Berlin Hackathon 2012

All Wikimedia community developers and sysadmins are invited to Berlin Hackathon 2012 to collaborate and share ideas.


 * MediaWiki & extensions developers
 * MediaWiki systems administrators
 * Toolserver users
 * Gadgets makers
 * Bots maintainers
 * Template writers
 * Users of Wikimedia bigdata

You'll work on whatever project excites you. And you'll have opportunities to learn about and hack on:
 * ResourceLoader 2 and the Gadgets rewrite
 * Lua scripting (for templates)
 * Wikimedia Germany's Wikidata initiative and other structured data projects

This event falls under the Wikimedia Foundation Friendly space policy and participants are expected to follow it.

Topics, Goals, & Outcomes
This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, and socialising.

Our goals for the event are 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!

Some financial assistance will be available -- more details soon.

Goals:
 * More outreach to variety of people - aim for 120-130 participants (judging that ~100 came last year)
 * Get Lua training for anyone who wants it
 * Inform people about ResourceLoader 2 & new Gadgets support, train JS authors
 * Get Labs or Toolserver accounts for anyone who wants them
 * Get at least 5 gadgets/tools/templates/bots developers/authors to get into larger Wikimedia community, stay in it 3 months after event
 * Facilitate chapter tech community
 * Keep last year's quality of experience while upping attendance
 * Better social events that help build relationships, facilitate mingling.



As recorded early in the event, some goals for the event: Stretch Goals - if we make these, we'll be thrilled

Here are the things we aim to focus on at the hackathon:


 * Lua: teaching people Lua, overhauling some templates
 * Gadgets 2.0: teaching people how to use ResourceLoader, moving some gadgets into the new central repository and refactoring them to use RL
 * Wikidata: making design decisions and building

Venue
Still deciding.

Schedule
This is a pretty loose event; mainly people collaborate ad-hoc.

Friday

 * 5pm onwards: general hacking

Saturday

 * 10am onwards: general hacking
 * conference room, morning: hands-on tutorials on Lua and on Gadgets 2.0
 * conference room, afternoon: short presentations

Sunday

 * 10am onwards: general hacking

Attendees
CAUTION - We will have a real registration form starting (we hope) on Friday 16 March, so putting your name in this list does NOT register you for the event! But if you want to signal to other people that you're coming, go ahead. You might also enjoy using the unofficial Lanyrd service to connect with other attendees - optional!].


 * Jeroen De Dauw - structured data (WikiData & SMW)
 * Aude
 * Wikinaut - discussing Extension:OpenID, open e-mail notification issues and more
 * SVG - representing the free wiki hoster Wikiunity and discussing about wiki farms
 * Judytuna - coming from WPSFHack!
 * Bináris (pywikipediabot developer) — listening. Bináristalk 09:57, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * TheDJ
 * Multichill
 * Krinkle
 * Smihael (most likely; interface tweaks for easier editing of Wikisource)
 * Adam Wight Read/Write Offline
 * OrenBochman
 * Kolossos (Maps/OpenStreetMap)
 * DanielRenfro (going to try to make it...pretty busy in June)
 * Saper I'd like to refactor schema handling for various databases

Volunteers

 * SVG - I could be there a day earlier and help at several things that need to be done
 * TParis - I have some experience planning these sort of events.

Accommodation
All hotels are also in walking distance of many city attractions.

Contact

 * Mail: User:Sumanah via sumanah@undefinedwikimedia.org
 * Panic Phone for emergencies:
 * Program coordination: Sumana Harihareswara <[mailto:sumanah.AT.wikimedia.org sumanah AT wikimedia.org]>
 * Logistics: Nicole Ebber <[mailto:nicole.ebber.AT.wikimedia.de nicole.ebber AT wikimedia.de]>
 * Assistant: Sumana Harihareswara <[mailto:sumanah.AT.wikimedia.org sumanah AT wikimedia.org]>