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http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
by simonpedia 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi Guys, Sorry to wake yu up. Cary wrote, “.I am copying Mr. Berners-Lee to ask him to kindly please disregard your Email”. Sorry, if I’d known you didn’t want him to talk, I wouldn’t have asked him. Pheobe wrote, “There's a page to brainstorm ideas here: HYPERLINK "http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas"http://wikimania2008. wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas” Sorry. The only ideas for sessions I see here are mine, from December. Samuel wrote, “ps - Please note : he may show up incognito even when he declines to speak”. Sorry, He might, Now he knows there’s something going on. You’ll really have to forgive me. If yu are having conversations, which I (or anyone else can’t see) I won’t know about them of course. So you’ll understand that activity needs to be seen to be understood. I’m just used to a culture where conversations happen above the radar. If you understand that I’m used to producing (primarily the AV stuff for) conferences for 8,000 min this is so very late in the day. And I’d really like to see the WMF’s communities understand what, globally, is going on. Sorry, simon. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.20/1260 - Release Date: 5/02/2008 9:44 AM

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http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
by simonpedia 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Dear Tim (Berners-Lee), I’m writing to you on behalf of the organising committee for Wikimania. This is the annual conference for the Wikimedia Foundation. Don’t think I need to tell yo what they do.No.8 on Alexa’s top 500. Yes, please; a talk. Just half an hour at most. We’d (all right, I) would really like some insight into what you where thinking when you did the first prop to CERN’s management about your “Information Management” idea in . And what prop you would offer them today. The audience is WMF’s universe, which is just starting to grow now as their Head Office have, literally, just moved to San Fran and employed a whole bunch of new recruits. So they are really looking for some ideas about what should be their next steps. Alexandria’s a long way, but please don’t let that stop you. I’m sure we could organise a link between your present (Uni) home and Egypt’s new National Library’s auditorium. In fact I’d like to encourage it as it might help to get the information centric to reconsider their communication’s networking. I’m trying to see of we could strap together a mini-megaconference. HYPERLINK "http://digitalunion.osu.edu/megaconference/"http://digitalunion.osu.edu/meg aconference/ And to be quite blunt, we need a headline act. (no guitar required) If you are interested, these are some other ideas floating around the WMF traps. HYPERLINK "http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas"http://wikimania2008. wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas We could see about a global workshop if you wanted to suggest something interesting. Appreciate your interest, and your time. If you’d like to say yea or nay, just a reply on this list would encourage people who don’t believe God’s talk. Obsequiously yours, Simon Fenton- Jones No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.19/1258 - Release Date: 4/02/2008 10:10 AM

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Wikimania Jury meeting Number 1
by Cary Bass 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

The Wikimania Jury meeting number 1 will be beginning place within the next half hour, at 0300 UTC. This meeting is taking place on irc channel #wikimania, and will be moderated. We expect the Brisbane team will be making its presentation, although we're not certain if any of the other teams will be there. If you don't have an IRC client, you can utilize the web based client at <http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC> and choose channel #wikimania. If this page does not load properly for you, then go to <http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi> and pick #wikimania from the drop-down list of channels. If you cannot make this one, and would still like to attend, meeting number 2 will be held at 1500 UTC, in just over 12 hours. Thanks. Cary Bass For the moderators Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. E-Mail: cbass(a)wikimedia.org

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Wikimania meetings this weekend
by Mark (Markie) 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

Okay there seems to be some confusion about wikimania meetings this weekend so i hope this will clear it up. Wikimania *2008* Program committee meeting is at *7UTC*, on 3 Feb in * #wikimania2008* Wikimania *2009* Bid/general planning and Q&A sessions will be at* 3UTC *and *15UTC* on 3 Feb in *#wikimania* (this may change but the topic in wikimania will tell you of any changes) Many thanks and apologies for any confusion caused. Best wishes Mark

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Wikimania 2008: Call for Participation
by Casey Brown 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

