Grants:Project/Rapid/IMD/Indic Hackathon 2022/Report
- Report accepted
- To read the approved grant submission describing the plan for this project, please visit Grants:Project/Rapid/IMD/Indic Hackathon 2022.
- You may still comment on this report on its discussion page, or visit the discussion page to read the discussion about this report.
- You are welcome to Email rapidgrants at wikimedia dot org at any time if you have questions or concerns about this report.
Goals
[edit]Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?
- Yes, we were able to meet our goals and are happy with the project overall. We had good participation with mix of volunteer developers, community members and staff. During the two-day, we worked on many issues, bugs, improving tools and building new ones. The event page is at Indic Hackathon 2022.
Outcome
[edit]Please report on your original project targets. Please be sure to review and provide metrics required for Rapid Grants.
| Target outcome | Achieved outcome | Explanation |
| 10 participants + 3-4 organizers | 18 participants + 4 organizers | After the grant approval, CIS-A2K helped us with some additional funding to support travel for six participants and a third of accommodation budget. This helped us to invite more people to participate in the hackathon. |
| - | ~29 tasks/projects were worked upon | We did not have any hard target for the number of bugs that we would be fixing or tasks we would be working upon before the hackathon. However, we had a very productive event having done work on many issues. Many participants worked on tasks related to Wikisource and VideoCutTool. An exhaustive list is in the table below. |
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Learning
[edit]Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:
- What worked well?
- Approximately 50% of our participants are newcomers to Wikimedia technical spaces, having an online orientation session a few days prior to the in person event has helpful to orient them to various technical spaces and help them be more engaged during the in-person event, rather than starting afresh during the event. We also recorded the session and share it with all the participants.
- Having Satdeep as a resource person with sound knowledge what are outstanding technical issues on Wikimedia projects has been very crucial to the success of the event. He effectively helped to facilitate, prioritize and scope the tasks for the hackathon. Wikisource is a rapidly growing project in Indic languages, this not only helped us to work on several tasks related to Wikisource, but also create awareness among the developer community about the project. Abhijeet had also been quite helpful with technical mentorship for participants.
- Tanveer facilitated a session where participants share a cool tool they know (across the internet), and how they can be improved, or be adapted to Wikimedia. This had been an interesting activity. This was documented on the event's etherpad.
- As the first in-person event after almost two years, the event overall has been good networking between newcomers, veteran developers, staff and community members. As we also several GSoC and Outreach participants from the previous years, with proper follow-up, this will hopefully help in reactivating them.
- What did not work so well?
- Although we tried several ways in which we could encourage participation from the local event in the global hackathon, it had been quite hard. All the participantion in the global online event was mainly on the Phabricator which was helpful to collaborate with others, but socializing has largely been limited within the event. Timezone had been an issue, we only had small overlap with sessions of global hackathon during daytime working hours of India.
- What would you do differently next time?
- It would be good to brainstorm with the hackathon committee and the local meetups organizers on how we can increase social interaction among meetup and online participants having explicit sessions for that. Things such as rapid breakout rooms for ice-breaking and rotating sessions between timezones can be explored.
- We would like spend more time on creating a follow-up to keep engaging newcomers and developers post event.
Finances
[edit]Grant funds spent
[edit]Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.
| Expense category | Amount INR |
|---|---|
| Accommodation / F&B / Conference Hall | ₹225,191.75 |
| Logistics | ₹16,285.00 |
| Reimbursement | ₹85,004.77 |
| Travel | ₹53,706.30 |
| Total | ₹380,187.82 |
Remaining funds
[edit]- ₹560.18
Do you have any remaining grant funds?
Anything else
[edit]Anything else you want to share about your project?
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