Hello all,

The scholarship process for the WikidataCon has just started!

If you want to request a scholarship for covering your traveling and accommodation expenses, please read carefully the dedicated page and fill the form: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Scholarships

If you encounter any problem, feel free to reach me.

Next steps are the call for submissions for the program, and the registration opening - stay tuned :)

Best,

On 19 May 2017 at 16:08, Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de wrote:

Hello all,

Here are some new information about the WikidataCon event https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017, that will take place in Berlin on October 28th-29th.

We just nominated the members of the two committees that will have an important role in the organization of the event. Thank you very much to all the applicants!

• Program committee: andrawaag

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Andrawaag, Spinster https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Spinster, Masssly https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Masssly

• Scholarship committee: Micru

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Micru, Venuslui https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Venuslui

For all the other topics, you can freely join *the volunteer groups https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Volunteer*, discuss on the talk page, suggest ideas.

I'm also glad to give you an overview of the *next steps for the WikidataCon*:

• Scholarship application process: June 8th-July 31st
• Call for submissions for the program: June 12th-July 31st
• Registration opening: June 19th (two other ticket releases are

planned in August and September)

• Selection of the scholarships recipients: August
• Review of the submissions for the program: August
• Announce of the program: September 1st

This dates can still evolve, I'll keep you informed. For more information, check Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017.

Last but not least: in order to be able to provide scholarships, and help people who can't afford the travel and accommodation to participate, we requested a grant from the WMF. This grant will be reviewed soon, and you can help by *endorsing the project*. For this, you can add a message at the bottom of the grant submission https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WMDE/WikidataCon. This would be very useful for the project! Cheers,

-- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata

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