Hello WALRUS,
Registration for WikiConference North America 2018 in Columbus, Ohio, is open to the public: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wcna-2018-registration/
Thursday, Oct 18 will be our "tech day", with a hackathon, tech demos, and more. We'll also have some non-tech activities available. Friday, Oct 19 will be our Culture Crawl, featuring tours of various cultural institutions in downtown Columbus, along with collaborative events such as edit-a-thons. Sat-Sunday, Oct 20-21, will be our main conference, featuring sessions from community members.
Some more useful links for those planning to attend: Main website: https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Main_Page Schedule (in progress): https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Schedule Travel guide: https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Travel Facebook group for attendees: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1721132731332084/
Thanks, Kevin Payravi SuperHamster on-wiki