Re: [Wikimedia-l] Join the WikidataCon, 28-29 October in Berlin

Dear all, I'm forwarding this email from ​ Léa Lacroix to the list about the WikidataCon. Best, Shani. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Léa Lacroix &lt;lea.lacroix(a)wikimedia.de&gt; Date: 20 June 2017 at 14:34 Subject: Join the WikidataCon, 28-29 October in Berlin To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hello everybody, Here's a general update about the WikidataCon, that will take place in Berlin on October 28th and 29th :) General information The WikidataCon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017 is a conference organized for and by the Wikidata community, and

by Wikimedia Deutschland. If you edit Wikidata, make queries with SPARQL, build scripts, gadgets or external tools, reuse data from Wikidata with your software or your service, if you belong to an organization who wants to use or donate

if you're working on open data, datajournalism, datavizualisation, open knowledge, civictech... *you're welcome to the WikidataCon*! It will take place on October 28th-29th (+ social event on Friday 27th),

the Tagesspiegel venue, in Berlin. Due to our international community,

even will take place in English only. However, language/local meetups can be added to the program. We are expecting 150 persons from all around the world, to celebrate Wikidata's 5th birthday and *share knowledge and experience whithin the community*. Program With two days of talks, workshops, demos, meetups, and social events, the diverse and awesome people that belong to the Wikidata community will be able to share their experiences, their favorite tools, learn from the others, discover new ways to create, enrich, reuse data from the free knowledge base. The program is currently being build via a *call for projects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program>,

until July 31st.* Feel free to support your favorite topics or propose a project. A social event on the Friday evening and a birthday celebration will also take place to bring the community together. Attend *Registration is now open <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Attend/Register , until October 1st. *Registration is mandatory for everyone, including speakers, WMF and WMDE employees, volunteers... Important thing you need to know: the ticket is free of charge, and includes the access to the conference, meals, drinks and goodies, but

not include travel and accommodation*. The attendees have to book these

themselves. If you plan to come, don't wait... Berlin is a touristic area :) Scholarships Some scholarships will be provided to help attendees to fund their travel and accommodation for the conference. *The application is running until July 16th <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Scholarships>.

Due to the few number of scholarships we can provide, we encourage people to ask for support from their local chapter or user group. How can you help? - share this information with people, mailing-lists, wikis, who could be interested - if you are involved in a local chapter: ask your board if they can provide some support for the volunteers of you country who would like to join. - if you want to *volunteer during the event*, you're more than welcome! You can find more information here <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Volunteer>. - if you see any missing information or mistake, or you have any

feel free to contact me. You can follow our updates on the wiki page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017>, the facebook event <https://www.facebook.com/events/1358386070859989/> or the Twitter account <https://twitter.com/wikidata>. Thanks a lot for your attention, I hope I'll meet some of you during the WikidataCon! -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg

der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>