Microgrants/Brighton Hackathon 2011

This is a draft microgrant proposal by User:Lcawte, please contact him before making any major edits to this page!

Overview

The Brighton Hackathon is a Wikimedia-related developer meetup and hackdays in Brighton due to happen in November 2011, and has already generated some interest. Per discussions on the mailing list, IRC and various other platforms, I have created this microgrant page. See mw:Brighton Hackathon 2011.

Budget

	Estimated Cost	Actual Cost (TBC)	Explanation
Venue	£100		The Skiff have generously agreed to give us the venue for the weekend for a one off payment.
Food	TBC
Friday Evening	£5/person (£25?)		This gives each person £5 off a meal at the chosen restaurant, which covers most/half a meal depending on option
SWAG	£10/person + (£40P&P)		Shirts, give aways, etc.
Other	TBC

Timeline

The event is expected to take place on the weekend of the 19th of November, ending the evening after on the 20th of November 2011.

Expected outcomes

Provide time for developers, and other developer-type people to collaboratively work together on projects (for example MediaWiki and Toolserver, however anyone is free to suggest and work on other projects that are beneficial) that will benefit Wikimedia projects. As well as this, it provides opportunities for UK or closer European based developers to meet and hack together.

Who I am

I'm Lewis Cawte, and I go under the name of Lcawte online. I've been following the Wikimedia development projects for over a year, and have had various constraints on attending Wikimanias and other Hackathons, so Sumana, the Wikimedia Foundation 'Volunteer Development Coordinator'(?) suggested I organise my own. My main constraint is that I've only recently turned 15, but I've been editing, and using MediaWiki since I was 12, and I've more recently become involved in translatewiki.net (Staff Member) and other projects. For more details, you can google "Lewis Cawte" or "Lcawte" or see my user page.

Discussion