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(a)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
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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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