1,6 days before the start of the Wikimania Hackathon... #impatient
If you are planning to attend, there is something simple that you can still do. Please go to
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon#Topics
and leave your signature in the sessions that you wish to attend. It's pretty straightforward and requires no commitment. Do it now!
Why is this useful?
1. The sessions with a critical mass of signatures will be featured at the all-hands session opening the hackathon. We will call the promoters of each of these sessions and they will pitch their intentions and goals. This, in turn, might get them some more participants.
2. Having an approximate idea of the relative interest of each session will help everybody scheduling in rooms with appropriate size. Note that most of the scheduling will happen during and after this opening session. We have pre-scheduled just a few exceptions: sessions focusing on new contributors and sessions requiring the participation of remotes or other people with busy agendas.
In other words, by adding your signatures now you are already starting to shape the Wikimania Hackathon program.
See you soon!