Wow, fantastic -- I love this model for online facilitation + local gatherings. Any sort of available/recommended hackathon event-kit?
On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 12:03 AM Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > (re-sending on behalf of Haley Lepp) > > Hello everyone! > > Your friendly neighborhood Hackathon committee is thrilled to announce the > 2022 Global Wikimedia Hackathon! We invite you to join us for three days of > collaborating, interactive sessions, and social fun from May 20-May 22. > The Hackathon will be held online and there will be grants available to > support local in-person meetups around the world. You can find more > information about this on our MediaWiki.org page > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022>, which will > continue to grow over the next few weeks. For more details, read below. > > Who: The Hackathon is for anyone who contributes (or wants to contribute > to) to Wikimedia’s technical areas - as code creators, maintainers, > translators, designers, technical writers and other technical roles. You > can come with a project in mind, join an existing project, or create > something new with others. The choice is yours! Newcomers are welcome. > > We will send out more information on how to schedule a session in the > program soon. You can also add yourself to the participants list > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Participants>, > and mention if you would like to help with tasks such as facilitation or > welcoming newcomers. There will be scholarship stipends available- please > stay tuned for more information. > > What: A Wikimedia Hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons> is > a space for the technical community to come together and work together on > technical projects, learn from each other, and make new friends. > > When: May 20-May 22. The schedule will be announced shortly. We are > trying to plan events so that people in all time zones can participate > comfortably. There will be core hours several times a day when most events > will occur, and online social and hacking spaces open 24 hours a day > throughout the three days. > > Where: The Hackathon will primarily be held online. However, very soon we > will share an application for local affiliates to apply for grants to host > in-person local meetups. Meetups can be anything from social gatherings > with food, to a party for watching the opening or closing ceremony, to a > pre-event workshop, to renting a venue where people can participate > together in the online event. Grants can range from 500-5000 USD. Stay > tuned for more information! > > How (can you help)?: > > 1. > > We are seeking another committee member! The commitment is around 3 > hours per week. If you are interested, please contact > hl...@wikimedia.org > 2. > > We have an ideas page. > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022>What are > you interested in? What would you like to see or do in this year’s > hackathon? Please share your ideas with everyone! This is a community > Hackathon and we will work together to put on a great event. > 3. > > Do you have any accessibility or translation requests? Please contact > hl...@wikimedia.org > > > Cheers, > > Your Hackathon Committee > > Andre <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AKlapper_(WMF)> > > Haley <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:HLepp_(WMF)> > > Jay <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345> > > Lucas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister> > > Marios <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Magioladitis> > > Neslihan <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Flanoz> > > Selene > <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:SYang_(WMF)&action=edit&redlink=1> > > > _______________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/NTSTK5GDEYQ75FX5C46TCFS3ZGMWZCMA/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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