<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><font color="#0f61c8"><br></font><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;">The next Wikimedia annual development community meet-up — the Wikimedia Hackathon — will be held in Zürich, Switzerland in 2014 from May 9-11.</span><br><font color="#0f61c8" face="Arial"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;">It is planned to be a long weekend filled with hacking anything related to MediaWiki or one of the Wikimedia projects (and sometimes other things, too). The Hackathon is completely open; we welcome both seasoned and new developers, as well as people working on MediaWiki, tools, pywikibot, gadgets, extensions, templates, etc.</span><br><font color="#0f61c8" face="Arial"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;">Previous hackathon events were held all over the world, such as in Amsterdam, Netherlands (2013), Pune, India (2012), San Francisco, USA (2012), Mumbai, India (2011), Brighton, UK (2011), New Orleans, USA (2011), Berlin, Germany (2011) and Washington DC, USA (2010).</span><br><font color="#0f61c8" face="Arial"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;">As you can see in the email that Rupert forward, the Hackathon is not all about coding Mediawiki, other project that can impact Mediawiki or Wikipedia and its sister project are welcomed! </span><br><font color="#0f61c8" face="Arial"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;">Swiss, and european in general, OSM developers are warmly invited to apply for a scholarship to attend the Wikimedia Hackathon, just keep in mind that this year the motivation is to go back to the basis and have three days of hacking.</span><br><font color="#0f61c8" face="Arial"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;">If you are not a developer but would like to meet some, a meeting "Tech People meeting Regular Users" will be organized, stay tuned!</span><br><font color="#0f61c8" face="Arial"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;">Sincerely</span><br><font color="#0f61c8" face="Arial"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;">Charles</span><br><font color="#0f61c8" face="Arial"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: inherit; line-height: 20px;">Venue and Accommodation</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;">The venue and accommodation will be both at the same site: Youth Hostel Zürich, Switzerland. All conference rooms are available to us including a nice yard. We have a big main conference hall and three workshop rooms.</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(1, 79, 125); text-decoration: none;">Please check out the event page on mediawiki.org concerning all details and the program of this event <img src="https://www.wikimedia.ch/sites/all/modules/urlicon/Icon_External_Link.png" alt="" title="favicon" class="urlicon urlicon-www_mediawiki_org" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; height: 12px; width: 12px;"></a><br><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nlrQ7cox36xaNK1u9iKP-thogY5TVrilOGJR79DqQ9A/viewform" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(1, 79, 125); text-decoration: none;">Registration and scholarship applicatopm form. <img src="https://www.wikimedia.ch/sites/default/files/urlicon/docs_google_com.ico" alt="" title="favicon" class="urlicon urlicon-docs_google_com" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; height: 12px; width: 12px;"></a><br></div></blockquote><font color="#0f61c8"><br><br><br></font><span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">___________________________________________________________</span><br><font color="#0f61c8"><br></font><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT'; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Charles ANDRES, Chief Science Officer</span><br><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT'; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">"Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge –</span><br><a href="http://www.wikimedia.ch/" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT'; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">www.wikimedia.ch</a><br><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT'; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Office +41 (0)21 340 66 21</span><br><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT'; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Skype: charles.andres.wmch</span><br><a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT'; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch</a><br><a href="http://prezi.com/user/Andrescharles/" style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">http://prezi.com/user/Andrescharles/</a><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">
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