Dear users, developers and all people interested in semantic wikis,

We are very happy to announce that early bird registration to the 12th Semantic MediaWiki Conference is now open!

*Important facts reminder:*

* Dates: October 28th to October 30th 2015 (Wednesday to Friday) * Location: Fabra i Coats, Art Factory. Carrer Sant Adrià 20 (Sant Andreu), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. * Conference page: https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015 * Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in Semantic MediaWiki, e.g. users, developers, consultants, business representatives and researchers.

*We welcome new contributions from you:*

* We encourage contributions about applications and development of semantic wikis; for a list of topics, see [1]. * Please propose regular talks, posters or workshops on the conference website. We will do our best to consider your proposal in the conference program. An interesting variety of talks has already be proposed, see [2]. * Presentations will generally be video and audio recorded and made available for others after the conference. * If you've already announced your talk it's now time to expand its description.

*News on participation and tutorials:*

* You can now officially register for the conference [3] and benefit from early bird fees until October 5, 2015. * The tutorial program has been announced and made available [4].

*Organization:*

* Amical Wikimedia [5] and Open Semantic Data Association e. V. [6] have become the official organisers of SMWCon Fall 2015 * Thanks to Institut de Cultura - Ajuntament de Barcelona [7] for providing free access to the conference location and its infrastructure

If you have questions you can contact Lia Veja and Karsten Hoffmeyer (Program Chairs), Alina Mierluș (General Chair) or Toni Hermoso (Local Chair) per e-mail (Cc).

We will be happy to see you in Barcelona!

Lia Veja, Karsten Hoffmeyer (Program Board)

[1] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015/Announcement [2] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015#Program_proposals [3] https://ti.to/wikisofia/smwcon2015-fall [4] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015#Program [5] https://www.wikimedia.cat/ [6] https://opensemanticdata.org/ [7] http://lameva.barcelona.cat/barcelonacultura/en/