Please circulate this call among Wikimedia communities, researchers and other people that may be interested! This call is also online at http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation == Wikimania 2008: Call for Participation == [[w:Wikimania|Wikimania]] is an annual global event devoted to [[foundation:Main Page|Wikimedia]] projects around the globe (including [[w:Main page|Wikipedia]], [[:w:b:en:Main page|Wikibooks]], [[:w:s:en:Main page|Wikisource]], [[:en:n:Main page|Wikinews]], [[:w:wikt:en:Main page|Wiktionary]], [[:w:v:en:Main page|Wikiversity]], [[:m:q:en:Main page|Wikiquote]], [[:species:Main page|Wikispecies]], and [[:commons:Main page|Wikimedia Commons]]) and for its editors and users to gather, meet each other, exchange ideas, and report on research and projects. It is a community event, which is also open to the public and to researchers. This year's conference will be held from '''July 17-19, 2008''' in [[w:Alexandria|Alexandria]], [[w:Egypt|Egypt]] at the new Library of Alexandria ([[w:Bibliotheca Alexandrina|Bibliotheca Alexandrina]]). For more information, please visit the Wikimania 2008 Home page at http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org We are accepting submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, posters, open spaces, and artistic artifacts. Please carefully follow the submission guidelines below. Submissions can be sent via the following link: :https://wikimedia.pentabarf.org/submission/wikimania2008 === Important dates === * 1 February – 16 March : Submission * 17 March – 30 April : Review, feedback and notification of acceptance * 17 – 19 July 2007 : '''Wikimania''' === Conference Tracks === Submissions should address one or more of the following themes: ; Wikimedia Communities : Interesting projects and particularities within the communities; policy creation within individual projects; conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and identity; multi-lingualism, languages and cultures; social studies. We explicitly invite you to discuss your local Wikimedia project's community. ; Free Knowledge : Open access to information; ways to gather and distribute free knowledge, usage of the Wikimedia projects in education, journalism, research; ways to improve content quality and usability; copyright laws and other legal areas that interfere with Wikimedia projects. Free Content in the Middle-East/Africa. ; Technical infrastructure : Issues related to MediaWiki development and extensions; Wikimedia's technical infrastructure; new ideas for development (including case studies from other wikis or similar projects). ; Scientific track : Papers about massively collaborative work, open and free content creation, community dynamics, the social or economic aspects of the Wikimedia projects, and other topics related to Wikimedia projects. Papers submitted to the scientific track will be peer reviewed by a reviewing committee regarding their novelty, rigour, and estimated impact, and accepted or rejected based on these reviews. The papers will be published in proceedings afterwards, and depending on the number and the quality of the submissions, a journal special issue may be pursued. Scientific track papers must be in English, and must not exceed 7,500 words (or 15 pages LNCS). Your topic must be related either to the Wikimedia projects and their communities, or to the creation of free content in general. === Types of Submissions === We are seeking submissions for * presentations (10–30 minute talks with discussion afterwards) * workshops (60–120 minute session with more involvement of the audience) * panels (group of 2-5 speakers to discuss on a specific subject) * posters (printed presentations or visual displays that can stand on their own) * artistic artifacts (plays, competitions, comedy, visualizations, or other representations of some aspect of the projects) In addition there will the possibility to give [[lightning talks]] (5 minute short presentations). These will be organized on the Wikimania 2008 wiki without need to submit via the submission system. === Submission Guidelines === Wikimania is organized by volunteers, so please help us minimize wasted effort by submitting via the [[submission]] system and following these guidelines. All submissions MUST explicitly include the following: # an English "Event title" # a short English "Abstract" of your event in 50 to 100 words. The abstract will be used for the public schedule. # the "Track" your submission fits in best (Wikimedia Communities, Free Knowledge, Technical infrastructure, or Scientific) # the "Event type" (presentation, workshop, panel, poster, artistic...) # information about the speaker (full name, email, a short description of at least 2 sentences...) # for submissions to the scientific track: set "Submission of paper for proceedings" to "yes" and upload a paper instead of the "Description" below as "Attachment". Papers must be in English, and must not exceed 7,500 words. In addition you can add some more information like a a subtitle of the event, an image (will be resized to 128x128px) and private "Submission notes" for reviewers and conference organisation. In particular you should give: * a more detailed "Description" of your event in English or Arabic. The description is essential for review: please give an overview of the areas to be covered or taught. The better you describe your submission, the more likely it will get accepted. State clearly the relevance to the Wikimedia projects and whether submission concerns a specific wiki project. You can also include links. The description will later be used for the public schedule but you can edit it before. * special requirements (such as equipment for a workshop or panel) if needed * the language used for presentation * whether you want to submit a paper for proceedings * whether you want to submit presentation slides * whether the presentation is intended to be a specific length * the target audience you are going to reach and what previous knowledge is needed * images or sketches of the poster or artistic artifact if available * for panel submissions a suggested moderator and short biographies of each suggested panelist In the "Submission notes" you should tell us whether you will attend to Wikimania (a) surely, (b) probably, (c) only if your submission is accepted, or (d) only if we provide travel and/or accommodation. You can also add yourself to the public list of attendees at the Wikimania 2008 wiki: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees Please note that all submissions must be dual licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 or later ''and'' the Creative Commons Attribution License! By submitting for Wikimania 2008 you agree to this condition. For more information see the submission guidelines at http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission ===Submissions=== Once you are sure you have included all of the required information, please send your submission before the respective deadline through our '''submission system''': :https://wikimedia.pentabarf.org/submission == See also == * About the venue: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Venue * Brainstorming page for program ideas: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas * Editable list of attendees: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees

