On 03/10/2012 11:50 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > On 03/10/2012 08:25 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: >> This year I want the Wikimedia technical community to have a strong >> presence at Open Source Bridge <http://opensourcebridge.org/> in >> Portland, Oregon, USA, June 26-29. OSB is tech talks & hack sessions >> with hands-on technologists we want, for Foundation staff recruiting >> (the Portland tech scene has good people looking for jobs) and for >> volunteer recruiting and collaboration (tons of Mozilla people went >> there last year). Good talks, clueful people, great food. :-) >> >> If you submit a talk and it gets accepted, tell me, and Wikimedia >> Foundation will partially subsidize or fully pay for your flight and >> hotel. If you submit a talk and it doesn't get accepted but you still >> want to go, talk with me and I'll see what I can do. >> >> Call for talks: >> <http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2012/01/announcing-the-2012-call-for-proposals/> >> Ideas: the parser rewrite, Wikimedia Labs, how we scale and optimize >> performance on a shoestring budget, our git/gerrit migration, securing >> PHP-based webapps, various approaches to making our data more >> structured/semantic, collaborative design, lessons from our communities, >> JS hacks, hetdeploy, offline/mobile, geodata... >> >> Please forward. > > (I should add -- also there would be complications if somehow lots of > Wikimedia people get their talks accepted and I can't budget to > subsidize all of them, or you can't get a visa to the US in time, or > some unforeseen thing comes up like that. But I don't predict those > problems happening.)
Quick reminder: today's the deadline. Ward Cunningham, Rob Lanphier, and I have proposed talks. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
