Tag: event

freenode #live – Bristol 2018

freenode #live is a “community-focused live event designed to build and strengthen relationships between Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) developers and users”. The 2018 event was held in Bristol, United Kingdom at We the curious with roughly 100-200 people attending (from my guesswork). The event essentially had a single track of talks. The old IMAX theatre above…

By addshore November 19, 2018 0

Wikibase of Wikibases

The Wikibase registry was one of the outcomes of the first in a series of Federated wikibase workshops organised in partnership with the European research council. The aim of the registry is to act as a central point for details of public Wikibase installs hosted around the web. Data held about the installs currently includes…

By addshore April 30, 2018 4

Mediawiki Developer Summit 2016

The Wikimedia Developer Summit is an event with an emphasis on the evolution of the MediaWiki architecture and the Wikimedia Engineering goals for 2016. Last year the event was called the MediaWiki Developer Summit. As with last year the event took place in the Mission Bay Center, San Francisco, California. The event was slightly earlier this year, positioned…

By addshore January 8, 2016 0

Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata

This entry is part 1 of 16 in the series Wikidata Map

Recently Wikidata celebrated its third birthday. For the occasion I ran the map generation script that I have talked about before again to see what had changed in the geo coordinate landscape of Wikidata! I found, well, Mexico blossomed! The image to the left is from June 2015, the right October 2015 and Wikimania was…

By addshore November 21, 2015 4

Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 (Lyon)

This years Wikimedia Hackathon was located in Lyon, France at Valpré-Lyon between the 23rd and 25th of May. The hotel (Valpre-Lyon) was absolutely beautiful with large grass areas, great architecture and a place for you weather you wanted to have a large or small discussion, sit quietly or sit outside. As well as Pétanque, table tennis was also available as well as…

By addshore May 30, 2015 1

Silicon Milkroundabout 9

Silicon Milkroundabout is a job fair for the UK tech start-up community. The 9th event was held on 9 and 10 May 2015 in London with over 200 companies attending. I attended the 9th event and had a great time, below are some of the highlights!

By addshore May 11, 2015 0

Mediawiki Developer Summit 2015

The MediaWiki Developer Summit is an invitation-only event with an emphasis on the evolution of the MediaWiki architecture and the Wikimedia Engineering goals for 2015. It took place on Monday, January 26 and Tuesday, January 27, 2015 in the Mission Bay Center, San Francisco, California. Overall it was very interesting and a lot of good discussion happened. Again…

By addshore January 30, 2015 1