Dear Hackathon attendees,
101 people have filled the registration form of the Wikimedia Hackathon, hurray! This data point two months before the event plus the efficiency of Wikimedia CH allow us to say that participation and logistics are on track.
Now, what about the content?
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Topics
If we are calling this event a Hackathon, the activities driving the schedule must be projects to hack about. If I understood correctly the proposals listed so far, we seem to have only one hacking sprint. We need more!
All the better if these activities have a goal defined, a coordinator, and a URL to document the work before, during, and after the event. A hint about the preferred duration of your activity is also welcome, as it will help shaping the schedule.Many proposals already have some of these elements.
Signing up for the activities you plan to attend will also help everybody defining a better schedule and preparing better sessions.
Thank you!
On 03/04/2014 05:05 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
If I understood correctly the proposals listed so far, we seem to have only one hacking sprint.
It's difficult to classify some of the activities. I, for instance, will set up a 'Migrate to Tool Labs / work on Labs' corner intended to last the entire event. Is that a sprint or a workshop?
IMO, it's a workshop that'll contain a lot of small sprints and a few presentation -- a dev room? :-).
-- Marc
On 03/04/2014 02:30 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
On 03/04/2014 05:05 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
If I understood correctly the proposals listed so far, we seem to have only one hacking sprint.
It's difficult to classify some of the activities. I, for instance, will set up a 'Migrate to Tool Labs / work on Labs' corner intended to last the entire event. Is that a sprint or a workshop?
IMO, it's a workshop that'll contain a lot of small sprints and a few presentation -- a dev room? :-).
Labels are just labels. What matters is the organization of a schedule, since your activity will require time and space, and it will happen at the same time than other activities which may or may not overlap with.
What about scheduling an explicit workshop at the beginning (e.g. one hour with you going through the migration of one project from the Toolserver to Labs) followed by a long sprint consisting of you and other experienced Toolserver / Labs contributors working on migrating projects with whoever else is interested, willing to learn and help.
You will probably get many extra people happy to attend a pre-scheduled workshop and maybe come by and help a couple of hours during the sprint.
I haven't read this topic carefully but I suggest we make a sprint for pywikibot issues (e.g. very important bugs or a bug triage to take care of 200 left uncategorized/unknown importance bug)
I have another idea that someone have a presentation about "how we can help pywikibot" I don't know if others like this idea too
Best
On 3/5/14, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 03/04/2014 02:30 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
On 03/04/2014 05:05 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
If I understood correctly the proposals listed so far, we seem to have only one hacking sprint.
It's difficult to classify some of the activities. I, for instance, will set up a 'Migrate to Tool Labs / work on Labs' corner intended to last the entire event. Is that a sprint or a workshop?
IMO, it's a workshop that'll contain a lot of small sprints and a few presentation -- a dev room? :-).
Labels are just labels. What matters is the organization of a schedule, since your activity will require time and space, and it will happen at the same time than other activities which may or may not overlap with.
What about scheduling an explicit workshop at the beginning (e.g. one hour with you going through the migration of one project from the Toolserver to Labs) followed by a long sprint consisting of you and other experienced Toolserver / Labs contributors working on migrating projects with whoever else is interested, willing to learn and help.
You will probably get many extra people happy to attend a pre-scheduled workshop and maybe come by and help a couple of hours during the sprint.
-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
2014-03-06 13:43 GMT+02:00 Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com:
I have another idea that someone have a presentation about "how we can help pywikibot" I don't know if others like this idea too
Amir, I won't be in Zurich, but I would love to see (and use) such a presentation.
Thanks, Strainu
I'll be there if I can get the visa in time and I love to have a presentation about it but I'm not sure others will like the idea or not
Best
On 3/6/14, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
2014-03-06 13:43 GMT+02:00 Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com:
I have another idea that someone have a presentation about "how we can help pywikibot" I don't know if others like this idea too
Amir, I won't be in Zurich, but I would love to see (and use) such a presentation.
Thanks, Strainu
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On 03/06/2014 04:04 AM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote:
I'll be there if I can get the visa in time and I love to have a presentation about it but I'm not sure others will like the idea or not
The process for anybody in this situation is simple;
# Create a new topic at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Topics
# Mobilize your best contributors to attend the hackathon (deadline for requesting travel sponsorhip: March 16)
# Promote your proposal in your project list and other related spaces like wikitech-l, asking Hackathon participants to add their names to your activity.
If you happen to be a maintainer of the project you want to push (as it is the case of Amir) then you are in a very good position to push this process successfully.
I made this topic: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Topics#How_to_help...
I'll send a note in pywikipedia-l and discuss about how and who want to present at the Hackathon.
Best
On 3/6/14, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 03/06/2014 04:04 AM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote:
I'll be there if I can get the visa in time and I love to have a presentation about it but I'm not sure others will like the idea or not
The process for anybody in this situation is simple;
# Create a new topic at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Topics
# Mobilize your best contributors to attend the hackathon (deadline for requesting travel sponsorhip: March 16)
# Promote your proposal in your project list and other related spaces like wikitech-l, asking Hackathon participants to add their names to your activity.
If you happen to be a maintainer of the project you want to push (as it is the case of Amir) then you are in a very good position to push this process successfully.
-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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