Seems good! See you on Hackathon! On Jun 19, 2012 2:49 AM, "Nicholas Bashour" <[email protected]> wrote:
> This sounds fantastic! Thanks everyone for working to make sure that this > event is successful and a highly valuable experience for all! > > Sincerely, > Nicholas Michael Bashour > > Sent from my iPhone > > Am 18.06.2012 um 14:39 schrieb Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected] > >: > > > OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free > > software contributors with communities, tools, and education. Wikimedia > > Foundation is pleased to announce that we're partnering with OpenHatch > > <http://openhatch.org/> to make the upcoming pre-Wikimania hackathon > > even more useful. > > > > Asheesh Laroia and other OpenHatch folks will be working with Katie > > Filbert (Aude), Gregory Varnum (Varnent), and me to encourage and aid > > the Wikimedia technical community, by designing and executing the > > novice-focused half of the hackathon. You'll see Asheesh in IRC as > > "paulproteus". > > > > I'm excited that we're working with OpenHatch on this. I've borrowed > > lessons from OpenHatch in structuring our events and educational > > materials. They are leaders in teaching new contributors, and in > > building open source communities' capacity to nurture. With OpenHatch's > > help with this event (and with the documentation they write), I hope to > > get scores of semitechnical Wikimedia editors over the barriers to > > technical contribution. > > > > OpenHatch will, among other tasks: > > * Develop novice-focused curricula that include tutorials for novices > > * Design at least three project-based exercises for novices, based on > > the model OpenHatch created with its Python and open source workshops > > * Review existing public reference and tutorial material on the topics > > * Update or write relevant instructional documentation on mediawiki.org, > > including writing high-quality setup instructions for a new developer's > > development environment > > * Find on-the-ground volunteers to help address problems that newcomers > > will face > > * Disseminate lessons learned to the Wikimedia community > > > > You'll see Asheesh and his colleagues on the hackathon page at > > https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon , in IRC channels > > #mediawiki, #wikimania, and #openhatch, on wikitech-l, on Wikimania's > > lists, and the new Wikimedia/OpenHatch event list: > > http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/wmf-outreach-staff . > > > > Welcome! > > > > -- > > Sumana Harihareswara > > Engineering Community Manager > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimania-program mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-program > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >
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