<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-5d13d6c5-6360-ab7b-08c0-fe922203f3da"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Event:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dates:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> January 22 & 23, 2018</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Location:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> San Francisco, California, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Details:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018 (WMDS 18) is an invitation only event hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The format of the WMDS 18 will be discussions and conversations with stated goals and actionable outcomes regarding the future Wikimedia Tech strategy. Participants will submit position statements to the </span><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit#Organizing_team" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">event organizers</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, which will be anonymised and ranked by our </span><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit#Program_Committee" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program Committee</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Invitations will be extended to the top 40 position statements; the 10 remaining invitations will be chosen by the program committee to ensure diversity at the event in terms of technical background, organizations / projects represented, and regional representation. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Wikimedia Foundation has been hosting invitation-only, strategic, technical events yearly beginning in 2012 starting with the Architecture Summit. This event has changed names and grown over time until the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017. As we are experimenting with a new format this year and will collect feedback and make changes for the future based on that feedback.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">   </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Next steps for interested prospective attendees: </span></p><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Review the </span><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018 event page</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Review </span><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit#Thematic_Overview" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thematic Overview</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Spend some time thinking about how you believe Wikimedia Tech should move forward into the future </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit#Position_Papers_.26_Registration" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submit Position Statement</span></a></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><u>Position Statements can be submitted between Friday, September 8th and Friday, September 29th.</u></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are looking forward to reviewing your statements! </span></p><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Victoria Coleman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vcoleman@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">vcoleman@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span id="gmail-m_-3290919904048731080docs-internal-guid-2ed15378-1b8b-8670-4d60-b3514810db68"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(38,50,56);font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:15px"><font face="Arial">Hi everyone<span style="font-weight:700">,</span></font></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(38,50,56);font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:15px"><font face="Arial"><br></font></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(38,50,56);font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:15px"><font face="Arial">I wanted to give you all a heads up about the upcoming Dev Summit. This year the Summit will be held in San Francisco on January 22nd and 23rd, 2018. We are still finalizing the details and will be sending out the call for participation soon. But meantime, we wanted to share a preview of the game plan with you so that you can hold the dates and begin to think about ways of participating. </font></span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This has been a year of strategy making for the Foundation and our communities. As the way forward becomes clearer, we,  the technology community entrusted with delivering the products and infrastructure for supporting the community vision, need to reflect on what the movement strategy means for us and how to best prepare, plan and execute that support. This year, the Developer Summit is dedicated to this reflection. We invite technologists, managers and users to study, reflect and propose ways to support the strategic vision we are committed to. We would like you to capture your thoughts in a short position statement and join the conversation. </span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Specifically, we invite you to think about ways of imagining, creating, planning, building and maintaining the technology foundation needed to enable the key tenets of our strategy:</span></div><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The infrastructure for open:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> We will empower individuals and institutions to participate and share, through open standards, platforms, and datasets. We will host, broker, share, and exchange free knowledge across institutions and communities. We will be a leading advocate and partner for increasing the creation, curation, and dissemination in free and open knowledge.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An encyclopedia, and so much more:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> We will adapt to our changing world to offer knowledge in the most effective ways, across digital formats, devices, and experiences. We will adapt our communities and technology to the needs of the people we serve. As we include other forms of free knowledge, we will aim for these projects to be as successful as Wikipedia.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reliable, relevant information:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> We will continue our commitment to providing useful information that it is reliable, accurate, and relevant to users. We will integrate technologies that support accuracy at scale and enable greater insight into how knowledge is produced and shared. We will embrace the effort of increasing the quality, depth, breadth, and diversity of free knowledge, in all forms.</span></p><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This direction poses key questions for our technical community. Here are some example topics we would welcome ideas and discussion in:</span></div><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How do we maintain and grow the technical community and ready it for the mission ahead?</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What should the role of open source be in the next 15 years of the movement? How does it help or hinder? How do we promote it or adapt it? How do we leverage it?</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What are the foundational building blocks for the language technologies we will need in order to be present everywhere where there are people?</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Scaling. What tools do we need as the movement and the community grow? </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What are the implications of the strategic direction for our infrastructure? Do we have any key gaps in this infrastructure? How ready is our infrastructure for what is to come?</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How should MediaWiki evolve to support the mission? </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What technologies are necessary for embracing mobility?</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We operate in parts of the world where access to free knowledge is blocked, hindered or plain dangerous. What tools do we need to support these at-risk  communities?</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How and with whom should we partner to create the technologies needed to support the mission?</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How can we leverage machine learning and analytics to support the mission and our communities?</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What are emerging trends in technology that will impact our mission in the next 5-10-15 years?</span></div></li></ul><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">These conversations will be invaluable input to the next phase of the strategy process as we shift from exploration to definition to execution. We are energized, excited and hopeful for a great set of thoughtful, impactful conversations.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As we embark on this journey we want to have an open but focused dialog so we are aiming for a smaller participant cohort than previous Dev Summits. We want to encourage everyone to consider these questions and put forward ideas in the form of a short position paper or abstract. We are selecting a Program Committee that consists of respected technologists and best represents the diversity of our communities.  The Program Committee will screen and evaluate the position papers in a blind review process and will select those that best fit the strategic intent of this Summit. The authors will then be invited to participate. We hope to attract  those  within our community who are passionate about the future, hold a point of view and have concrete ideas for how we best use technology to support the objectives of the movement through 2030. We will bring the ideas and learnings from the Summit to the broader technology community during the upcoming hackathons and related events in the tech calendar.</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">So stay tuned for the Call for Participation! Looking forward to seeing you in San Francisco!</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Victoria & the TechCom</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Rachel Farrand<div>Events Program Manager</div><div>Technical Collaboration Team </div><div>Wikimedia Foundation </div></div></div></div></div>
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