So I’ve just confirmed today that I’ll be attending Wikimedia Deutscheland’s second annual developer conference in Berlin, during mid-April.

I’m super-excited about catching up and going out with everyone, and then getting together and doing some really awesome things to MediaWiki by day. I know from my experiences in Buenos Aires last August and in Paris last November that when you get a bunch of developers in the same place at the same time, you can get all sorts of amazing things done.

I’m hoping that I’ll be able to spend 15–20 minutes showing off LiquidThreads to a wider developer audience, and getting some feedback. It’s also going to be great to see how Chad’s new installer, and Ævar’s mapping stuff is going (to name two projects off the top of my head). We’re also going to talk about some new stuff, like metadata handling, better support for dumps and subscriptions, OpenID/OAuth implementation, and much more.

I’ll also be glad that we’ll be able to talk about some of the boring (but really important) issues facing MediaWiki development, like bug tracking, code maintenance, code review, unit testing and patch submission. It’s always great to get these issues sorted through, and the best way is to lock everybody in a room until we sort it out.

It’s going to be awesome!