Next month: Museum Computer Network http://www.mcn.edu/mcn-2011-atlanta 16-19 Nov, Atlanta. Wikimedians there will present about mobile, OpenStreetMap, Commons, uploading, and other museum-related issues. Wikimedian Lori Phillips will attend and would love for Wikimedia developers to come too, because outreach people who concentrate on relationships and content will need help discussing the tech side of MediaWiki-museum integration. Attendees will include "the tech and IT professionals in museums who can make these cross-platform integrations really work in their museums." More info at https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:HstryQT/MCN .

Also happening next month -- if you're going, please see below:

* https://festival.mozilla.org/ Mozilla Festival, 4-6 November, London (a few Wikimedians & MediaWiki developers are going) * http://openfest.org/english/ OpenFest, Nov 5-6, Bulgaria * http://www.t-dose.org/ Technical Dutch Open Source Event, Nov 5-6, Fontys University of Applied Science in Eindhoven * http://fscons.org/ Free Society Conference & Nordic Summit, Nov 11-13, Sweden * http://sc11.supercomputing.org/?pg=papers.html SC11 (high performance computing), Nov 12-18, Seattle * http://foswiki.org/Community/FoswikiCamp2011 Foswiki Camp, Nov 18-20, CERN

If you are going to one of those and you'd like Wikimedia stickers or buttons to pass out, please let me know. And here's a leaflet you can print and give out to encourage people to contribute to MediaWiki:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki_flyer_20110725-1.pdf Editable version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki_flyer_20110725-1.svg

A longer list of things tech volunteers can do -- customize this & print it out to take with you: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/TechVolunteersCanDo

Also, if you'd like to teach a short "How to customize/hack MediaWiki" workshop at some event, look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker/Workshop -- or ask RobLa for the lightning talk he gave at ZendCon.