I assume this conference will be considered a "Wikimedia technical event" and as such it will fall under the jurisdiction of the Code of Conduct ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct) and its Committee?
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Shani Evenstein <shani.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm forwarding this email from > > Léa Lacroix to the list about the WikidataCon. > > Best, > Shani. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Léa Lacroix <lea.lacr...@wikimedia.de> > Date: 20 June 2017 at 14:34 > Subject: Join the WikidataCon, 28-29 October in Berlin > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Hello everybody, > > Here's a general update about the WikidataCon, that will take place in > Berlin on October 28th and 29th :) > > General information > The WikidataCon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017> > is a conference organized for and by the Wikidata community, and supported > by Wikimedia Deutschland. > If you edit Wikidata, make queries with SPARQL, build scripts, gadgets or > external tools, reuse data from Wikidata with your software or your > service, if you belong to an organization who wants to use or donate data, > if you're working on open data, datajournalism, datavizualisation, open > knowledge, civictech... *you're welcome to the WikidataCon*! > > It will take place on October 28th-29th (+ social event on Friday 27th), in > the Tagesspiegel venue, in Berlin. Due to our international community, the > even will take place in English only. However, language/local meetups can > be added to the program. > > We are expecting 150 persons from all around the world, to celebrate > Wikidata's 5th birthday and *share knowledge and experience whithin the > community*. > > > Program > With two days of talks, workshops, demos, meetups, and social events, the > diverse and awesome people that belong to the Wikidata community will be > able to share their experiences, their favorite tools, learn from the > others, discover new ways to create, enrich, reuse data from the free > knowledge base. > > The program is currently being build via a *call for projects > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program>, running > until July 31st.* Feel free to support your favorite topics or propose a > project. A social event on the Friday evening and a birthday celebration > will also take place to bring the community together. > > > Attend > *Registration is now open > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Attend/Register>, > until October 1st. *Registration is mandatory for everyone, including > speakers, WMF and WMDE employees, volunteers... > > Important thing you need to know: the ticket is free of charge, and > includes the access to the conference, meals, drinks and goodies, but *does > not include travel and accommodation*. The attendees have to book these by > themselves. > If you plan to come, don't wait... Berlin is a touristic area :) > > > Scholarships > Some scholarships will be provided to help attendees to fund their travel > and accommodation for the conference. *The application is running until > July 16th > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Scholarships>. * > > Due to the few number of scholarships we can provide, we encourage people > to ask for support from their local chapter or user group. > > > How can you help? > - share this information with people, mailing-lists, wikis, who could be > interested > - if you are involved in a local chapter: ask your board if they can > provide some support for the volunteers of you country who would like to > join. > - if you want to *volunteer during the event*, you're more than welcome! > You can find more information here > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Volunteer>. > - if you see any missing information or mistake, or you have any question, > feel free to contact me. > > > You can follow our updates on the wiki page > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017>, the facebook > event <https://www.facebook.com/events/1358386070859989/> or the Twitter > account <https://twitter.com/wikidata>. > Thanks a lot for your attention, I hope I'll meet some of you during the > WikidataCon! > > -- > Léa Lacroix > Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 > 10963 Berlin > www.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. 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