*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/Submissions>Whether 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/Submissions>Sincerely, Program
committee co-chairs Emna Mizouni, Felix Nartey, and Liam Wyatt.*
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Emna Mizouni
Carthagina President
GLAM coordinator and Spokesperson - Wikimedia TN User Group
Member - Affiliations Committee - Wikimedia Movement
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