Hi
I have learned from one of the organizers of Wikimania that they are not planning to film the Hackathon sessions. Furthermore, it was suggested that the WMF orgenisers take care of this issue if though consider it a high priority!
I fear that not putting these materials online will be a major setback for the developer community. I, and other refer to these lectures throughout the year. They also contain much information not available online.
Also some of the recent coverage from Berlin - is of rather dubious quality. (Not the lecture - the video coverage) I have reviewed the lua lectures many time while I converting them into a MediaWiki Lua tutorial (currently hosted on meta within the scope of a larger educational project). I can say that in this case there is about 5 to 10 times more (MediaWiki) specific materials in the lecture than there is online elsewhere but that it difficult to understand due to sound issues.
I hope this matter can be resolved in time for the sake of the numerous volunteer developers who will not be able to attend this event.
Thanks!
Oren Bochman Mediawiki Lead of Search
-----Original Message----- From: wikitext-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitext-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sumana Harihareswara Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 6:51 AM To: labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org; analytics@lists.wikimedia.org; toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list; mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikitext-l; wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org; events@lists.openhatch.org; (Public) People co-organizing OpenHatch+Wikimiedia outreach Subject: Re: [Wikitext-l] Upcoming hackathon for experts AND newbies: Washington, DC, USA July 10-11
On 06/19/2012 03:41 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
This is a reminder that you're invited to the pre-Wikimania hackathon, 10-11 July in Washington, DC, USA:
https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon
In order to come, you have to register for the Wikimania conference:
https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration
(Unfortunately, the period for requesting scholarships is now over.)
At the hackathon, we'll have trainings and projects for novices, and we welcome creators of all Wikimedia technologies -- MediaWiki, gadgets, bots, mobile apps, you name it -- to hack on stuff together and teach each other.
Hope to see you!
Actually, you don't have to register for Wikimania to come to the hackathon. The registration fee is only required for the main conference days; everyone is welcome to come to the hackathon days and unconference for free. So tell your DC friends to sign up at https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon and come!
-- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation
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