Topic on Talk:Wikimedia Hackathon 2023

Hello everyone,

If you are interested in organizing or joining a hackathon event, but cannot attend the in-person Hackathon event in May in Athens, Greece, this email is for you!

We encourage communities, user groups or chapters to organize satellite events connected to the in-person Hackathon. These events are to be organized autonomously and share the hackathon's purpose: bringing the global technical community together to connect, hack, run technical discussions, and explore new ideas.

You can work with your wiki community to organize these events before, during, or after the main event to onboard newcomers to the technical aspects of the Wikimedia movement, hosting watch parties or meetups in your region to offer an alternative to people who cannot join the in-person event in Athens.

To obtain help with organizing an event, you can apply for funds via the Rapid Grants maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation. The deadline to apply for funding is March 20. When preparing for your event, you can reach out to the Hackathon organizing team for support with resources, designing the program, and guidance on getting involved in the global event.

Learn more about the satellite events, funding process, and a checklist for organizing on the Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Satellite_events wiki page.

Great invitation, and would you be generous enough to offer the link page for translation please? Refurbished Rapid fund application itself is not yet user-friendly IMHO, as far as the basis of grant giving/application differs from culture to culture. I'd await the ping that the link page, and of course, this page, be offered for translation. No consensus from among the circle of translators, tho, and crossing my fingers ppl will jump in to make things localized/ture to our Movement Stragegies/Initiatives. Cheers,

@Omotecho Thanks for bringing this up! I see that the satellite events page has now been marked for translation. If you have the admin rights, feel free to mark the main page as well for translation. If not, I will ping someone to make a request for the same.

Would you nudge someone and it will be great to see the main page ready for translation. No admin rights I have. FYI, I tried to bring ja translation to the linked page. Hackathon is not my area, and I am thinking a few rubbing their palms among ja community!