Thanks for all your great responses and tips! I'm really looking forward to
it.
See you there!
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)
"Tim Starling" <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote in message
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On 21/07/14 00:24, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
On 07/19/2014 05:47 AM, Mark Clements (HappyDog)
wrote:
I've never been to a hackathon before! What
should I expect? Are any
of you guys coming?
Hackathons tend to cover the range from "complete newbie" to
"Brion";
it's the meeting place for everyone who are involved - or want to get
involved - in everything related to technical aspects of
Mediawiki/Wikimedia; from core to language to tools.
It will be big, maybe 345 people. If previous Wikimanias are a useful
guide, many of the people will be locals who have only a passing
interest in MediaWiki, and were just looking for a cheap tech
conference to go to. Local students who know nothing about MediaWiki
will walk up to you and shake your hand, while some active, long-term
developers will sit in a corner by themselves staring at their laptops.
Reading name badges is useful, especially if the font is large enough
that it can be read without seeming intrusive. Hopefully we will have
a wikified attendence list. If you know that someone is present who
you want to talk to, you can ask someone to point them out to you.
My advice is to concentrate on the things you can't do at home. Meet
people, get to know them, build a rapport. Listen to their ideas, get
inspired, share your own ideas in return. Don't expect to write a
significant amount of code.
I will be there.
-- Tim Starling
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