Hackathon/Program
Session scheduling is done un-conference style. Create a phabricator task with the details (example), and list it below. We have limited break-out rooms so please consider scheduling discussions or sprints at your hacking table in the main hacking room. We will number the tables so it will be easy to find each other.
Tuesday, 17 July
Participants arrive in Cape Town
Wednesday, 18 July
| Room Name | Montreal / VOC Centre | Mexico City / VOC Centre | Esino Lario/Paarl | Washington DC/Villa | Suite (3116) | Numbered Hackathon tables in Montreal and Mexico City |
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| Room Description | Main hacking space. Numbered round tables. 3rd floor | Main hacking space. Numbered round tables. 3rd floor | 40 person breakout space. Round tables and a projector. 2nd floor | Couches and round tables with projector. 75 people. During the hackathon it is reservable for more relaxed sessions. 2nd floor | 15 person breakout space with TV screen. This suite is on the 31st floor so all sessions will start at 5 minutes after the hour and end at 5 minutes before the hour to give people time to arrive and leave. | If you don't need an entire breakout room to hold your session, training, sprint, etc, and you can hold your hour-long session at a hackathon table, then: list your table number, title of session and associated phab task in this column |
| 09:00 | Arrive any time after 9am: Claim your hacking space, start your projects, register, hang out, socialize and/or meet other hackathon participants. | |||||
| 10:00 | Hackathon opening | Rooms closed | ||||
| 11:00 | Hacking! | Poster creation session for mentors & mentoring program over for mentors | SESSION FOR NEWCOMERS: Introduction to Wikimedia technical areas and projects | Language focus area meetup: overview and getting started
If you can write in any human language, you already have sufficient skills to contribute something that will have immediate impact. Come and see how! |
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| 12:00 | Hacking | SESSION FOR NEWCOMERS: Mentors and newcomers meet! | ||||
| 13:00 | Hacking! | SESSION:Q and A for Structured Data on Commons | ||||
| 14:00 | De-mystifying jenkins (Introduction to Wikimedia Continuous Integration/CI) | |||||
| 15:00 | SESSION FOR NEWCOMERS: Learn to use Phabricator! | |||||
| 16:00 | ScienceSource focus list session: why and how? | |||||
| 17:00 | Hackathon reception: drinks & food to help you hack! | Technical Advice IRC Meeting: The Wikimania Special | ||||
| 18:00 | ||||||
| 19:00 | Hacking! | |||||
| 20:00 | Hacking continues thoughout the night in VOC | |||||
If you need a quiet space to work then we suggest the ground floor of the hotel which has lounge areas.
Evening: we will identify a local bar where participants can join if they want to socialize with other hackathon participants.
Thursday, 19 July
| Room Name | Montreal / VOC Centre | Mexico City / VOC Centre | Esino Lario/Paarl | Washington DC/Villa | Suite 3116 | Numbered Hackathon tables in Montreal and Mexico City |
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| Room Description | Main hacking space. Numbered round tables | Main hacking space. Numbered round tables | 40 person breakout space. Round tables and a projector | This will be the 24 hour hacking space throughout all of Wikimania. Both couches and round tables. During the hackathon it is reservable for more relaxed sessions. | 15 person breakout space with TV screen | If you don't need an entire breakout room to hold your session, training, sprint, etc, and you can hold your hour-long session at a hackathon table, then: list your table number, title of session and associated phab task in this column |
| 09:00 | Arrive any time after 9am: Claim your hacking space, start your projects, register, hang out, socialize and/or meet other hackathon participants. | |||||
| 10:00 | 10:00 - 10:15: A 15 minute morning-#2 opening | Rooms closed | ||||
| 11:00 | Hacking! | SESSION FOR NEWCOMERS: Still don't know what to work on? Join this session! | Water editathon | Languages, Scripts, and Variants: LanguageConverter (Table #8 in the Language corner)
Contributing on mobile - interviews and user testing with editors (Table #15) | ||
| 12:00 | Season of RevisionSlider Q&A (Meet at Documentation Corner)
Contributing on mobile - interviews and user testing with editors (Table #15) | |||||
| 13:00 | Doing Cool Things with Wiki Content (Parsoid Power) | Contributing on mobile - interviews and user testing with editors (Table #15) | ||||
| 14:00 | SPRINT: Wikidata properties for Structured Data on Commons | SESSION FOR NEWCOMERS: Google Summer of Code and Outreachy information session (Meet at Mentoring Corner)
Contributing on mobile - interviews and user testing with editors (Table #15) | ||||
| 15:00 | Improving the edit conflict resolution screen: Methods, mistakes and mystery | |||||
| 16:00 | Group Photo Location: MainHackathon space (Montreal / VOC Centre) on the stage | |||||
| 17:00 | Hackathon closing | Rooms closed | ||||
| 18:00 | Hacking! | |||||
| 19:00 | ||||||
| 20:00 | Rooms closed | 24 hour hacking in Washington DC/Villa | Rooms closed | |||
If you need a quiet space to work then we suggest the ground floor of the hotel which has lounge areas.
All hackathon spaces close at 20:00 on Thursday with the exception of Washington DC/Villa which remains a 24 hour hacking space until 20:00 on Sunday evening.
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 20 - 22 July
24 hour hacking space available to hackathon participants. Should have coffee and snacks 24/7.
Sunday Showcase
Sunday 14:30 - 15:30: Hackathon showcase - room VOC North
Monday, 23 July
Participants head home!