User:OrenBochman/HunSig

=Budpaest WikiMedia R&D Sig=

Goals

 * 1) Create a live forum to advance and communicate R&D issues related to MediaWiki.
 * 2) Create a gateway for new developers and researches to be mentored and interact with the community.


 * 1) First meeting between Berlin and Wikimania.

Proposal

 * Create a Special Interst Group on WikiMedia related reseach techniques and development options.
 * Discuss recent advances in research.
 * Workshops on development tools.
 * Tutorials on development of:
 * Robots in Java & Python.
 * User Scripts and Gadgets.
 * Extensions in PHP.

Desseminte

 * Online
 * Hungrian Mailing List
 * Hungrian Chapter
 * MediaWiki
 * Meta
 * Institutions
 * Universities
 * Computer Science and Information Science.
 * Social Netwok and CSCW researchers.
 * Computational Linguistics.
 * IT companies
 * Large Companies with resource to support the Sig (Sponsers).

Logistics

 * SIG should aim for 6-20 members initialy.
 * Meetings will be held every other week - though frequency can change depending on groups size.
 * Speakers will coordinate online a month before.
 * Members will coordinate online as well about a week before the meetings
 * Location initaly at my confrence room but roaming may be good as well - locations will be coordinated online as well.