Grants:Project/Rapid/Hackathon 2022/Greece Ionian University
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Project Goal[edit]
Briefly explain what are you trying to accomplish with this project, or what do you expect will change as a result of this grant. Example goals include, "recruit new editors", "add high quality content", or "train existing editors on a specific skill".
The main scope of this pre-hackathon workshop in Corfu is to reach out to new developers and turn them into regular contributors as well as to strengthen community. We welcome developers, humanists and academics to attend.
One main topic of our pre-hackathon is to prepare attendees for a data challenge entitled “Corfu and the United States of the Ionian Islands”.
Specifically we aim to:
- recruit new editors inviting them to participate in a local pre-hackathon workshop and the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022
- train existing and new editors in a)the Wikimedia Phabricator, b)the SPARQL query language and Wikidata Query Service and c)the PAWS/Jupyter notebooks for Python beginners
Project Plan[edit]
Activities[edit]
Tell us how you'll carry out your project. What will you and other organizers spend your time doing?
We have designed a series of in-person events and distant activities. Following we present the detailed program outline.
Organizer team and volunteers meetup | 10 April 2022 | 8 May 2022 | Corfu, Greece
The 1st organizer team and volunteers meetup will take place on 10th of April 2022 in Corfu as an in person event and organisers will have the opportunity to meet with volunteers in order to assign specific roles for both the pre-hackathon workshop as well as for the Wikimedia hackathon. Organisers have already contacted the Ionian IEEE Student Branch in order to support us as volunteers.
Sunday 10 April 2022 12:00-15:00 : getting to know each other and discussing
The 2nd organizer team and volunteers meetup will take place on 8th of May 2022 in Corfu as an in person event and organisers will have the opportunity to catch up with volunteers and inform them about their roles for both the pre-hackathon workshop as well as for the Wikimedia hackathon. Organisers have already contacted the Ionian IEEE Student Branch in order to support us as volunteers.
Sunday 8 May 2022 11:00-15:00 : catch up meeting and discussing
Pre-Hackathon in Corfu | 13 May 2022 | Corfu, Greece
The Pre-Hackathon workshop Corfu 2022 will take place on 13th of May 2022 in Corfu, Greece at the Ionian University, Dept. of Informatics. It is a warm up event linked to Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 and it will be focused on our local community and cultural heritage. It's an event organized by Wikimedia Foundation / Wikimedia Community Greece, in collaboration with Marios Magioladitis, long standing Wikipedian and president of the Wikimedia Community Greece, and Eleni Christopoulou and Dimitrios Ringas, members of the lab teaching staff of the Department of Informatics, Ionian University.
Scope
The main scope of this pre-hackathon workshop in Corfu is to reach out to new developers and turn them into regular contributors as well as to strengthen community. We welcome developers, humanists and academics to attend. One main topic of our pre-hackathon is to prepare attendees for a data challenge entitled “Corfu and the United States of the Ionian Islands”.
Program Outline
Friday 13 May 2022 @ Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Open welcome |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Friendly Space Policy Explained |
| 10:20 – 11:00 | Introduction to Wikimedia world. Specially addressed to academics, researchers and newcomers. Wikipedia, Wikidata....
