NOLA Hackathon 2011

The New Orleans Hackathon 2011 is an opportunity for MediaWiki developers and Wikimedia operations engineers to come together to work on advancing Wikimedia's tools and infrastructure, focusing on Wikimedia Labs (starting with the dev-ops virtualization cluster), and to train and to squash bugs.

The theme of this event: "the infrastructure of innovation". We're going to improve and discuss the Wikimedia Labs projects infrastructure and other stuff that makes it easier for anyone to supercharge Wikimedia with awesomeness. We're going to work on our gadgets/extensions/tools support, authorization/authentication strategy, dev-ops virtualization, and general training and hacking.

It's mostly going to be dev sprints and bugsmashing, with some discussion and workshops. The event is open to anyone who wants to come and contribute, and is an opportunity to spend time with senior MediaWiki developers & ops engineers, write beautiful code, and learn about the latest developments.

This event will occur in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 14-16 October 2011.

Venue
Launch Pad, a collaborative workspace in New Orleans.

Accommodation, directions and information
(to come)

Schedule
Friday evening to Sunday afternoon. Other than that, undecided.

Attendees

 * Ryan Lane
 * Sumana Harihareswara
 * Brion Vibber
 * Mark Mims
 * Rob Halsell
 * Add your name here if you're intending to come!

Topics
Here are the things we want to focus on at the hackathon:


 * Wikimedia Labs (sandbox environment for developers and operations)
 * Code review/code standards training
 * Bugsmash
 * Getting independent MediaWiki vendors to submit their patches upstream
 * Apache logs bug hunt-n-fix sprint
 * OpenStack Swift sprint
 * authorization & authentication, such as OpenID/oAuth
 * Next-generation Gadgets planning
 * Add your idea here!

Contact

 * mail:
 * Panic Phone for emergencies: (only during the event)
 * Programme coordination:
 * Logistics: Ryan Lane
 * Assistant: