Same here; I've be happy to consider attending if we got a few people together.
Tom On 13 August 2011 11:38, Harry Burt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Lewis, > > I'd be really interested in attending a UK hackathon. I'm a bot developer, > Toolserver tool operator, and occasional MediaWiki hacker. > > That said, the dates would be really important to me. It's either got to be > a weekend in September (too close) or some time in December. Sorry. > > Anyway, best of luck with the whole initiative. > > Harry (User:Jarry1250) > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Lewis Cawte <[email protected]>wrote: > >> ** >> Hi all >> >> Right, I'm not going to bore you with the long back story of this, but I >> was reading about the recently announced New Orleans hackathon, and as I >> normally do when I can't get to an event because its abroad or whatever, I >> go onto IRC and do my normal whiney thing (which I really hate myself for). >> But anyway, I got talking with 'sumanah, who is the Volunteer Development >> Coordinator at the Wikimedia Foundation (I guess that makes hackathons and >> stuff part of her job), but she suggested that if I can't get to these, why >> don't I organise my own... >> >> So anyway, then we got talking about some stuff, and we decided that it >> would be best, especially for my first event not necessarily worry about >> international developers and participants as much, and that I should focus >> the event locally. >> >> A few of the main hurdles with me not being able to get to the other >> hackathons are that my age, I'm 14 (15 in early September), so it makes >> finding a simple flight or whatever harder to find (because my parents don't >> have passports, and would not be able to afford coming with me, or finding >> something else to do), and cash to pay for hotel room and travel is also a >> problem. These problems also kind of apply to me running a hackathon, and a >> few solutions that came up were that 1, I hold it somewhere in Brighton, or >> somewhere rather close, and 2, that I contact my local chapter (if >> memberships a problem for no chapter support, I'll get the application in >> for the next meeting). >> >> And basicly I need to know, >> >> - How many of you would be interested in coming to a MediaWiki >> Hackathon, will be before Christmas this year, which would last a day or >> two, depending on the level of support and interest we get. There may be >> an >> opportunity for a chapter/GLAM/board meetup depending on >> time/venue/interest, but I still need to find out the relevant information >> before that can be arranged fully. I plan to cross post an announcement to >> - What support I can get from the chapter, I don't have a lot of >> money, and I don't get a lot either, if anything, how much would the >> chapter >> be willing to put into this event. >> - Would anyone interested be willing to pay a small fee to attend, >> like £5/10 a day? This has yet to be decided but it would help especially >> if >> the chapter doesn't have much money it can spare... >> - How many MediaWiki developers, toolserver users (not toolserver >> tools users, but people that have their own tools/bots on toolserver) do >> we >> have here, because I personally don't know of that many, but it'd be nice >> if >> we could have some kind of workshop thing or mentoring program, because if >> we don't have a few, we're going to have a lot of bored people sitting in >> a >> room for a couple of days. I've spoken to a few of the other developers in >> #mediawiki, and I know one or two people that have said they would be >> happy >> to travel into the UK if I can get one organised and run by Christmas... >> - Deputy Event manager like person. As I've said, I'll be 15 when >> this happens, and I'm not comfortable running this by myself, or booking >> stuff in my name... or being the emergency contact on the time of the >> event, >> mainly because I'm a stupidly heavy sleeper. I am happy, however to go to >> the event, do some speaking, go shopping or order shopping for snacks, >> work >> out transport routes and stuff, and I'll go along with someone to visit >> the >> venue if need be... >> >> Oh yeah, and if anyone doesn't know what a hackathon is, I've probably >> left it a bit late to explain, but its a meetup with a few talks and a lot >> of coding and bug fixing (and for this one, specifically MediaWiki related >> tools (so toolserver, pybot etc as well)). >> >> Hope I haven't forgotten anything, >> -- Lewis Cawte >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > >
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