Notes from the Hackathon Opening:
Detailed notes from the opening at bottom.
There is be a video recording of the open-mic by Andrew. link: https://youtu.be/IbgCPW5DtLs

We will hold a second open-mic without video recording at the very end for those who don't want to be on camera

Open Mic

• Amire80 - edit directly from telegram or facebook messenger (and has candies)
• Siebrand - If you use Strava (for running and cycling) Join us: https://strava.com/clubs/wikimedia
• Lucie & Marius - ArticlePlaceholder - using Wikidata to generate Wikipedia placeholder articles - NEEDS design help
• Birgit Muller - New and Experienced developers how to become BFFs forever
• Max S. - AutoWikiBrowser - re-writing as web app. Interested? Come join me!
• Jon Robson - offline experience; progressive web apps, ReactJS experience helpful, trendline API, UI regressions;
• Peter - FIrst hackathon. Open Knowledge Maps - improve the discovery of research findings for folks outside academia
• Markus Glaser - Fantastic MediaWiki track (3rd party usage), tomorrow there is a session on how to write BlueSpice extensions, introduction session on Sunday on MediaWiki development for beginners [by whom?]
• Dmitry - WP Android app; mobile development; offline experience on mobile
• Robert - signus anon (???) LDAP authentication
• Jens Ohlig - documentation sprints for any technical project, including Wikidata. Workshops on: translation extension; using phabricator; illustrations and screenshots. Drop-ins welcome.
• Jonas Kress - WDQS (Wikidata query service) UI, working on things like: code-completion and visualizations
• Lydia Pintscher - Wikidata ideas: games, data analysis, automaticaly adding references etc. Test how to edit WD from WP
• Léa Lacroix - First hackathon - Ladies that FLOSS, session about tech event organizors (WIkidataCON this autumn), Breton dances
• Bryan Davis (bd808) - Cloud Services - labs and tool labs. Session 11am Saturday. Talk to us about anything related.
• Aaron Halfaker & Amir/Ladsgroup - ORES, prediction scoring - anything AI and machine learning - getting ORES for your wiki (wikimedia and 3rd party) "who wants some ores?" Session Saturday at 2pm. Help us build lists of curse words in your language.
• Maarten - anything Wikidata realted - SPARQL workshop tomorrow
• Andre Costa - Wiki loves Monuments - structured data and import of data - Also [[m:wikispeech]]
• Christoph Jauera (Fisch) - WMDE TechWishes, like RevisionSlider and some smaller open tasks
• Thomas Arrow - WikiFactMine - Minig facts from papers and linking them to Wikidata items, interested in finding folks to help
• Base - Bot master- looking for help - CE Spring article contest - wants to collect statistics, collection of antipatterns [?], want to create a tool to identify disambiguation pages, tool to categorize WLM pages
• Nirzar - Design team at the Foundation is here, if you need help aroudn workflows, research - get in touch. Project around the reading experience with progressive web
• Thiemo Mättig - Wikidata
• Tim (kolossos) - maps, geodata, OSM,
• John L & Josephine - Commons App (Prague prehackathon), looking for Design, UI improvements, testing, bug fixes
• Henrique Andrade - help to build tools for the Portugese communites
• Srishti - For the newcomers, there's a session at 3pm to give an overview of the technical spaces in the Wikimedia movment. There will also be some tasks selected for new contributors. Also an overview of Phabricator
• Sandra (spinster) - "I have a lot of impostor syndrom because I'm not a coder" - power-editor, willing to give feedback on workflows and interaction with GLAM organizations (data-import for them and communication with them)
• Finn Arup Nielson (Denmark) - SPARQL, javascript,
• Johan & Paula - Mapbox, based on OpenStreetmaps, looking to find out more about translation, localization, and geohacking
• Lea Voget - WMDE Wishlist - taskforce about Revisionslider and accessability. Diff agents (Wikidiff2), Moving files to commons from Wikipedias (with history)
• Volker Eckl - Design team - ask me about usability and accessibility, and design style guide, and OOjs UI.
• Andre Klapper - phabricator co-maintainer, ask me anything about that. Ask me about suggested tasks, or people to contact.
• Vera - Make it easier to transfer images with a free license from Flickr to commons - Help needed! - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Commons_Flickr_resources
• ???? - session about FlaggedRevisions this evening at 19:00 -
• Sergeï (putnik)- wikidata in infoboxes, if you want help, ask me!
• Maxime - https://inventaire.io - web app using wikidata to do book inventory, and vice versa. Wants help with book editions and other inventaire improvements/feedback. Blazegraph.
• Thomas (TPT) - Wikisource, Wikidata, SPARQL, creating SQL queries from SPARQL to query Wikipedia info (revisons, category data, and so on)
• Benoit (trizek) - If you want to know more about a project and community, how to work with them - there's a session about creating a central gadget taskforce. how to create gadgets across projects
• Ziko - Will be in documentation area. interested in wiktheory - 14:00 forum about wikis and research and support, from social scientist approach
• Gergo (Tgr) - developer wishlist - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_wishlist - ask me about how you can help
• Dan (Milimetric) - analytics team - rebuilding wikistats, if you want to see the protoype or want to see certian stats, let me know
• EBernhardson - works with search. Will be replacing query parsing in advanced search functionality. Ask me anything related.
• T Shrinivasan - python wikitools,
• Daniel Mietschen - open access signial processing project - bringing open access data into wikidata/wikipedia

