There will at least be two relevant events for Wikinewsies at or around Wikimania:

* An open discussion about Wikinews and wikis in journalism on Saturday, 4:00-5:30 PM: http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikis_and_the_news * A whole mini-conference about citizen journalism on Monday: http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Journalism

If you plan to attend, please add yourself to the list (registration is mandatory for the citizen journalism conference). If you can't attend, please edit

http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikis_and_the_news

and add topics that you think the Wikinewsies who will be present should discuss. If possible, we will also try to assign one or multiple people for reporting the discussion to #wikinews on irc.freenode.net, and to take questions and comments from the channel.

I hope to see you there,

Erik