http://hk.digitalfreedomfoundation.org/events-calendar#2013-08-01 They
have some events happening in August, so if you're in HK for Wikimania,
maybe you can also drop by DFF.
"The primary purpose of this organization is to raise the public
awareness of freedom and cooperation in digital life, its tools and its
products. In short we seek to promote the abilities to use, study, copy,
distribute and improve upon the work of others in the area of software,
hardware and culture."
I heard about DFF via Pockey Lam:
http://pockey.dao2.com/2013/06/dff-hong-kong-site-launched/
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://hk.digitalfreedomfoundation.org/events-calendar#2013-08-01 They
have some events happening in August, so if you're in HK for Wikimania,
maybe you can also drop by DFI.
"The primary purpose of this organization is to raise the public
awareness of freedom and cooperation in digital life, its tools and its
products. In short we seek to promote the abilities to use, study, copy,
distribute and improve upon the work of others in the area of software,
hardware and culture."
I heard about DFI via Pockey Lam:
http://pockey.dao2.com/2013/06/dff-hong-kong-site-launched/
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello,
UK confirmed it will collect in cash, 3k pounds from citizens from what she
calls 'High Risk' countries including India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and
Ghana.
In case persons from these countries should apply for the conference (of
which some will definitely) next year, will they have to pay this sum
themselves?
I'm raising this issue early because for at least, two consecutive times,
persons from Ghana couldn't make it to a Wikimania, all because of
visa-related issues in different forms.
I'm sure the WMUK knows of this policy from the Immigration of UK, and I
wish to find out what their thoughts about it are.
Can I say, persons from these countries are practically banned from next
years event?
thank you
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Hey all,
FYI
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/From-November-Indians-to-pay-Rs…
*India is among the six nations that will have to pay £3,000 as fee from
November 2013 to enter Britain.
**The scheme will be applicable to visitors from India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nigeria and Ghana. The fee of Rs 2.7 lakhs (at the
present exchange rate of Rs 90 for a pound) will be over and above all visa
costs.
*
Meanwhile, see you all in Hong Kong ;-)
*
*
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Thanks
Arnav (ricku).
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WikiSym, the 9th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
OpenSym, the 2013 International Symposium on Open Collaboration
August 5-7, 2013 | Hong Kong, China
Registration is open: http://wikisym.org/wsos2013/participating/registration
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The conference program is led by three renowned keynote speakers: Phil
Bourne, founding editor of PLOS, will talk about the era of open,
Pockey Lam, of the Digital Freedom Foundation, will talk about open
education, and Dario Taraborelli, of the Wikimedia Foundation, will
talk about current and future Wikipedia research.
The keynotes are enhanced by a strong research track on the different
aspects of open collaboration, namely wikis, Wikipedia, open source,
and open access.
Open space, community events and socializing during coffee breaks and
dedicated social events like the welcome reception and the conference
dinner complement and enhance the WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 experience.
An industry tutorial track ensures a healthy mixture of participants.
Come join us in Hong Kong, one of the most vibrant cities on this
planet, and learn how and why open collaboration is shaping the
future!
Learn more about the conference program: http://wikisym.org/wsos2013/program
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The 2013 Joint International Symposium on Open Collaboration (WikiSym
+ OpenSym 2013) is the premier conference on open collaboration
research, including wikis and social media, Wikipedia, free, libre,
and open source software, open access, open data and open government
research. WikiSym is in its 9th year and will be complemented by
OpenSym, a new conference on open collaboration research and an
adjunct to the successful WikiSym conference series.
WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 is the first conference to bring together the
different strands of open collaboration research, seeking to create
synergies and inspire new research between computer scientists, social
scientists, legal scholars, and everyone interested in understanding
open collaboration and how it is changing the world.
WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 will be held in Hong Kong, China, on August 5-7, 2013.
ACM In-cooperation with SIGWEB and SIGSOFT.
Sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation, Google, Cyberport, and TJEF.