Phabricator … Marios Magioladitis |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | SPARQL and Wikidata Query Service, Eleni Christopoulou |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Intro to PAWS/Jupyter notebooks for Python beginners, Dimitrios Ringas |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Pre-hackathon formal presentation |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Pitch of proposals, projects and ideas |
| 15:00 – 20:00 | Hacking time |
| 20:00 – 20:15 | Group picture |
| 20:15 – 22:00 | Dinner |
Wikimedia Hackathon 20-22 May 2022 @ Corfu
Friday 20 May 2022 @ Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| und. (15’) | Opening and Introduction, Organizing team |
| und. (10') | Friendly Space Policy Explained |
| und. | Watching the opening together |
| und. (30’) | Newcomers Q & A, Marios Magioladitis |
| und. (2 hours) | Workshop @ Corfu - Data Challenge “Corfu and the United States of the Ionian Islands”, Eleni Christopoulou, Dimitrios Ringas, Marios Magioladitis - Participants will retrieve from wikidata items related to Corfu and the United States of the Ionian Islands focusing on pieces of arts and cultural monuments. The data challenge topic is inspired from the national holiday of 21st of May for the Unification of the Ionian Islands with Greece. |
| und. (15’) | Group picture |
| und. (1 hour) | Lunch |
| und. (3 hours) | Participants are free to follow and comment either the main track of sessions or other workshops and sessions |
| und. (30’) | Announcement of Data challenge winners |
| 20:15 – 22:00 | Dinner |
Saturday 21 May 2022 – National Holiday in Corfu
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 11:00 – 13:00 | Share local sounds - Social event - On the occasion of the national holiday “The Unification of the Ionian Islands with Greece” participants are welcome to join in a Jitsi room. They can walk outside and stream local sounds, as the philharmonic bands of the city of Corfu accompany the parade. |
| und. | Participants are free to follow and comment either the main track of sessions or other workshops and sessions from their own space. |
Sunday 23 May 2022
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| und. | Participants are free to follow and comment either the main track of sessions or other workshops and sessions from their own space. |
| und. | Closing and Showcase - All participants will attend, from their own space, and organisers from Corfu will present the data challenge outcome. |
How will you let others in your community know about your project (please provide links to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions)? Why are you targeting a specific audience?
- Greek Wikipedia main page
- Wikimedia Community User Group Greece Facebook page
- Wikimedia Community User Group Greece Official website
- Marios Magioladitis website
- Marios Magioladitis social media pages (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn)
- Local media (TV, radio, newspapers)
- Ionian University Website
- Facebook Group of Ionian University
- Department of Informatics (Ionian University) Website
- Facebook Group of Department of Informatics, Ionian University
- LinkedIn Ionian University
- We are targeting mainly the community of Ionian University and especially the students of the Department of Informatics aiming to reach out new developers. We believe that they will benefit of the new skills that they will acquire and we can turn them into regular contributors. Additionally, such events will strengthen the community of the Ionian University and participating students will invite more students to be part of the Wikimedia Community.
What will you have done at the end of your project? How will you follow-up with people that are involved with your project?
- Our main goal is to develop a permanent collaboration among the Department of Informatics and the community of the Ionian University with the Wikimedia Community and engage students to be active members of this community. We believe that the participants of this event will play a catalytic role and will eventually be our ambassadors for future events.
- All participants will be asked to fill out a Google Form adding their email to Wikimedia Community User Group
- All participants will be asked to fill out a post-event evaluation survey
- We aim to publish a research paper based on this event taking into account the expectations of participants, prior knowledge and experience in similar activities and the final outcome
Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:
Risk Assessment Tool - Hackathon 2022 Greece Ionian University
Impact[edit]
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more specific to your project:
- Number of total participants: 100
- Number of new editors: 40
- Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: Photos from the event will be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons under Cc-by-Sa v. 5.0
- Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects (if applicable): Greek Wikipedia keeps a record of all Wikimedia events happening in Greece
Resources[edit]
What resources do you have? Include information on who is the organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).
Organizer Team
Marios Magioladitis, president of the Wikimedia Community Greece and long standing Wikipedian
Dr. Dimitrios Ringas, Lab Teaching Staff, Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University
Dr. Eleni Christopoulou, Lab Teaching Staff, Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University
Marios Magioladitis is in charge of the success of the event and each member of the organizer team will take the following roles:
Marios Magioladitis
- Project lead
- Communications manager
- Social liaison
Eleni Christopoulou
- Program manager
- Volunteer coordinator
- Participant manager
- Coordinator of medical response and Covid-19 cases
Dimitrios Ringas
- Technical coordinator
- Venue logistics coordinator
- Sponsors manager
Resources provided from the Department of Informatics, Ionian University
The Pre-Hackathon Corfu 2022 is organized by Wikimedia Foundation / Wikimedia Community User Group Greece, in collaboration with Marios Magioladitis, long-standing Wikipedian and president of the Wikimedia Community Greece, and Eleni Christopoulou and Dimitrios Ringas, members of the lab teaching staff of the Department of Informatics, Ionian University. The Department of Informatics of the Ionian University will accommodate this event and host all the in-person events and activities.
