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.

http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/

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