Last notes

• Snacks close to the CAfé are for us
• Some visas haven't been accepted (two from Cameroon?), it is sad and those people may participate remotely.
• Take care of people who don't want to be taken in photo.

Happy hacking!!

DETAILED OPENING SESSION NOTES

Claudia: A quick welcome and thanks - Claudia

Demographics

• 260 participants, 48 nationalities, 21% female
• Claudia mention the journey to create this event, starting when she has been hired by the Austrian Chapter. Th echapter has grown since.

Thanks

• silver bullion [[Maria-Theresien-Taller]]
• Still in use in some parts of the world - you can have a nice diner somevhere if you have one of those 18th century coins
• WMAT is a member of CEE group, which has also hosted some pre-hackathon in various places (Prague, Thessaloniki, Bucarest, Budapest) since last year. Two co-organizers get a coin.
• Thanks to the scholarship comitee - Siebrand, Birgit, Jean-Fred, [missing one name]
• Thanks to Srishti and Rachel for preperations for the hackathon
• Thanks to two more friends from Germany, Marcus and Richard Heigl
• Thank you to our sponsors

Introduction to the mentoring program by Sonjia

• A more guided approach to newcomers
  • A mentor will take care of a newcomer over the week end, to help on integration
  • round of applauses to the mentors!
  • A special session to meet mentors and newcomers will happen after the introduction in the Wiaschtl room

Party !! by Sonja

Karaoke tonight
Party with DJs tomorrow evening - all participants have a voucher to have one free dring on the house

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Program#Hackathon_Party

Volunteers role by Rachel

Hackathons are events builted by participants
There is some roles this year for people who want to get involved:

• Photographers
  • Don't forget the group photo
  • Don't forget that white lanyards mean people don't want to be photographed
• Event Blogging, see with Srishti
• Social hosts
  • Introducing newcomers to people
• Note takers and Phabricators updaters
• Post-event and notes checking
  • sign up at the registration desk
  • it can be an email reminder in 6 months or a Telegram group, whatever you need

Skill Share

Add a skill you would like to share, or request a skill you would like to devleop on the skill share board in the atrium
You need a skill, please ask Skill share

Finding projects / documentation

• The open mic is open to anyone at the end of this presentation to introduce to people what you want to work on or find help
  • Anyone can schedule a session about a particular topic, to have input or think in common. See the wiki and edit it
• The Phabricator board has a lot of open tasks if you want to find something to work on.
• Describe on the whiteboard sign at your table what you are working on.
• Showcase at the end of the hackathon, to celebrate what has been done, to present what are the next steps

Logistics, by Claudia

• Introducing bathrooms, including neutral gender ones above the Café.
• The quiet space is between the Vienna Café and the bathroom
• Green Tshirts, has them if you need something
• Stickers to customize your badge!
• irc channel in #wmhack, also the Twitter hashtag
• Telegram group: https://t.me/wmhack
• The first the wikimedia event to have specific badges for plushies [applauses]

Feedback

• At the end of the event, you will have a feedback form. It will help to organize better events and improve integration for our friends for next year hackathon [that we are not allowed to mention the name]

Safe space Policy, by Nick

• "Be excellent to each other" - Nick lists some forbidden things
• If there is any unappropriate behavor, please contact the committee
• reminders are displayed in every room
• People who can be contacted directly about FSP issues stand up in the room - Sonja, Claudia, Rachel, Raimund, Annemarie, Nick.
• An email adress is also on the reminders

Rachel mentions the Code of conduct