The Department of Informatics of the Ionian University is the only department in Greece adopting an interdisciplinary association of information and communication technologies in the humanities. The Department’s mission is to advance scientific and research activities relating to the design, use, applications and implications of information technology.
The Department of Informatics is located in the building “Aretaios” in the center of the city (7 Tsirigoti Square, Corfu), which is directly accessible using public transportation. The airport and the port are within a 15-minute distance.
- The department has two computer laboratories and three lecture halls, which can facilitate participants to work on their projects. The Dept. of Informatics is offering us the venue for all events for free.
- From all the halls participants will have access to the Internet via the local Ethernet 1 Gbps network. The building is wirelessly connected to the central hub of Ionian University.
- Participants may also have access to network printers if they need to print work or material.
Resources provided from Corfu Tech Lab, National Historic Library of Corfu
- The Corfu Tech Lab will provide 10 laptops for students who don't have their own laptop
- The tech lab will also provide a video projector
Additional funding
- other sponsors will provide in-kind donations
- other sponsors will also provide minor prizes
- local media will be communication sponsors
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense:
- We will need the following:
| No | Category | Description | Units | Cost/unit | Total Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Print materials | Name tags, certificates, etc. | 100 | €2.00 | €200.00 |
| 2 | Banners | Printing promotional banners, etc. | 2 | €100 | €200.00 |
| 3 | Posters | Colourful posters for the event to distribute to the University etc. | 25 | €2.00 | €50.00 |
| 4 | Print material | Handouts, etc. | 50 | €10.00 | €500.00 |
| 5 | Food & Beverages | Brunch for the organizer team and volunteers 1st meetup before Hackathon - 10 April 2022 (date to be defined) | 15 | €20 | €300.00 |
| 6 | Food & Beverages | Brunch for the organizer team and volunteers 2nd meetup before Hackathon - 8 May 2022 (date to be defined) | 15 | €20 | €300.00 |
| 7 | Food & Beverages | Lunch / Dinner / Drinks for the in-person event - pre-hackathon workshop - 13 May 2022 (~40 participants) | 45 | €20.00 | €900.00 |
| 8 | Food & Beverages | Lunch / Dinner / Drinks for the in-person event during Hackathon - 20 May 2022 (~40 participants) | 45 | €20.00 | €900.00 |
| 9 | Travel | Transportation - tickets to and from Athens for community meetup | 3 | €300.00 | €900.00 |
| 10 | Unforeseen expenses | Expenses that are not projected in the budget but may still occur | n/a | €150.00 | €150.00 |
- Total cost of project
- €4,400.00
Endorsements[edit]
- Endorse as main organiser. I have organised similar events in the past. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:33, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
- This project obviously has the potency to reach out to new developers and turn them into regular contributors. Geraki TL 08:33, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
- I support the grant request. The program and the budget are reasonable. I have cooperated with Marios in the past in different projects and he is very good organizing quality events. Spouliasis (talk) 11:55, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
- It is a very promising project, put together by an experienced organiser. Seems like a great opportunity for recruiting regular contributors! -- Annakonta (talk) 08:54, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
- I believe this project will be beneficial for the University students and wikipedia. Miltoskoustas (talk) 09:04, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
- Endorse It is a project that will strengthen our community.--MARKELLOSLeave me a message
- 100% endorse. I believe this project will meet expectations and it will benefit Ionian University students as well as wikipedia community. Over the years, Marios proved that he has the experience and the capacity to host similar projects successfully. Desantonop (talk) 16:33, 19 March 2022 (UTC)