Hey folks, I wanted to reach out to you to invite you to attend the Wikimedia Developer Summit[1]. It's an annual meeting to push the evolution of MediaWiki and other technologies supporting the Wikimedia movement. The next edition will be held in San Francisco on January 9-11, 2017. Registration is free. Travel scholarships can be applied for through Monday, Oct 24th. I'm specifically reaching out to this list because there has been a lot of Wiki Research interested in *algorithms and the governing roles they play in open communities like Wikipedia*. I'll be facilitating a core topic on Algorithms at the dev summit. So far, I've proposed a few different sessions that I think researchers will be particularly interested in. - Building an AI wishlist for Wikimedia Projects[2] - Algorithmic dangers and transparency -- Best practices[3] - Where to surface AI in Wikimedia Projects[4] If your participation and/or independent session proposals are welcome! Important deadlines: - Monday, October 24: This is the last day to request travel sponsorship. Applying takes less than five minutes. - Monday, October 31: This is the last day to propose an activity. Bring the topics you care about! On-wiki discussion here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki /Topic:Td5wfd70vptn8eu4 Please feel free to forward this email to anyone who might be interested in attending! 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit 2. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147710 3. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147929 4. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148690 -Aaron, the Half Acre Science Maker