Hi,
Congratulation to all the selection committee who break the tradition[1] of selecting one of the Malayalam communities two permanent Wikimania attendees, by selecting both of them.
Congratulation to User:Netha Hussain & User:viswaprabha also.
[1] "Granting Scholarship to same persons every year" thread, https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2017-May/008026.html
~User:Praveenp
On Tuesday 15 May 2018 11:19 PM, Ellie Young wrote:
All,
Here's an update on various activities pertaining to the upcomingWikimania '18 which is being held July 18-22 in Cape Town, South Africa.
WMF Scholarship Program: 135 people were offered and subsequently accepteda full or partial scholarship to attend. The awardees are listed by usernames and the list is posted here:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholarsSubmissions: The program committee has just finished its review anddeliberations. Rejections and acceptance emails have gone out in the past week.
95% of the accepted submissions are listed at:
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program
Plenaries and other sessions will be listed soon and a scheduled program in June.
Registration and accommodation information is now up for everyone at:https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registrationhttps://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registrationhttps://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accommodationhttps://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/AccommodationIf you are a scholarship or other WMF funded attendee (staff, contractor,board, etc), please wait until you hear from the WMF with your registrationand accommodation instructions.If you have any questions about the conference, please emailwikimania-info at wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-lPlease spread the word!!!!On behalf of the Wikimania '18 Organizing Team
Ellie YoungEvents Manager, Wikimedia Foundationhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
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