If you're interested in Wikimedia's infrastructure, or in making it
easier to develop MediaWiki and extensions, gadgets, and tools, please
come to the Wikimedia and MediaWiki hackathon happening 14-16 October in
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon
We're getting together a wide variety of contributors -- including
tool, extension, and gadget writers -- to participate, give feedback,
test, and hack together.
At the event, MediaWiki developers and Wikimedia operations engineers
will be working on Wikimedia's gadgets/extensions/tools support,
authorization/authentication strategy, dev-ops virtualization, and
general training and hacking. And we'll improve and discuss the
Wikimedia Labs projects infrastructure
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs
and other stuff that makes it easier for anyone to supercharge Wikimedia
with awesomeness.
The event is open to anyone who wants to come and contribute.
If you can make it to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 14-16 October 2011,
we'd love to have you. Please add your name to the attendees list:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon#Attendees
(And please spread the word!)
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
P.S. If the only way that you can come to this event is with financial
assistance, please let me know. I can't promise anything but I can at
least put in the request. (If you've already emailed me about that, no
need to repeat.)