Dear semantic wiki users and developers,

We are very happy to announce that early bird registration to the 8th Semantic MediaWiki Conference is now open [2]!

Important facts reminder: ------------------------------ * Dates: October 28th to October 30th 2013 (Monday to Wednesday) * Location: A&O Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Lehrter Str. 12, 10557 Berlin, Germany * Conference wiki page: https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2013 * Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in Semantic MediaWiki, e.g. users, developers, consultants, business representatives and researchers.

We welcome new contributions from you: ------------------------------ * We encourage contributions about applications and development of semantic wikis; for a list of topics, see [1] * Please propose regular talks, posters or super-short lightning talks on the conference website. We will provide feedback to you and do our best to consider your proposal in the conference program * Tutorials and presentations will be video and audio recorded and made available for others after the conference. * If you've already announced your talk it's now time to expand its description

News on participation, tutorials and keynote: ------------------------------ * You can now officially register for the conference [2] and benefit from early bird fees until September 14, 2013 * The tutorial program has been announced and available [3]. This year we have two tutorial tracks: ** The beginner's tutorials are focused on business applications of semantic wikis ** The developer's tutorials will help you to become Semantic MediaWiki programmer: contributing to core and and writing extensions for your specific needs * Professor Yolanda Gil from the University of Southern California [4] will give a keynote on scientific data curation

Organizers and sponsors ------------------------------ * Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. [5] has become the official organiser of SMWCon Fall 2013 * Thanks to our sponsors WikiVote [6] (platinum) and ArchiXL [7] (gold) fees for this SMWCon remain low

If you have questions you can contact Yury Katkov (Program Chair), Benedikt Kämpgen (General Chair) or Karsten Hoffmeyer (Local Chair) per e-mail (Cc).

We will be happy to see you in Berlin!

Yury Katkov, Program Chair

[1] <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon Fall 2013/Announcement> [2] http://de.amiando.com/PVADAOV.html [3] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2013#Program [4] http://www.isi.edu/~gil/ [5] https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Hauptseite [6] http://wikivote.ru/ [7] http://www.archixl.nl/