Technical Community Newsletter/2019/October

Notes on the first issue
Welcome to the first issue of the Wikimedia Technical Community Newsletter!

The Wikimedia Technical Community Newsletter will be published quarterly. It will share highlights and news from the past quarter and information about events coming up in the next quarter.

Features

 * Coolest Tool Award! TBD
 * Wikimedia's Javascript Initialisation on a Budget. Learn more here, And, here!
 * Cloud-VPS Puppetmasters Moved to VMs, thanks to Krenair

What's new?
The Wikimedia Technical Community has been up to a lot of great things this quarter!


 * The 2019 Hackathon in Stockholm had many awesome outcomes!
 * The first Small Wiki toolkits working session was held at Wikimania 2019 in August in Stockholm. Participants worked together to discuss ways to support and strengthen their smaller wiki communities. Learn more.
 * Google Summer of Code 2019 wrapped up for the year. Wikimedia mentors partnered with mentees from around the globe to support 15 technical projects.
 * Outreachy Round 18 concluded. Outreachy is an internship program that seeks to support underrepresented groups in technology. This round, three interns participated on Round 18 projects that helped to improve the overall quality of a variety of Wikimedia technical projects.
 * The first round of Google Season of the Docs entered its Doc Development phase. The program pairs technical writing interns with open source technology projects. This year's GSoD intern is focused on improving resources for technical documentarians and videographers working on Wikimedia projects.
 * Wikimedia hosted three, hour long technical talks. The talks covered a wide range of topics and provided valuable information for the technical community.

Wikimedia

 * October 4-6, 2019: WikiCon Wuppertal
 * November 8-11, 2019: Wikiconference North America
 * October 4-6, 2019: WikiArabia
 * October 11-13,2019: Wikimedia CEE Meeting
 * October 25-26, 2019: WikidataCon 2019
 * November 12-15, 2019: Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019
 * November 23, 2019: Česká Wikikonference

Free and Open Source
North America
 * October 13-15, 2019: All Things Open is a "technology conference focusing on the tools, processes and people making open source possible.
 * November 6-8, 2019: Aspiration Summit this "collaborative three-day gathering is designed for everyone from grassroots activists to software developers, bringing together participants from around the world to share knowledge, build relationships, and collectively envision the future of free and open technology to support social change."
 * November 18-21, 2019: KubeCon | CloudnativeCon North America 2019

Get involved!

 * Do you have news you'd like to share with the technical community? Leave a note on the discussion page!
 * Have you been working on a cool tool or Wikimedia technical project? Are you interested in sharing what you know with others in the technical community? Consider giving a technical talk.
 * Are you a interested in writing better technical documentation? Join the Friends of the Docs!
 * Would you like to mentor others in the open source movement? Consider applying to be a mentor for Outreachy Round 19.