Hello all,
Thanks so much for all of the responses to our call for nominations to
attend the Wikimedia Technical Conference
(WMTC)
!
We have made our decisions, and based on your fabulous inputs, we have
reached out to all prospective attendees. All folks that accepted have been
sent a registration form which will get the
ir
travel arrangements started.
If you’d like to know
more about
how we decided on attendees
,
and the nomination process in general, you can read about it here:
Thanks again to everyone that took the time to write up nominations and
thanks to all that accepted — we’re looking forward to seeing you all and
having many brilliant conversations about platform evolution.
Cheers,
The Wikimedia Technical Conference Team
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deb tankersley
Program Manager, Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 7:32 PM Birgit Müller <birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de>
wrote:
Hey all,
a quick reminder: The deadline for nominations for the Wikimedia Technical
Conference (Portland, USA, October 22-25, 2018) is tomorrow, *Thursday June
14, 2018. *So if you are a volunteer (or staff member) and think you (or
the person you nominate) might be able to provide valuable feedback for the
program, please use this form:
https://goo.gl/forms/MKF682BE1OVI0pe63 to
nominate yourself or someone else.
You can find more information on the nomination process in the FAQ:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018/FAQ
If you haven't heard about the conference at all by now, please see:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018 for
more
information.
Questions are very welcome on the talk page there:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018
Thanks to everyone who already has taken the time to nominate someone -
your support is much appreciated :-)
The Wikimedia Technical Conference Team
2018-06-02 1:36 GMT+02:00 Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Hello!
As per the email below we are now opening up the nomination process for
the
Wikimedia Technical Conference (WMTechConf), to
be held in Portland, OR,
USA on October 22-25, 2018.
*Please fill out the survey using this link to nominate yourself or
someone
else to attend:
*https://goo.gl/forms/MKF682BE1OVI0pe63 This nomination
form will remain open between June 1 and June 14, 2018.
This survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may make it
subject to additional terms. For more information on privacy and
data-handling, see this survey privacy statement: https://
wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_
Conference_Survey_Privacy_
Statement
*If you have any questions, please post them on the event's talk page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018
.
*
Thanks!
The Wikimedia Technical Conference Team
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 3:47 PM, Deborah Tankersley <
dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
*Hello,We recently announced the new Wikimedia
Technical Conference
(TechConf) during the closing session of the Barcelona Hackathon on May
20,
2018. We are sending this email to give an update
on the planning and
organization, and to also let everyone know how the nomination process
will
work for those interested in attending. The
Wikimedia Technical
Conference
> will take place in Portland, OR, USA on October 22-25, 2018. And, as
> mentioned in previous emails [1][2] and on the wiki page [3], this
> conference will be focused on the cross-departmental program called
> Platform Evolution. We will be providing more information and context
as
we
go along in the process.For this conference, we
are looking for diverse
stakeholders, perspectives, and experiences that will help us to make
informed decisions for the future evolution of the platform. We need
people
who can create and architect solutions, as well
as those who actually
make
> decisions on funding and prioritization for the projects.Later this
week,
> we will send out a form to provide more
detailed information on the
> nomination process and how to nominate people (or it can be yourself)
to
attend
this conference, along with the skills, experiences, and/or
backgrounds that we are looking for. Due to the time needed for visa
application and other constraints, the deadline for nominations will be
June 8th. Please make sure that you don’t miss the deadline!If you have
any
> questions, please post them on the talk page [4][1]
>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2018-April/047367.html
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2018-
April/047367.html>
> [2]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-
> April/089738.html
> <
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-April/089738.html
>
> [3]
https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018
> <https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018> [4]
>
> <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018
*
*Cheers from the Program Committee:*
*Kate, Corey, Joaquin, Greg, Birgit and TheDJ*
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deb tankersley
Program Manager, Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
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