Dear all,
We are looking for members of the 2018 Wikimania program committee.
The committee will help put together the program and schedule for
Wikimania 2018, to be held on July 18-22 in Cape Town, South Africa.
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania
Committee member responsibilities include helping promote the call for
presentations, recruiting speakers, and reviewing program
submissions. Review dates this year will be in the March-April timeframe .
P rogram committee members will need to c ommit to having availability
for reviewing submissions and weekly meetings during this time.
Themes of the conference include the advancement of Free Knowledge,
the role of academic and cultural institutions within the movement, privacy
and rights, and the role of technology to further those objectives. Wikimania 2018 will specifically focus on the gaps - gender, cultural, demographic and knowledge - and strategies for reducing them.
If you are a Wikimedian interested in building a great Wikimania based around the above theme , you are welcome to apply! We are especially looking for committee members with experience with (one or more of) sister projects, non-English speaking communities, technical projects, or GLAM and education projects.
Please let us know if you are interested by contacting
wikimania-program@lists. wikimedia.org with your name, interest, and
availability. We will be forming the committee quickly.
Thank you,
Liam Wyatt, Emna Mizouni, and Felix Nartey
Program Committee Co-Chairs, Wikimania ‘18
Count me in: Wayne Calhoon [[User:Checkingfax]] 925-391-0007 j.blackmale@gmail.com (please notice the dot between the "j" and the "b")
On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Ellie Young eyoung@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear all,
We are looking for members of the 2018 Wikimania program committee.
The committee will help put together the program and schedule for
Wikimania 2018, to be held on July 18-22 in Cape Town, South Africa.
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania
Committee member responsibilities include helping promote the call for
presentations, recruiting speakers, and reviewing program
submissions. Review dates this year will be in the March-April timeframe .
P rogram committee members will need to c ommit to having availability
for reviewing submissions and weekly meetings during this time.
Themes of the conference include the advancement of Free Knowledge,
the role of academic and cultural institutions within the movement, privacy
and rights, and the role of technology to further those objectives. Wikimania 2018 will specifically focus on the gaps - gender, cultural, demographic and knowledge - and strategies for reducing them.
If you are a Wikimedian interested in building a great Wikimania based around the above theme , you are welcome to apply! We are especially looking for committee members with experience with (one or more of) sister projects, non-English speaking communities, technical projects, or GLAM and education projects.
Please let us know if you are interested by contacting
wikimania-program@lists. wikimedia.org with your name, interest, and
availability. We will be forming the committee quickly.
Thank you,
Liam Wyatt, Emna Mizouni, and Felix Nartey
Program Committee Co-Chairs, Wikimania ‘18
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Hello Ellie,
You can count me in as well. I would like to help make this a great Wikimania, I am looking forward to work with the African community.
I was planning on submitting a few proposals for the program as well, I hope that this will not be a problem. The colleagues I am planning to do these presentations with are from Senegal and other West African countries, and once again I would like to avoid any suspicions of conflict of interest or "it is always the same people who get the scholarships"...
Having said that, I would love to help out :)
Gabe
wikimania-program@lists.wikimedia.org
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 2:05 PM, J. j.blackmale@gmail.com wrote:
Count me in: Wayne Calhoon [[User:Checkingfax]] 925-391-0007 j.blackmale@gmail.com (please notice the dot between the "j" and the "b")
On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Ellie Young eyoung@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear all,
We are looking for members of the 2018 Wikimania program committee. The committee will help put together the program and schedule for Wikimania 2018, to be held on July 18-22 in Cape Town, South Africa. https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania
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I am interested, I'll have free time right after February so why not? I speak 4 or 5 languages fluently, that should help too. Plus, i wanted to there but not to present any material, so this is a great opportunity to take active part to the event in any case.
User Alexmar983
Il Lunedì 20 Novembre 2017 14:26, Gabriel Thullen gabriel@thullen.com ha scritto:
Hello Ellie,
You can count me in as well. I would like to help make this a great Wikimania, I am looking forward to work with the African community.
I was planning on submitting a few proposals for the program as well, I hope that this will not be a problem. The colleagues I am planning to do these presentations with are from Senegal and other West African countries, and once again I would like to avoid any suspicions of conflict of interest or "it is always the same people who get the scholarships"...
Having said that, I would love to help out :)
Gabe
wikimania-program@lists.wikimedia.org
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 2:05 PM, J. j.blackmale@gmail.com wrote:
Count me in: Wayne Calhoon [[User:Checkingfax]] 925-391-0007 j.blackmale@gmail.com (please notice the dot between the "j" and the "b")
On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Ellie Young eyoung@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear all,
We are looking for members of the 2018 Wikimania program committee. The committee will help put together the program and schedule for Wikimania 2018, to be held on July 18-22 in Cape Town, South Africa. https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania
...
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