Dear all,
Some scholarships (and visa support) will be available for community members hoping to attend Wikimania. Please apply or encourage suitable people you know to apply. Details available here :
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
Early registration for the conference will be open through July 9; so sign up before then if you are planning to attend.
Hacking Days registration is separate (please register for the normal conference first; if only coming to hacking days, you might want to write to wikimania-registration@wikimedia.org and explain).
http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/hacker/register
There will be a sitewide notice about Wikimania this week as well; you can help translate it here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/Wikimania/June_notice
And comment on the implementation of the notice here: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-June/007382.html http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-June/007876.html
Looking forward to August, SJ
PS - As the program is finalized, you will be able to find out more about speakers and presenters from the conference site (which still needs work...) : http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:Index
Feel free to add comments and questions for presenters on those talk pages; and ideas for open discussions at the conference here: http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas