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From: Brooke Storm <bstorm(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 1:03 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] PyCon Financial Assistance and Development Sprints
Info
To: <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Foundation Optional <
foundation-optional(a)wikimedia.org>, <tech-all(a)wikimedia.org>
Hello Folks!
For the Python enthusiasts on these lists, I’m signal boosting this message
with info on PyCon dev sprints and financial assistance for the conference
from a former Wikimedia colleague.
I plan to attend PyCon this year and am also hoping to figure out setting
up a development sprint around some Wikimedia Cloud Services and Toolforge
code.
Brooke Storm
SRE
Wikimedia Cloud Services
bstorm(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:bstorm@wikimedia.org>
IRC: bstorm_
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I wanted to mention - feel free to pass this on publicly and in personal
invitations - that PyCon North America, mid-April in Pennsylvania,
offers financial assistance to people who would like to attend:
https://us.pycon.org/2020/financial-assistance/ <
https://us.pycon.org/2020/financial-assistance/>
The deadline for requesting financial assistance is 31 January.
PyCon loves to cross-pollinate with other free and open source
movements, and I know there are many Python developers in Wikimedia
tech. If Wikimedians want to use the April 20-23 in-person sprints
https://us.pycon.org/2020/events/sprints/ <
https://us.pycon.org/2020/events/sprints/> (will be editable soon)
to work on Wikimedia-related Python tools together, that would be cool!
Best wishes.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Changeset Consulting
https://changeset.nyc <https://changeset.nyc/>
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*The WebConf (WWW) Call for Papers: Demo Track*
April 20-24, 2020
Taipei, Taiwan
https://www2020.thewebconf.org/
*Important Dates*
• Submission deadline: January 06, 2020
• Notification: February 10, 2020
For almost three decades, the Web Conference series has been the premier
venue for researchers, academics, businesses and standards bodies to come
together and discuss latest updates and the future of the Web. The
Demonstration Track of the Web Conference has become an important venue for
sharing cutting-edge and exciting web-based prototype systems with
significant research and development efforts. The Demonstrations Track
allows researchers and practitioners to demonstrate first-hand visionary
systems with innovative features and functionalities in a dedicated
session. Submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that
pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the
conference.
*Topics include (but are not limited to)*
● Health on the Web
● Behavioral analysis and personalization
● Crowdsourcing systems and social media
● Bio-feedback and emotional computation
● New human-computer interfaces
● Internet economics, monetization, and online markets
● Pervasive Web and mobility
● Security, privacy, and trust
● Semantics and knowledge
● Semantic Web, content analysis, and Web mining
● Social networks, social analysis, and computational social science
● Web infrastructure: datacenters, cloud computing, and systems
● User modeling, personalization, and experience
● Mobile, ubiquitous, ambient, and pervasive computation, Web of Things
● Web science, Web search, and Web systems
Demonstrations are encouraged from academic researchers, from industrial
practitioners with prototypes or in-production deployments, as well as from
any W3C-related activities to interact while exploring the latest
techniques for managing web information and knowledge. Software (including
games or learning platforms) and hardware demos will be considered equally,
provided they show innovative use of Web-based techniques. Each submission
must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how.
What exactly will the audience experience? What are the interesting
scenarios to motivate the demonstration? They should strive to state the
significance of the contribution to Web technology or applications. In
other words, submissions should describe the intended audience, point out
the innovative aspects of the system being demonstrated, and explain how
those aspects contribute to the state of the art in the Web and information
technology. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the track
program committee, who will judge the originality, significance, quality,
and clarity of each submission.
*Submission Guidelines*
Demonstration Track submissions must be formatted according to the ACM SIG
Proceedings Template and are limited to four pages (including references
and appendices). It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that
submissions adhere strictly to the required format. The format cannot be
modified with the objective of squeezing in more material. Submissions that
do not comply with the formatting guidelines will be rejected without
review.
Each demonstration track submission should contain an introduction, brief
description, screenshots, value and contribution. Submissions should also
indicate how the demonstration will be demonstrated and the hardware
requirements (for the organizers).
Submissions must be double-blinded. Submissions must be in PDF and must be
made through the EasyChair system (Demonstrations Track):
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2020
At least one author of each accepted demonstration paper must register for
the conference and attend in person to demonstrate the system during the
demonstration sessions.
To better identify the value of demonstrations, as well as to reach out to
external audiences, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a
screencast, using web-accessible platforms such as Vimeo or YouTube. The
maximum duration of screencasts is 10 minutes. We also highly encourage any
external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub).
*Track Co-chairs*
Hsu-Chun Hsiao (National Taiwan University)
De-Nian Yang (Academia Sinica)
Email: demos2020(a)thewebconf.org