Hi all,
While a more formal announcement will come shortly after finalizing
logistics, this is a early heads up for people who want to block calendars /
tickets. Mediawiki & Wikipedia hackathon[1] is being planned[2] on November
19,20 at Mumbai as a parallel event to the WikiConference India[3] . If you
are a PHP developer interested in contributing, there will be "Introductory
mediawiki sessions", bug triages. Even if you aren't into PHP, there is much
more you could learn / contribute on many other technologies behind
Wikimedia properties along with WMF(Mediawiki) developers who will be
attending the hackathon.
[OT] The *WikiConference India 2011* is the first conference of its kind
being held in India and is intended to become an annual national flagship
event for Wikipedia/Wikimedia in the country. It is meant to provide a
common platform for all Indian Wikimedians to meet and share their views,
discuss challenges and exchange useful tips, best practices and other
information.
There are also some technical talks[4] being planned at Conference too.
Conference requires a paid registration which is open[5], while hackathon
will be free event needing registrations which needs be confirmed and will
open up soon.
[1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/25/india-hackathon-2011/
[2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011
[4]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Submissions_Review#Technology_Track
[5] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Registration
Feel free to spread the word across other developer lists.
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Regards
Srikanth.L
