Forwarding to f-l/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Samuel Klein <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Internal-l] Do you use MediaWiki as a conference website?
Related to this idea, OpenMeetings is a site established to capture meetings and video/audio/text of talks at them, under a free license. The site is a wiki and founded by a wikipedian, but they are looking for it to be adopted by a wider community. http://openmeetings.org/wiki/Main_Page SJ On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:57 AM, aude <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> If you administer a MediaWiki installation and use it as a conference >> website when you host conferences and conventions, you might be >> interested in this suggested summer project: > > I would be very interested in there being some investment in the technology > for running a Wikimania and other conferences. > > Unfortunately, the Wikimania 2012 is very much tied up with actually running > the conference and then we need a long holiday to not think about organizing > conferences. :) > > Also, there is the Drupal Conference Organizing distribution which does a > lot and has been a product of several years work by experienced Drupal > developers. I don't think it's simple to magically make MediaWiki into > wonderful conference software, as stuff like international payment > processing is complex. > > If the GSOC project can be some small piece of what a Wikimania needs, that > might be more feasible. > > Cheers, > Katie > > > >> >> >> > I seek to work on building a Convention extension as part of the Google >> > Summer of Code project.I have set up a proposal for the same , here is >> > the >> > link http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/GSOCProposal(2012) >> > . >> > I haven't found a mentor to work with me for this project yet, so if >> > anyone >> > feels the need for this extension just the way I do, please feel free to >> > add the feedback to the proposal page, or reply here. >> > More information regarding this extension can be found here :- >> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/ConventionExtension >> > Thanks , >> > Akshay Chugh >> > (irc - chughakshay16) >> >> No skilled MediaWiki administrators or developers have shown interest in >> mentoring this project, so right now it's unlikely to progress. If you >> think you could mentor him this summer, please reply to me and cc him at >> [email protected] . Mentoring takes about five hours a week >> (communication, code review, design help, and so on). >> >> (He is applying to participate in Wikimedia Foundation's Google Summer >> of Code program -- details at >> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012/management#GSoC_management_philosophy >> and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012 .) >> >> -- >> Sumana Harihareswara >> Volunteer Development Coordinator >> Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
