The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday
June 18, 2012
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
"Wikimedia and Wikipedia"
Trevor Parscal and Roan Kattouw, Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is the non-profit organization behind
Wikipedia and several other online collaborative wiki projects.
The foundation's goal is to develop and maintain open content,
wiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those
projects to the public free of charge.
Wikimedia currently runs on dedicated clusters of Ubuntu Linux
servers, with a pair of OpenSolaris machines for ZFS. There are 400
servers in Tampa, Florida, and 60 in Amsterdam, as well as 450 in
Virginia that are still being built out. The operation of Wikimedia
depends on MediaWiki, a custom-made, free and open source wiki
software platform written in PHP and built upon the MySQL database.
About the Speakers:
Trevor Parscal has been working at the Wikimedia Foundation since
2008, focusing his engineering and design efforts on the front-end of
MediaWiki. Key projects he's worked on include redesigning the look
and feel of Wikipedia and creating ResourceLoader which optimizes the
way JavaScript, CSS and image resources are sent to the client.
His most recent work has been building a visual editor for Wikipedia.
Roan Kattouw has been a MediaWiki developer since 2007 and has been
working for the Wikimedia Foundation since 2009. Roan has worked on
usability improvements for Wikipedia and on ResourceLoader, a front-end
resource delivery system, and is now working on building the visual
editor with Trevor. Roan also works on various small things, ranging
from JavaScript code review to MediaWiki backend hacking to deploying
code on the cluster.
This meeting will be held at:
Yolo County Library, Mary L. Stephen's Davis Branch
Blanchard Community Room
315 East 14th Street
Davis, California 95616
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