Hello all, The call for submissions for Wikimania 2018 is now open! If you have any idea regarding Wikidata, if you plan to submit something, if you're looking for people to help with running a workshop... feel free to coordinate on Wikidata:Wikimania 2018 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2018>. The deadline for all kind of submissions is March 18th, pretty soon already. Don't miss it! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Liam Wyatt &lt;liamwyatt(a)gmail.com&gt; Date: 5 February 2018 at 07:21 Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2018 Call for Submissions To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" < wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;gt;, Wikimedia Mailing List < wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Cc: Program committee list &lt;wikimania-program(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Dear Wikimedia community, We are pleased to announce that Wikimania 2018 is now accepting proposals for workshops, discussions, presentations, or research posters to give during the conference. To read the full instructions visit the event wiki and click on the link provided there to make your proposal: https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions The deadline for submissions is 23:59 UTC on *Sunday March 18, 2018*. This is approximately 6 weeks away. Whether you are a community member of one of the Wikimedia projects, or a fellow open content creator or consumer, we welcome your proposal for a session. *Theme* This year, the conference will be taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, where the organisers are giving this Wikimania a unique flavor — an explicit theme based in African philosophy: “Bridging knowledge gaps, the *ubuntu* way forward.” Read more about this theme, why it was chosen, and what it means for the conference program at the Wikimedia blog: *https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/05/wikimania-cape-town-ubuntu/ <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/05/wikimania-cape-town-ubuntu/>* Throughout the conference program, this theme will be tightly held, but loosely defined - in order to encourage a diverse range of responses to the theme. It is our hope that this theme will give us the opportunity to further our goal of creating the “sum of human knowledge”, by encouraging greater diversity and inclusion in who participates and what we discuss at Wikimania. To learn more, and to make a proposal for the conference, please visit: https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions Please forward this announcement to other lists and groups across the Wikimedia movement. <https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions> We look forward to reading your submissions. Sincerely, *Program committee co-chairs Emna Mizouni, Felix Nartey, and Liam Wyatt.* _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.