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.)