== Invitation to events: bot, template, and Gadget makers wanted == 

 I thought you might want to know about some upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, extending functionality with JavaScript, the future of ResourceLoader and Gadgets, the new Lua templating system, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes.  We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing. 

 Check out the Chennai event in March, the Berlin hackathon in June, the developers' days preceding Wikimania in July in Washington, DC, or any other of our events. 

 Best wishes! 
 - Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer Development Coordinator.  Please reply on my talk page, here or at mediawiki.org.