I don't suppose any of the people expressing interest in this thread would be interested in taking a lead in organising something?

I can definitely see the Board agreeing to support something like this - financially and otherwise as required - but far easier to do if there is a volunteer who isn't on the Board who can scope it, find times, venues and so on.

Chris



On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Richard Farmbrough <richard@farmbrough.co.uk> wrote:
I'd appreciate such an event, there is more hacking than PHP hacking:

* javascript
* css
* templating
* bot coding
* regexen
* category hacking ?
* borging

On 17/05/2011 13:03, Gordon Joly wrote:
> On 14/05/2011 11:41, Mike Peel wrote:
>> I'd love to hear thoughts from others about this - particularly from any devs on this list.
>>
> I am not a developer, but I do get my hands dirty with Mediawiki
> (extensions and now "widgets"). At present, I would to extend the
> OpenSteetMap Widget for Mediawiki... and I would really like a chance to
> hang out with develeoper, Developers, DEVELOPERS!!!! But I am not a
> person who write large chunks of code...
>
> Gordo
>
>


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