This is a Wikipedia/Wikimedia hackathon, where developers are invited to come write cool hacks on top of the amazingly large amount of data that the wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquotes, Wikisource, etc) expose in a huge variety of languages. Hacks can be anything, from an android app that gives you 'situation' quotes from Wikiquote based on sentiment analysis of your text messages to app that gives you wonderful images of the places you are at using Commons to beautiful visualizations with wikipedia edit histories to automatic song/album information gathering from wikipedia to amazing dictionary interfaces across languages using Wiktionary to anything else that you can dream up. We'll have a few people who have experience with the various APIs/data available.

Note: This is not a MediaWiki hackathon - Patches/Extensions to MediaWiki are most welcome, but you are by no means restricted to that.

Please do not register if you are not comfortable with writing software. Space availability is limited, so please apply as soon as possible.

Please be aware that there are no scholarships for attending this event.

More details : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012