[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2006 scholarships available; early registration notes

[Samuel Klein]

Dear all,

Some scholarships (and visa support) will be available for community
members hoping to attend Wikimania.  Please apply or encourage
suitable people you know to apply.  Details available here :

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

Early registration for the conference will be open through July 9; so
sign up before then if you are planning to attend.

http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/

Hacking Days registration is separate (please register for the normal
conference first; if only coming to hacking days, you might want to
write to wikimania-registration at wikimedia.org and explain).

http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/hacker/register

There will be a sitewide notice about Wikimania this week as well; you
can help translate it here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/Wikimania/June_notice

And comment on the implementation of the notice here:
 http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-June/007382.html
 http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-June/007876.html

Looking forward to August,
    SJ


PS - As the program is finalized, you will be able to find out more
about speakers and presenters from the conference site (which still
needs work...) :
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:Index

Feel free to add comments and questions for presenters on those talk
pages; and ideas for open discussions at the conference here:
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas