Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 (Ghana)/Local Meet up

Title Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 (Ghana) Dates 21 & 22 May 2022 Location Accra Etherpads Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 Ghana Local Meetup Status Done Report Done

About

Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 (Ghana) is a local meet up event of the main Wikimedia Hackathon 2022. The Hackathon is for anyone who contributes (or wants to contribute) to Wikimedia’s technical areas - as code creators, maintainers, translators, designers, technical writers and other technical roles. You can come with a project in mind, join an existing project, or create something new with others. The goal of this year's local meetup is to bring together translators from Ghana to contribute technically for a local meetup of the upcoming Wikimedia Hackathon 2022.

To talk about the format of the event being physical/in-person, as the world is opening up, we also feel that it does make sense to host an in-person event rather than online, of course with all appropriate safety measures. During the last two years, we realized that many things can be organized online, however, certain components of in-person events such as forming new social connections don’t work well in an online event, which are also crucial to a community. So we would like to take this opportunity for this hackathon.

Participation

Note: This year's local meetup will take place in a hybrid format, for which scholarships will be provided (travel, food and other related expenses). However, if you would like to participate remotely in the main event you may directly do so in the main hackathon. You can find more information about that on this page.

Scholarship Application

• Link to application: Scholarships
• Deadline: 23:59 hrs on 17th May 2022 (Tuesday)

Information to Applicants

• Unless there is a valid medical reason, it is mandatory for all participants, organizers, and invitees to be fully-vaccinated against COVID-19.
• Participants are not allowed to bring friends or relatives to the event, unless it is absolutely necessary (only with prior information and approval).
• We will only be able to provide scholarship support to contributors currently residing in Ghana.

Program

This year's local meet up will solely be based on technical translation of tools and projects, and to be in sync with the main hackathon program wherever possible.So if you a Translator living within Accra or you will be available in Accra within 21st of May,2022 and 22nd of May,2022. Kindly do apply to join us on this Wikimedia Hackathon local meet up.

Event organization

Event coordinators	Affiliate	Funded by
Joris Darlington Quarshie Jwale2 Robertjamal12