favorite wiki - Wikipedia Abstract: Mr. Finc will talk about the Wikimedia movement, its history, growth and chapters. He will also talk about Wikimedia’s technical infrastructure and how this top 5 website is run. He will also provide an overview about the software that Wikipedia uses for its websites - Mediawiki.
Talk Title: Mobile@Wikipedia Talk Abstract: An introduction to Wikimedia Mobile Engineering efforts past, present, and future. This talk will cover the current state of Wikipedia mobile development, what’s upcoming and where Wikimedia Foundation is looking for you to contribute.
Talk Title: Hacking Mediawiki Abstract: This talk will provide an introduction on how to write Mediawiki extensions and participate in Mediawiki’s developer community. The session will talk about the essentials of hacking - the inspiration, software, community. It will also walkthrough an overview of Mediawiki, an introduction to features, best-practices in security and scalability of Mediawiki, documentation, and various ways to extend the software. Open Source communities are key to the success of any project. The talk will also discuss various aspects of working in Mediawiki’s open source community successfully - how to communicate, who and where to engage, getting your code accepted, and accessing the right resources.
Talk Title: Drupal + CiviCRM + Wikimedia Foundation = Awesome Talk Abstract: This talk will provide an overview of Drupal, CiviCRM using Wikimedia websites as the case-study. It will cover how Drupal and CiviCRM play an important role at Wikimedia foundation as a CMS and CRM, why these projects are cool, how Wikimedia uses these tools, and contributing back to the open source projects.
The schedule is still coming together so its best to check the website for all updates.
GNUnify will actually have a lot of Wikimedia discussions this year as it is one of their tracks.
For those of you that might not be familiar with Arthur and my own work, we were part of the core team that was responsible for the fundraising infrastructure at Wikimedia. When not fundraising I concentrate on both both mobile and offline Wikimedia projects. Arthur focuses on backend infrastructure and drupal based projects.
We'd love to see any Wikimedians come by! And if you can't certainly feel free to catch me on irc or in email to say hello.
--tomasz _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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