Hello! Is your organization interested in hosting and co-organizing the 2020 Wikimedia Hackathon? We are looking for co-organizers!
Details about the decision process can be found here: - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/2020_Decision_Process - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon#Hackathon_location_decision_process_for_20 20 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon#Hackathon_location_decision_process_for_2020> Details about what it takes to organize a hackathon can be found here: - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Handbook - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons CHANGES FOR 2019 - Because of changes to the Wikimedia Foundation budgeting process, we are still working on confirming exact budgeting and requirements for this event. Generally we expect similar size and budget to previous years, but this is not finalized. - We are open & encouraging to bids from anywhere, but locations outside of Europe and the USA will be given extra weight. - Focus areas will be defined much further in advance, however participants can work on whatever they like related to Wikimedia Technology / Development. - We are continuing to work on changes around our newcomer support and onboarding as well as our mentoring programs - this will continue to develop until the event. At the same time we are still maintaining additional focus on providing a well-facilitated and organized meeting space for groups and the most active volunteers in the developer community to collaborate face to face, with appropriate representation of Foundation, affiliates, and volunteers, to discuss the future of Wikimedia technologies in depth. - We hope to expand our scholarship program to include more participants from outside of the USA and Europe. Ideally we will announce the host for 2020 by the Prague Hackathon in May. 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, or email rfarr...@wikimedia.org with a proposal or questions. Srishti and I are happy to assist in creating the ticket if needed. Examples: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162836, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96826, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127050 Please include as much information as possible from: Proposing a hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon> Additionally if you are interested in working together on a smaller technical event focused around newcomers in your region please also let me know! We are in the initial stages of building a program around this. Please email me at rfarr...@wikimedia.org with any questions or concerns. I am not on the chapters@ list, so if there is anything that I should respond to, make sure to keep me on CC. Also please forward this email anywhere you think it might be useful. Looking forward to hearing from you! -- Rachel Farrand Events Program Manager Technical Collaboration Team Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
