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