Hello! The 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon Committee and the WMF Developer Relations team are very pleased to announce that Vienna, Austria has been chosen for the location of the 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon. The unconfirmed but likely dates for the hackathon are 19-21 May, 2017.
WMAT and the WMF Developer Relations team will be partnering to organize and run the hackathon. For now, you can find more details here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127050 Eventually we will update the mediawiki page with more event information: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017 To follow planning progress you can follow the following two projects on Phabricator after they are created Wikimedia-Hackathon-2017 and Wikimedia-Hackathon-2017-Organization For information on the decision process that was followed please check here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/2017_Decision_Process https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#Hackathon_location_decision_process_for_2017 If you have any questions about or suggestions for changes in the decision process please either email me or comment here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124260. Hope to see many of you in Jerusalem and again in Vienna! Rachel Farrand Engineering Events Developer Relations (team) Technical Collaboration (group) Community Engagement (department) Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Rachel Farrand <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > Is your organization interested in hosting and co-organizing the 2017 > Wikimedia Hackathon? We are looking for proposals! > > There is a whole lot of new information available about hackathons, if you > see anything missing or that needs to be clarified let me know. > > Specific to the 2017 Hackathon: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/2017_Decision_Process > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#Hackathon_location_decision_process_for_2017 > > All Hackathons: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathon_101 > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Hackathon_tips_for_organizers > > This year’s Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2016> will be held in > Jerusalem in April. Ideally we will announce the host for 2017 before March > 14th, 2016. If multiple chapters or organizations are interested, we hope > to work together to figure out the the best solution. > > Any organizations interested in hosting should please create a Phabricator > ticket and associate it with the Developer-Relations project. > > Example: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96826 > > Please include as much information as possible from: proposing a hackathon > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon> > > Please email me at [email protected] with any questions or concerns. > I am not on the chapters@ list, so if there are any responses there > please remember to keep me on CC. > > > Looking forward to hearing from you! > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
