Hoi,
Why would it be and how does that make a difference?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 21 June 2017 at 22:38, Rogol Domedonfors <domedonf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. V.
> >
> > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
> unter
> > der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
> > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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