On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:25 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > It might be nice to couple this with a New Orleans wikimeetup. I have no > idea if New Orleans has meetups already, but the D.C. hackathon coupled with > a meetup and it seemed to work out pretty well. Social interaction and > direct user contact is never a bad thing for developers. ;-) > Context: at last year's D.C. hackathon, we joined the D.C. meetup on Saturday night. Basically, the meetup was a dinner at a restaurant with ~10 local Wikimedians, and we kind of took over the whole thing with ~25 developers :D
I second this notion, meeting up with local Wikimedians in some way, maybe even inviting them to hang around the venue even if they're not coders, sounds like a great idea. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
