San Francisco Hackathon January 2012/Messaging

One sentence version
Build a Wikipedia app & meet the Wikimedia dev team: Register for Wikipedia's first hackathon in San Francisco, Jan 20-22.

One paragraph version
If you're a smart developer or designer and want to build an application on top of Wikipedia, or using Wikipedia content, come to our hackathon in San Francisco (January 20-22 at pariSoma). It's a free event put on by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that runs Wikipedia. Wikimedia's senior coders will join forces with new developers to build applications running in Wikipedia itself, on mobile devices, or based on Wikipedia's content and data. Join us Friday night for drinks and conversations, and get ready for a weekend of coding. Food and drinks provided. :-)

Two paragraph version
If you're a smart developer or designer and want to build an application on top of Wikipedia, or using Wikipedia content, participate in our hackathon in San Francisco (January 20-22 at pariSoma). We'll bring together Wikipedia's senior coders with new developers to build applications running in Wikipedia itself, on mobile devices, or based on Wikipedia's content and data.

This is a free event put on by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that runs Wikipedia. You'll get a brief overview of all the key technologies you need, and then you'll have a weekend to build something amazing and make it open source. At the end, show it off and take the next step to get it running on our servers. Join us Friday night for drinks and conversations, and get ready for a weekend of coding. Food and drinks provided. :-)