WMF has started doing these outreach-focused meetups regularly: http://www.meetup.com/Wikipedia-Engineering-Meetup/
Tech presentations by WMF. Live stream happening right now, recording later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBmKYWJJJ94
A bit more background:
* The decision to broadcast this meeting via Hangout was made at the last minute, so sorry for the short notice. Accordingly we've also not set up an IRC backchannel for this one (maybe next time, if it makes sense - these are more presentation-focused).
* This is the second time we've done this, and we've not yet made a final decision about frequency.
* The motivation for organizing these meetups in SF is to be visible to the local technology community, looking for opportunities to connect with potential volunteers and hires.
The presentations this time around: - i18n Project Milkshake - jQuery.i18n - Alolita Sharma - Parsoid - Mark "Traceur" Holmquist & Gabriel Wicke - Account creation UX - S Page - Page Curation - Ryan Kaldari - Admin tools - Chris Steip - Vagrant - Ori Livneh
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Video on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Engineering_Meetup-2012-10...
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