Dear Markus,
It is true, however it is not mandatory for the participants to join the event physically. It will be possible to present remotely, and if that is not possible in the short timeframe (which is due to Nordic Open Data Week happening and the external funder), someone from Wikimedia Sverige will present that finalist inline with the submission, and it will not count negatively by the jury at all (the submission should ideally be pretty much a good presentation in itself).
I will update the wiki page to make this clear, thanks for pointing it out.
*Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*
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2015-05-27 10:25 GMT+02:00 Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org:
Dear Jan,
I just wondered about the timeline you have for this event. Is it true that the submission deadline is 1 June 2015, and that the ten finalists are then expected to present their work in Sweden on 4 June 2015? Or is this a typo? Three days seem to be a very short time to select finalists and to have the finalist plan a journey to a conference.
Regards,
Markus
On 26.05.2015 21:54, Jan Ainali wrote:
Hi,
I just wanted to let you know that there has been a few more prizes added to the contest (including a travel grant to Brazil!). Please checkout http://wvc.se for an update list.
Also, if people here are planing to join the contest, please list yourself (non-binding) on this list [1], to help us that arranges this to be prepared on the scale of the number of participants.
[1]
https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:%C3%96ppna_data_2015/Visualisering/T%C...
/Med vänliga hälsningar, Jan Ainali/
Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://wikimedia.se 0729 - 67 29 48
/Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör./ Bli medlem. http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se
2015-05-04 16:13 GMT+02:00 Jan Ainali <jan.ainali@wikimedia.se mailto:jan.ainali@wikimedia.se>:
Hello, Today a Wikidata Visualization Challenge starts, a competition aimed to make it easier to understand the value of Wikidata, what is in there, and/or how it is being created. The challenge ends June 1 and there are some nice prizes available. Checkout http://wvc.se <http://wvc.se/> for more details. /Best regards, Jan Ainali/ CEO, Wikimedia Sverige <http://wikimedia.se> /Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör./ Bli medlem. <http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se>
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