I know of 1 developer in the UK, who is currently in Berlin, and I'd hope to have commit by then. One thing I have noticed, is that a lot of the developers there, are WMF staff/contractors from all over the place that have flown in, so it'd be interesting to see what the deal is with that... (I know Tim Starling, the release manager has probably flown in from Australia). It'd also be chance for British Wikimedians to talk to the developers, share some opinions face to face, and for people to do talks on general WM-UK stuff if they wanted to...
-- Lewis Cawte On 14/05/11 11:41, Mike Peel wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
