Re: [Wikitech-l] Email for London Hackathon Participants

Hi Lars, All we currently know about the 400 contributors, is that they have registered for the Hackathon and Wikimania. Only 20/400 are registered just for the hackathon. I am planning to send out a survey shorty to everyone who is registered for the hackathon to get a better idea of backgrounds and attendance intentions. Some of them may not have realized they were registering for a developers event. As far as what sessions will be at the hackathon: It all depends on what sessions are proposed by the participants. At https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon you can see already several introductory sessions and tutorials, with a few explicit invitations to non-developers (i.e. "Translathon - Where developers meet translators"). We expect to have diversity of sessions in terms of skills required and formats. We assume participants will have familiarity with software development, design, testing or documentation, and a genuine technical interest. We haven't thought about tutorials about using editor tools. Then again, the hackathon is an unconference-like event, which means that any session with offer, demand, and a slot available in the schedule is possible. See for instance https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Schedule , taking into account that many ad-hoc small activities were not scheduled there, and considering also that we expect a higher percentage of newcomers and power users / non-developers hackathon in London because of the wider Wikimania context. Again, if anyone has anything specific they would like to work on at the Hackathon please add it to the topics section soon: https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon Along with my survey I will be also asking participants to indicate interest in proposed topics. Thanks! Rachel On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote: