A hackathon in the uk would be great. My main worry with it would be having enough developers turn up at it, though. There are a lot of German mediawiki developers, which means that the events in Berlin are always successful, but there are a lot fewer devs in the uk. So I suspect the main focus of at least the first hackathon would be introducing people to the code - which then needs a cadre of current developers to lead, teach and assist as they make their first commits.
I'd love to hear thoughts from others about this - particularly from any devs on this list. Thanks, Mike On 14 May 2011, at 11:31, Lewis Cawte <lewisca...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hm, I think we should throw a hackathon, I've been watching the talks at > the one in Berlin so far, and its quite interesting. I'd show up and > would help with some things (not a member of WM-UK though), but its an > idea, anyway... > > -- Lewis Cawte > > On 27/04/11 18:04, steve virgin wrote: >> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events >> >> >> Hi Lewis >> >> Answer is 'yes' >> >> The next year's events are starting to be discussed now and input is warmly >> welcome. >> >> Attached link is a place to keep an eye on as it will show events as they >> begin to happen. Do get involved if you can, it would be great to meet up >> with you at one. >> >> Best >> >> Steve >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org >> [mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Lewis Cawte >> Sent: 27 April 2011 17:47 >> To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Other Events >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm not a member of Wikimedia UK (because I can never find the money >> when I think about joining), but I've noticed a lot of the events are >> university things or museum stuff, I was wondering, are there any other >> types of events, for example, I know the Dutch/German chapters run or >> host the occasional Hack-a-Thon or meetups at other coding related >> events. Do we do anything other than the GLAM or whatever it is? >> >> -- Lewis Cawte >> 14 year old Wikimedia, LAMP server owner and follower of MediaWiki >> development. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
