This sounds fantastic! Thanks everyone for working to make sure that this event is successful and a highly valuable experience for all!

Sincerely,
Nicholas Michael Bashour

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Am 18.06.2012 um 14:39 schrieb Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah <at> wikimedia.org>:

> OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free
> software contributors with communities, tools, and education.  Wikimedia
> Foundation is pleased to announce that we're partnering with OpenHatch
> <http://openhatch.org/> to make the upcoming pre-Wikimania hackathon
> even more useful.
>
> Asheesh Laroia and other OpenHatch folks will be working with Katie
> Filbert (Aude), Gregory Varnum (Varnent), and me to encourage and aid
> the Wikimedia technical community, by designing and executing the
> novice-focused half of the hackathon.  You'll see Asheesh in IRC as
> "paulproteus".
>
> I'm excited that we're working with OpenHatch on this.  I've borrowed
> lessons from OpenHatch in structuring our events and educational
> materials.  They are leaders in teaching new contributors, and in
> building open source communities' capacity to nurture.  With OpenHatch's
> help with this event (and with the documentation they write), I hope to
> get scores of semitechnical Wikimedia editors over the barriers to
> technical contribution.
>
> OpenHatch will, among other tasks:
> * Develop novice-focused curricula that include tutorials for novices
> * Design at least three project-based exercises for novices, based on
> the model OpenHatch created with its Python and open source workshops
> * Review existing public reference and tutorial material on the topics
> * Update or write relevant instructional documentation on mediawiki.org,
> including writing high-quality setup instructions for a new developer's
> development environment
> * Find on-the-ground volunteers to help address problems that newcomers
> will face
> * Disseminate lessons learned to the Wikimedia community
>
> You'll see Asheesh and his colleagues on the hackathon page at
> https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon , in IRC channels
> #mediawiki, #wikimania, and #openhatch, on wikitech-l, on Wikimania's
> lists, and the new Wikimedia/OpenHatch event list:
> http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/wmf-outreach-staff .
>
> Welcome!
>
> --
> Sumana Harihareswara
> Engineering Community Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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