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Sumana Harihareswara | 10 Mar 2012 17:25
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Submit a talk to Open Source Bridge by Mar 16th, get WMF subsidy

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.

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Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
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Sumana Harihareswara | 10 Mar 2012 17:50
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Re: Submit a talk to Open Source Bridge by Mar 16th, get WMF subsidy

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.)
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Sumana Harihareswara | 16 Mar 2012 16:36
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Deadline today: Submit a talk to Open Source Bridge, get WMF subsidy

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.)
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Sumana Harihareswara | 18 Mar 2012 03:18
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Deadline extended: Submit a talk to Open Source Bridge, get WMF subsidy

On 03/16/2012 11:36 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> 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
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Sumana Harihareswara | 30 Mar 2012 17:36
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Please register for the Berlin hackathon - June 1-3, 2012

I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon.  It's 1-3 June and
registration is now open.  If you need financial assistance or help with
hotel/hostel, just mention it in the registration form.
https://wmberlin.eventbrite.com/

This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical
community.  We'll be hacking, designing, and socialising, primarily
talking about Gadgets, the switch to Lua, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Labs.

Our goals for the event are to bring 100-150 people together, with
 lots of people who have not attended such events before.  User
scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile,
structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we
want you to come!

Details: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackathon_2012

Thanks to Wikimedia Germany for hosting and coordinating this event.
(Venue still to be determined.)
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