Hello,
We would like to know how we can get a discount code on Dragonair or any
carrier for flights within the conference period? Manila or Clark to Hong
Kong.
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Wikimedia Philippines Inc.
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On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan <yuyu(a)wikimedia.hk
> wrote:
> yes, of course we will try in later stage
>
> however, I am not sure if you can asks for support for local
> (as we did this year, and some ppl in the opensource industry willing to
> support a few of us go to DC this year :)
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Butch Bustria <butch(a)wikimedia.org.ph>wrote:
>
>> Jeromy,
>>
>> I hope you can extend asking similar support to budget carriers for those
>> travelling short distance like us.
>>
>>
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>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:07 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The DC organisers havent done a good job of providing useful
>>> information or services to other chapters.
>>>
>>> When scholarships are announced close to the event, e.g. like WM 2012,
>>> the flights are very expensive. Donor money is wasted. When do you
>>> expect registration will open?
>>>
>>> Also if WMAU chapter is providing scholarships, it would be good to
>>> know how much discount Cathy Pacific provide, so we can check the
>>> discounted price means they are the cheapest carrier, e.g. compared
>>> with Qantas. If we can get cheaper rates, it means we can send more
>>> people.
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan
>>> <yuyu(a)wikimedia.hk> wrote:
>>> > Well, the mechanism will work similarly as DC this year
>>> >
>>> > that when you registered the conference, you will receive a discount
>>> code
>>> > then you can buy from the Cathay Pacific website with discount
>>> >
>>> > that's generally how the thing work
>>> >
>>> > actual procedure may be a little bit difference
>>> > so we will keep you posted
>>> >
>>> > (as actually I talked about the bid and the offer we got with DC team
>>> in
>>> > Berlin
>>> > and they pick up and do it)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:17 AM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> is there someone who will be looking at/organising bulk flight
>>> >> discounts with carriers who service many countries in this region?
>>> >>
>>> >> we should try to estimate numbers of attendees from each country.
>>> >>
>>> >> --
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>>> >>
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>>> > ChapCom/ComCom, Wikimedia Foundation
>>> > Communications Co-Head, Wikimania HK Bidding Team
>>> > also Jeromyu on twitter, plurk and most of places
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Dear all,
Wikimania 2013 schedule is posted at
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule
If...
- your submission(s) is accepted but cannot deliver,
- see any sessions overlap, time clash, mismatch,
- did not receiving any email update about your submission(s),
- have any ideas to improve it,
please let us know.
Submissions review score is also posted on wm2013 at
http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission_review
Thanks to the programme committee to help us review and rate all
submissions. Special thanks to Deror Avi to help us squeeze everything
together.
Sincerely,
Simon Shek
Wikimania 2013 programme chair / Wikimedia Hong Kong
Dear Wikimania community,
There are currently two discussions on Meta which will have a fundamental
impact on the technical logistics of all future Wikimania bids.
As many of you would know, working documents of Wikimania bids, such as
letters of support and venue information, are conventionally uploaded to
Meta locally because they don't come with a Commons-compatible free
licence. However, currently there's no explicit "exemption doctrine policy"
on Meta, so two discussions are ongoing, with the aim of deleting all
Wikimania-related non-free files which have been uploaded in the past
years[1], and to ban future uploads of non-free media to Meta including
Wikimedia events' working documents[2].
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Requests_for_deletion#All_files_in_Cate…
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel#Restrict_or_abolish_local_file_up…
Since this would mean future Wikimania bids may not include copies of
third-party working documents on Meta, these proposals will change the
logistics of Wikimania bids completely. I therefore urge all of you to
scrutinise the proposed changes and comment as appropriate.
Deryck
WM2013 local team
PS. To those of you who also run chapters: the proposed changes will mean
that chapter financial statements may not be uploaded to / will be deleted
from WMF-hosted wikis since they're have an implicit no-derivative
requirement.