There will be a number of Individual Engagement Grants Committee members attending Wikimania who would be happy to discuss all kinds of ideas with people and hopefully make connections with IdeaLab or other appropriate resources. Siko, Quimm or other IEGCom people may want to add their thoughts here.
Pine On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 21/07/14 00:24, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: > > On 07/19/2014 05:47 AM, Mark Clements (HappyDog) wrote: > >> I've never been to a hackathon before! What should I expect? Are any > >> of you guys coming? > > > > Hackathons tend to cover the range from "complete newbie" to "Brion"; > > it's the meeting place for everyone who are involved - or want to get > > involved - in everything related to technical aspects of > > Mediawiki/Wikimedia; from core to language to tools. > > It will be big, maybe 345 people. If previous Wikimanias are a useful > guide, many of the people will be locals who have only a passing > interest in MediaWiki, and were just looking for a cheap tech > conference to go to. Local students who know nothing about MediaWiki > will walk up to you and shake your hand, while some active, long-term > developers will sit in a corner by themselves staring at their laptops. > > Reading name badges is useful, especially if the font is large enough > that it can be read without seeming intrusive. Hopefully we will have > a wikified attendence list. If you know that someone is present who > you want to talk to, you can ask someone to point them out to you. > > My advice is to concentrate on the things you can't do at home. Meet > people, get to know them, build a rapport. Listen to their ideas, get > inspired, share your own ideas in return. Don't expect to write a > significant amount of code. > > I will be there. > > -- Tim Starling > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
