Roan Kattouw wrote:
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:25 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
It might be nice to couple this with a New Orleans wikimeetup. I have no idea if New Orleans has meetups already, but the D.C. hackathon coupled with a meetup and it seemed to work out pretty well. Social interaction and direct user contact is never a bad thing for developers. ;-)
Context: at last year's D.C. hackathon, we joined the D.C. meetup on Saturday night. Basically, the meetup was a dinner at a restaurant with ~10 local Wikimedians, and we kind of took over the whole thing with ~25 developers :D
I second this notion, meeting up with local Wikimedians in some way, maybe even inviting them to hang around the venue even if they're not coders, sounds like a great idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_12 was the wikimeetup coordination page, for reference.
MZMcBride