A hackathon in the uk would be great. My main worry with it would be having enough developers turn up at it, though. There are a lot of German mediawiki developers, which means that the events in Berlin are always successful, but there are a lot fewer devs in the uk. So I suspect the main focus of at least the first hackathon would be introducing people to the code - which then needs a cadre of current developers to lead, teach and assist as they make their first commits.
I'd love to hear thoughts from others about this - particularly from any devs on this list.
Thanks, Mike
On 14 May 2011, at 11:31, Lewis Cawte lewiscawte@googlemail.com wrote:
Hm, I think we should throw a hackathon, I've been watching the talks at the one in Berlin so far, and its quite interesting. I'd show up and would help with some things (not a member of WM-UK though), but its an idea, anyway...
-- Lewis Cawte
On 27/04/11 18:04, steve virgin wrote:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events
Hi Lewis
Answer is 'yes'
The next year's events are starting to be discussed now and input is warmly welcome.
Attached link is a place to keep an eye on as it will show events as they begin to happen. Do get involved if you can, it would be great to meet up with you at one.
Best
Steve
-----Original Message----- From: wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Lewis Cawte Sent: 27 April 2011 17:47 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Other Events
Hi,
I'm not a member of Wikimedia UK (because I can never find the money when I think about joining), but I've noticed a lot of the events are university things or museum stuff, I was wondering, are there any other types of events, for example, I know the Dutch/German chapters run or host the occasional Hack-a-Thon or meetups at other coding related events. Do we do anything other than the GLAM or whatever it is?
-- Lewis Cawte 14 year old Wikimedia, LAMP server owner and follower of MediaWiki development.
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