Wikimedia Developer Summit/2017/Remote Participation



The Wikimedia Developer Summit will be hosted in San Francisco on January 9-11, 2017. Registration is now closed with 172 participants, but remote participation is still possible for anyone interested.

Some selected sessions from Monday, January 9th, and Tuesday, January 10th will be live-streamed between 11:20 am - 5:30 pm PST.

Before the summit

 * If you are planning on participating remotely, please fill out the sign-up form. As we get closer to the event; we’ll send you event reminders and instructions on how to participate remotely.
 * Choose the session you are interested in from the Program Schedule. Go to the associated Phabricator task and join the discussion by commenting on the task.

During the summit

 * View a live broadcast via YouTube, participate in the discussion via IRC, and ask questions directly to the speakers. Links will be posted on the Program Schedule very soon!
 * Hack on projects during the Get Stuff Done Day on Wednesday. Hang out on IRC (#wmhack) and offer your skill-sets or help answer questions!
 * Set up Phabricator to notify you when tasks in your interest areas are updated. You can stay involved in the discussions and and interact directly with session leaders and participants.
 * Spend time with us on IRC in channel #wmhack. You will be able to contact event organizers and remote participant advocates who have volunteered to help keep you connected throughout the event.

IRC details
Each streaming session will have one of the two channels below dedicated to it. This information will be on the program.
 * Main IRC Channel & Get Stuff Done Day channel: #wmhack
 * Secondary IRC Channel: #wikimedia-tech

Remote Participant Advocates
(other remote participant advocates who will be in-persona at the Summit, please sign up above!)

After the summit

 * Share how the remote experience was for you by filling out a short survey form that you'll receive after the event.
 * Continue to follow and discuss topics of interest on Phabricator
 * Follow Wikimedia mailing list wikitech-l for updates on everything related to the technical side of Wikimedia including tech talks and future events.

Interested Attendees

 * 1) Felipe Schenone
 * 2) Anirudh S
 * 3) Senay
 * 4) Shivaram AC
 * hmlarson
 * 1) Andra Waagmeester
 * 2) Tony Thomas
 * 3) Vrunda Gadesha
 * 4) Henrique Andrade
 * 5) Andrei Cipu
 * 6) Zhou Zhou
 * 7) Isarra
 * 8) Gilles Dubuc
 * 9) Apoorva Bhalla
 * 10) Srijan Agarwal
 * 11) Tobias Schönberg
 * 12) Afroz Ahamad
 * 13) enigmaeth
 * 14) Saptak Sengupta
 * 15) Srikar Kashyap Pulipaka