Here are results from Hack-A-Ton DC:

-Number of WMF Staff attending: 16

-Number of non-staff attending: 11

-Last-minute cancellations: 2

-Number of local developers attending: 8

-Number of “Fix-me’s” that were closed as resolved: 44 (roughly 30% of the queue)

-Number of Ops RT issues that were closed as resolved: 5

-Most Fixes (prize winners): 1st: Roan Kattouw, 2nd: Siebrand Mazeland, 3rd: Chad Horohoe. Honorable mention to Bryan Tong Minh who came in 4th.

-Furthest Traveled: 1st: Naren Datha, 2nd Tim Starling, 3rd Niklas Laxström

-Special Thank You (for setting up the MeetUp): Katie Filbert:aude

-Community and Engineering Discussions included:
a) Demo of WikiBhasha by Naren Datha of Microsoft,
b) Presentation of Test Suite methods by Rob Lanphier and Trevor Parscal, Priyanka Dhanda and Markus Glaser
c) Discussion of how to resolve Code Review / Deployment backlog by pretty much everybody
d) Demo and discussion of Sentence Level Editing by Jan Pavle Posma
e) Discussion of Pending Changes roadmap by Rob Lanphier, Alolita Sharma and team
f) Discussion of Resource Loader by Trevor Parscal and Roan Kattouw
g) Discussion of the future of WMF Release Engineering by Tim Starling, Rob Lanphier and team
All discussions were followed by prototyping or sprints on that topic

-Number of people attending the WikiMeetUp Saturday night: 52

Picture of most of the hackers sporting their new tee-shirts:

Nearly everybody...outside for a change.

So far we have 30 people gathered for a weekend of MediaWiki hacking (and we have room for more, so…come on down! http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hack-A-Ton_DC ). The good folks at the Embassy Suites Tyson’s Corner have been very helpful (and we’ve not taken down the wifi yet).

Here are some snaps of the action:

Concentration

Naren Datha presents on WikiBhasha

The Hacking Room (partial view)

We’ll take a Group Picture outside in our Hack-a-Thon shirts for later posting.

This is a reminder to anyone who might have been considering coming to the Hack-A-Ton in DC. If you haven’t been following page on MediaWiki.org, we’ve recently updated it with additional information, including the venue.

This year, we will be meeting at the Embassy Suites in Tyson’s Corner, just outside of the city itself. By the end of this week we will have a breakdown of what to expect and when.

We’ve already got a fair number of people coming so far, and I’d love to see more there. So if you’ve been thinking about coming but haven’t said anything or know of someone who would want to come, please get in touch with either myself or Danese for more information.

Greetings MediaWiki hackers!

I am pleased to announce the upcoming MediaWiki Hack-A-Ton in Washington, DC.

As you are all aware, every year in April our good friends at Wikimedia Deutschland host the annual “MediaWiki Developers Meetup” in Berlin. At that event, the program is focused on demonstrations, workshops and small group discussions. To complement this, we’re planning the DC meetup to be focused solely on hacking, bugfixing and getting down and dirty with the
code.

We’re scheduling this for October 22nd-24th in Washington, DC. Some of the details haven’t been ironed out yet, but will be announced over the coming days as it is. So clear your calendars, and keep your eyes on MediaWiki.org and the mailing lists for more information.

Some travel assistance may be available for those coming a long way. I’ve also been told there will be swag of some sort for attendees :)

Chad Horohoe
Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation

And one more thing: I forgot to mention Bugzilla. To help track the event, we’ve added a new keyword, “bugsmash.” Prior to the Hack-A-Ton, we’d like people to start tagging bugs that should be tackled during the event. It will help the participants get started finding bugs, as well as bump the priority on a bug you’ve been wanting to see fixed.