[Engineering] Wikimedia Hackathon 2019: Registration Open!

Mon Jan 7 19:22:37 UTC 2019

Hello!
This Friday (11 January) is the deadline for WMF staff to register for the
Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 in Prague. After that point the decision committee
will begin work and we will not be able to accept any more applications so
please make sure to register before then if you have interest in attending.
Please do not register unless you are sure that your manager willing to
support your efforts preparing for the event and your time away from your
day-today work at the event.  The budget is centralized, so your manager
does not need to financially approve.

TOMORROW is the deadline for volunteers needing scholarship or visa support
to register, so please consider sending any final reminders to volunteers
who are working closely with your teams and might benefit from attending.
For transparency we currently have 268 partial or full volunteer
scholarship applications and budget allocated to send between 20-30 of them
(depending on how much additional funding is contributed to the process by
various affiliates) so the scholarship committee this year will have a
*very* tough job.

Thanks! I am here to help or answer questions in any way that you or your
teams might need.
This is the last registration reminder that I will be sending out.

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 1:32 PM Rachel Farrand <rfarrand at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> This email is for WMF staff who are interested in attending the Wikimedia
> Hackathon 2019 in Prague which will be taking place 17-19 May, 2019. If you
> are interested in attending, please read this email and links completely. If
> you are not interested, you can stop reading here! :)
>
> Thank you for your patience with us as we worked come up with a fair
> process to determine who should attend this event while staying within the
> 50 person limitations.
>
> The 2019 WMF Staff hackathon decision committee is:
>
>    -
>
>    Deb Tankersly (Representing Technology)
>    -
>
>    Moriel Schottlender (Representing Audiences)
>    -
>
>    Srishti Sethi (Representing volunteer developers)
>    -
>
>    Rachel Farrand ( Representing the event programs and the best
>    interests of WMCZ)
>
>
> There is a separate scholarship committee and a separate organizing team
> for this year’s event, together the group outlined above will just focus on
> the WMF attendee selection.
>
> We have done our best to outline the decision process, decision criteria
> and next steps for you here on Officewiki
> <https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Relations/WMHack2019_Decision_Process>.
> As usual we will do our best to learn from our efforts this year and carry
> on lessons to future events and future years.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Rachel Farrand <rfarrand at wikimedia.org>
> Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 1:31 PM
> Subject: Wikimedia Hackathon 2019: Registration Open!
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> On behalf of Wikimedia Czech Republic and the Wikimedia Foundation
> Community Relations team we are please to announce that registration for
> the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2019/Register_and_Attend>
> is now open for both scholarships and regular attendees!
>
> The hackathon will be held at the Czech National Library of Technology
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_National_Library_of_Technology> in
> Prague, CZ between 17-19 May 2019.
>
> We have identified three focus areas
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2019/Program> for the
> event which we will continue to refine and clarify over the next months. We
> welcome your suggestions and collaboration on additional focus areas or
> larger projects and as usual welcome participants who plan to work on or
> learn about any project that they like related to any area of Wikimedia
> Technology.
>
> If you have any questions or comments please contact: *hackathon at wikimedia.cz
> <hackathon at wikimedia.cz>*
> Otherwise, please continue to follow our program and organizational
> developments on Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 on Mediawiki
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2019>.
>
> Please help us by forwarding this email to relevant lists!
>
> --
> Rachel Farrand
> Events Program Manager
> Technical Collaboration Team
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
> --
> Rachel Farrand
> Events Program Manager
> Technical Collaboration Team
> Wikimedia Foundation
>

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Rachel Farrand
Events Program Manager
Technical Collaboration Team
Wikimedia Foundation
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