Hi Arjuna,

We were really happy with the turnout and super excited that there was so much interest from the dev community in India. We definitely want to find ways to support and grow the community and do it again in the near future, working hand-in-hand with the local Wikipedians on this. Yes, it was the first one we did in India (and we kind of put it together at the last minute) there's always room for improvement!

Also, if anybody is particular interested in mobile please contribute to the meta page:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects

and more info on research, as it particularly applies to India can be found here (there is a link from the mobile project page from meta):

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile/Research

or if you don't know where to go with your feedback or ideas you can start here:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mobile_Projects

Cheers,

Kul

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunaraoc@gmail.com wrote:

Hi, Thanks Kul for the update. I am glad to see the achievments. Congratulations  to all the participants. I too wanted to join but  could not because it was done in parallel with separate registration process. Hope we can improve  next time so that you have real Wikipedians user perspective  as well.

Cheers Arjun

On Nov 30, 2011 3:45 AM, "Kul Wadhwa" kwadhwa@wikimedia.org wrote:

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Crosspost to the Wikimedia India Mailing list.

--Kul

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We recently completed a Hackathon in India where the themes were:

• localization
• mobile
• offline

In summary, over one weekend more than 50 volunteers from many parts of India added their hard work and insights to the technical foundation of Wikipedia. In the mobile area alone, volunteers contributed to 17 features, as listed here (features that were worked on are marked with an "H"):

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/features#India_Hackathon

We also got support and input from most of the major mobile operators in India about how to make our user experience better. Free access to Wikipedia is moving forward on a number of fronts, as we identified several forms of collaboration, not just in the form of Wikipedia Zero. For example, there seems to be widespread interest in using an RSS feed of the Article of the Day, and the top 5 languages in India are important.

This was our first hackathon in India and all in all, it was a resounding success.

For those of you who were at the event, many thanks and congratulations for your achievements in such a short period of time! We certainly hope you continue to stay involved and continue to contribute.

IRC is a good way for developers to stay in touch. Join wikimedia-mobile on irc.freenode.net.

Regards, Phil

-- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810

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