Berlin Hackathon 2012/Retrospective

Meeting goals
Overall, this event met its goals. We'd aimed to:

''bring 100-150 people together, with lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come!''

We had more than a hundred participants, and more than ten of the participants had never been to a WMF hackathon before.

Goals:
 * More outreach to variety of people - aim for 120-130 participants (judging that ~100 came last year): It turns out that more like 80 or 90 people came in 2011, so the 104 people who came in 2012 were a substantial increase. Sumana did outreach to gadgets, templates, bots, and tools developers by posting to mailing lists, individuals' talk pages, the BAG group's page, and so on, a wider variety of outreach than had been done before.  This paid off.
 *  Get Lua training for anyone who wants it: 37 people attended Lua tutorials.
 *  Inform people about ResourceLoader 2 & new Gadgets support, train JS authors: 24 people attended Gadgets tutorials.
 *  Get Labs or Toolserver accounts for anyone who wants them: We encouraged EVERYONE to get Labs/Gerrit accounts prior to or at the event, and at least five participants got Toolserver accounts during the event (possibly more)
 *  Get at least 5 gadgets/tools/templates/bots developers/authors to get into larger Wikimedia community, stay in it 3 months after event: (Sumana has to check this, thinks it worked)
 *  Facilitate chapter tech community: WMDE's Wikidata developers got to collaborate with many WMF and volunteer developers, and French and South American developers who came were interested in getting their chapters and other local Wikimedia communities to host local hackathons in the future.
 * Keep last year's quality of experience while upping attendance: We did up attendance, and the average survey score for the hackathon overall was 4.55 out of 5 (between "Good" and "Very Good").
 * Better social events that help build relationships, facilitate mingling.: The previous year's social events were one dinner and one night of lounging at C-Base. This year we hosted a barbequeue & beer night, offered multiple city walks, and ran a minigolf night.  People liked them.