[X-post]Mediawiki Hackathon - Nov 19-20 - Mumbai

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

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

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011 has all the details. You could register there.

Thanks,

Srikanth L