*Dear Wikimedia community,On behalf of this year’s Wikimania programme committee,we are pleased to announce that Wikimania 2018, is now accepting proposals for workshops, discussions, presentations, or research posters to give during the conference. To read the full instructions visit the event wiki and click on the link provided there:https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/SubmissionsWhether you are a community member of one of the Wikimedia projects, or a fellow open content creator or consumer, we welcome your proposal for a session. Please forward this information to others you think might be interested in presenting.Deadline for submissions is 23:59 UTC on Sunday March 18, 2018. This is approximately 6 weeks away.ThemeThis year, the conference will be taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, where the organisers are giving this Wikimania an unique flavor—an explicit theme based in African philosophy: “Bridging knowledge gaps, the ubuntu way forward.”Read more about this theme, why it was chosen, what it means for the conference program, at the Wikimedia blog https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/05/wikimania-cape-town-ubuntu/.Throughout the conference program, this theme will be tightly held, but loosely defined - in order to encourage a diverse range of responses to the theme. It is our hope that this change will give us the opportunity to further our goal of creating the “sum of human knowledge”, by encouraging greater diversity and inclusion in who participates, and what we discuss, at Wikimania.To learn more, and to make a proposal for Wikimania Cape Town 2018, please visit:https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/SubmissionsSincerely, Program committee co-chairs Felix Nartey, Emna Mizouni, and Liam Wyatt.*-- *Felix Nartey* *Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin* *Open Foundation West Africa https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/* *+233242844987 | +447440959477* *Skype:Flixtey*