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Public meetings dated February 3, 2008
by Cary Bass 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hello Wikimaniacs! Please consider this public notice that we have modified the public meeting in order to better accommodate the bidders as well as the jury. What this means is that we shall be having two public meetings rather than one; twelve hours apart. The first public meeting will take place at 03:00 (UTC), on Sunday, February 3. For people who are further west than UTC-3, this will be Saturday evening. Times for the first meeting are as follows: Brisbane (UTC+10) 13:00 Kathmandu (UTC+5:45) 08:45 Karlsruhe (UTC+1) 04:00 Buenos Aires (UTC-2) 01:00 Toronto (UTC-5) 22:00 SATURDAY Bogota (UTC-5) 22:00 SATURDAY San Francisco (UTC-8) 19:00 SATURDAY (well before Torchwood) The second public meeting will be at 15:00 (UTC), on Sunday, February 3. For people who are further east than UTC+9, this will be Monday morning Brisbane (UTC+10) 01:00 MONDAY Kathmandu (UTC+5:45) 20:45 Karlsruhe (UTC+1) 16:00 Buenos Aires (UTC-2) 13:00 Toronto (UTC-5) 10:00 Bogota (UTC-5) 10:00 San Francisco (UTC-8) 07:00 Bidding teams should decide on at least one (although they are free to attend both); however, please advise one of the moderators which one(s) you are going to be attending. Thanks, Cary Bass, for the Moderators

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Fwd: [Foundation-l] Usenix workshop on computer conferences
by phoebe ayers 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

Looks interesting! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> Date: Jan 25, 2008 3:20 PM Subject: [Foundation-l] Usenix workshop on computer conferences To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> This workshop may be of interest to the WMF staff, and those doing or considering doing Wikimania and other conference event bids... http://www.usenix.org/events/wowcs08/ -- -george william herbert george.herbert(a)gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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sponsors et al
by Florence Devouard 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Hello, I'll be leaving for Davos next tuesday. I noted all participants coming from Egypt and might try to get to meet them to "sell" them sponsorship for this year Wikimania. I sorted out the complete list for your information. I'd love it if some of you could have a quick look, and based on ... their own knowledge, tell me if that is worth I contact certain people, or no chance/bad idea. Any help to save me time would be great. Errr, some of them are certainly a bit "big" to contact anyway, but they might have assistants coming with them... (and yeah, I will try to say to M. Serageldin) Ant Helmy Abouleish Vice-Chairman and Managing Director SEKEM GROUP Akil Hamed Beshir Chairman and Chief Executive Officer TELECOM Youssuf Boutros-Ghali Minister of Finance MINISTRY OF FINANCE OF EGYPT M. Shafik Gabr Chairman and Managing Director ARTOC GROUP FOR INVESTMENT & DEVELOPMENT Hassan Heikal Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer EFG-HERMES HOLDING Laila Iskandar Chairperson COMMUNITY AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CID) Egypt Tarek Kamel Minister of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OF EGYPT Yasser El Mallawany Chairman and Chief Executive Officer EFG-HERMES HOLDING Amre Moussa Secretary-General LEAGUE OF ARAB STATES Gamal H. Mubarak Assistant Secretary-General and Head, Policy Secretariat NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (NDP) Rachid M. Rachid Minister of Trade and Industry MINISTRY OF FOREIGN TRADE AND INDUSTRY OF EGYPT Naguib O. Sawiris Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ORASCOM TELECOM HOLDING SAE Ismail Serageldin Director BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA

