Roan Kattouw wrote: > 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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_12 was the wikimeetup coordination page, for reference. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
