Wiki Education Brazil/Projects/Hackathon 2018

The creation of a local technical community and initiatives to improve the technical skills were required by the local community since the Brazil Catalyst Program. This need has surfaced again during the 2030 strategic discussions organized during the IWSC in Niteroi - Rio de Janeiro this.

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Reports 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018

Therefore, this project aims to organize the first Hackathon in Brasil with the main goal of create a strong local technical community, to support projects and develop new opportunities for new ideas, initiatives and academic researches, attending as well the community demand presented during the last years and discussions.

Goals

• Organize the first technical Wikimedia event in Latin America
• Create a local/regional technical community
• Increase the number of technical contributors in Brasil
• Support the development of new academic researches in Brasil providing technical support and tech background for researchers
• Connect the local technical contributors to the international movement
• Develop new tools and resources to support our GLAM partners
• Generate new projects and results to be presented during IWSC 2018 (papers, posters, workshops)
• Develop new partnerships in Brasil (Technical communities, universities, companies, research centers)

Organization Team

• Henrique Andrade (Wiki Education Brasil)
• Rodrigo Padula (Wiki Education Brasil)
• Karina Mochetti (IC/UFF)

Date

• September 14-16, 2018

Venue

• ? - State of Rio de Janeiro

Program

Day 1

Main Room

• 08:00 - 09:00 Registration
• 09:00 - 09:30 Opening
• 09:30 - 10:30 Participant's introductions/presentations

Room 1

• 10:30 - 24:00 Free Hacking

Room 2

• 10:30 - 12:30 Mentoring program opening
• 14:00 - 18:00 Workshops
• 18:00 - 24:00 Open Space / Lightning talks

Day 2

Main room

• 17:00 - 19:00 Show and Tell
• 19:00 - 19:10 Closing ceremony

Room 1

• 00:01 - 17:00 Free Hacking

Room 2

• 00:01 - 08:59 Open Space / Lightning talks
• 09:00 - 10:00 Check in - mentoring program
• 10:00 - 17:00 Workshops

Potential partners

• Mozilla Brasil
• Python Brasil
• IC/UFF
• PPGCI/UFF
• UFRJ
• UNIRIO

Interested participants

1. Rodrigo Padula (talk) 15:09, 5 December 2017 (UTC) (Brazil)
2. #Unknown (talk) 21:13, 6 December 2017 (UTC) (Venezuela)
3. Racso ^¿¿¿??? 14:24, 12 December 2017 (UTC) (Colombia)
4. Superzerocool (talk) 12:26, 13 December 2017 (UTC) (Chile)
5. --Thiagopetra (talk) 14:55, 14 December 2017 (UTC) (Brazil)
6. Halfak (WMF) (talk) 17:49, 2 January 2018 (UTC) (WMF, Scoring Platform team)
7. Eric Grossi (HC-UFMG)
8. Diego (WMF) (WMF, Research Team)
9. Santosh Shingare (talk) (EC Wikimedia India) 13:48, 16 June 2018 (UTC)