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Fwd: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikipedia Invites Users to Take Part in Open, Collaborative Video Experiment
by Mark (Markie) 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

forwarded from the foundation mailing list, most of this is irrelevant to wikimania apart from one bit. i have copied this up to the top but the whole email is below, if you want to see in context. <snip> I'd also like to see a solution to the issue of developer representation at Wikimania. Commercial interests are generally able to afford to send representation to Wikimania, while many highly relevant open source projects are not. </snip> thanks mark ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> Date: Jan 18, 2008 9:02 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikipedia Invites Users to Take Part in Open, Collaborative Video Experiment To: jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List < commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org On Jan 18, 2008 3:07 PM, Jay A. Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: [snip] > ability to bring multi-media, free knowledge content to our users. We > recognize that Kaltura's software and interface are still not 100% > open-source, and as such the technology will not appear on any > Foundation projects until we've worked through some of the technical > challenges - which is where you come in. Hi Jay, This would appear to be your first post, so welcome to the lists... I understand that you are new here, so you may need the time to collect the background information, but I think that I, and other contributors, need to have a clear explanation as to why the Wikimedia Foundation is calling for volunteer resources for this project when it has failed to call for any resources, or bring any attention at all, to the existing slideshow functionality which our own users have developed. While the JavaScript slideshow software developed by our own users lacks the special effects of Kaltura., it has the advantage of requiring no proprietary software. It also integrates with the existing MediaWiki software in a scalable manner and leverages our revision control technology and user experiences. For most of the Wikimedia projects it can be argued that a simple javascript slideshow is actually a better fit for our needs. I think we also would like to know how the Kaltura product is ever expected to be "100%" free in accordance with our practice of only integrating free tools when it has a fundamental requirement on Adobe Flash, a proprietary format which can not be completely implemented without using patented technologies. I ask this not to be confrontational, but because it is a serious point which I have been asked about which I am unable to answer. One multimedia free software developer said to me about the press release 'it may be slightly more accurate if you replace every instance of "open" with the word "flash" ;)' As a long time contributor to the Wikimedia projects in many capacities, have to say that I found the press release to be misleading and somewhat disingenuous. > Kaltura has released their code to the open-source community to help > this project along. It's available on SourceForge, Unfortunately the released system is far from complete: For example, Mediawiki Integration is achieved by simply embedding material from the Kaltura site. This is very similar to a number of pre-existing youtube extensions. (Such as http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:YouTubeTag). There really isn't much to contribute to such an extension. The player code in svn also contains a number of third part copyrighted components which I am reasonably confident that Kaltura does not have the rights to release under a free license. (I'm sure this is an honest error, but its still worth mentioning) > You're invited to examine the code, test the technology as it exists on > WikiEducator, and help us bring this functionality to the Wikimedia > Foundation projects over the coming months. You'll find a feedback > process on the WikiEducator landing page, and of course we fully welcome > discussion about the technology on the lists. Beyond the Mediawiki extension, which as I said above is little more than a embed shim, they have released some flash code. Unfortunately the flash code can not be built with open tools, so the overwhelming majority of our users couldn't reasonably contribute to that part of the software without undertaking unreasonable costs. > We're excited that an innovative, private business has taken strong > initiative in embracing open-source development. I'm disappointed to see that the Wikimedia foundation has yet again missed an effort to use its viability, both internally to the community and externally, to promote pre-existing community driven software initiatives. A pattern of promoting the "prodigal sons" of the proprietary-cum-kinda-free world over out own contributors and developers is a dangerous I am especially disappointed to see Wikimedia promoting a technology which depends on a proprietary format which can not be reimplemented without patent encumbered technology, especially when a substantial portion of the functionality could be provided with standards driven technology already available in the users browsers. In the future I hope the Foundation will first seek community input on technology partnerships: A flash slideshow editor isn't anything anyone here has been asking for, as far as I can tell... But we have thousands of other widely desired features, many of which could have substantial external components ripe for partnership. By asking the community you could also learn of our preexisting work in various areas. I'd also like to see a solution to the issue of developer representation at Wikimania. Commercial interests are generally able to afford to send representation to Wikimania, while many highly relevant open source projects are not. Thank you for your time. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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Invited speakers idea
by Christophe Henner 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hey everyone, The Program Committee is currently working on a list of famous" personn to invite to come and submit a paper to Wikimania. We'll make the final list this week-end. Please feel free to make some suggestions here http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas . Thanks to everyone, and have a nice week. -- schiste

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