Announcing the new EXTENDED DEADLINE for Wikimania program submissions: June 9!
All the details are at: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Submissions Please spread this news, and encourage people you know are attending to think about sharing their voice and perspective by presenting a workshop, presentation, poster... -- Liam / Wittylama, volunteer program chair & Eric Luth, WM-Sweden event coordinator On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 02:26, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Wikimaniacs, Wikimedians, and friends of the Wikiverse! > > On behalf of the Wikimania 2019 Stockholm organising team, I am pleased to > announce two things: > > - The list of accepted "Spaces". > > - That the Call for Submissions is now OPEN. > > https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Submissions > > Please join me in congratulating the Leaders of each of the accepted > Wikimania 2019 Spaces! As per the program design[1], Wikimania this year > has the format of "Spaces", each with its own group of "Leaders" - all of > who made a proposal to host a Space back in March. The core team has been > working with the Leaders since then to prepare an interesting, diverse, and > coherent conference. Each Space has its own topic area, and in their own > way they all of them help address the conference theme: "Stronger > together: Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals". > [2] > > Each Space will have its own room for a period of time in the conference > to curate and coordinate as they see fit.[3] You can read about what each > Space is planning to achieve, and who is Leading it, at the link above. In > English-alphabetical order they are: > > - > > Accessibility (A11y): Components and Standards > - > > Global Advocacy for Free Knowledge: Trends, Challenges, and > Opportunities > - > > Community Growth > - > > Diversity > - > > Education > - > > Environmental sustainability > - > > GLAM - cultural partnerships and Wikimedia > - > > Growing Wikimedia’s readership worldwide > - > > Health > - > > Languages > - > > Libraries belong in Wikimedia projects > - > > Multimedia knowledge > - > > Partnerships > - > > Quality > - > > Research > - > > Thriving in Safety > - > > Strategy for Wikimedia 2030 – The path towards our future > - > > Transcription > - > > Technology outreach & innovation > > And of course the Poster session, which will be a plenary event. > > For 2019, there is no 'central' program committee nor a single submission > form. To make a submission, visit the page of the Space which most relates > to your proposal, read its instructions for what kinds of submissions the > Leaders of that Space wish to receive. Then click the submission button. > > Each Space is looking for different kinds of content or format. So it is > important that people wanting to propose a presentation/workshop/panel/etc > at Wikimania read the information that the Leaders of each Space have > provided. > > Once again, the link to the list of all the accepted Spaces, each with its > own submission form, is here: > https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Submissions#Spaces > > Please feel free to share/forward this email. > > Sincerely, > > - Liam Wyatt (Volunteer program chair), and Eric Luth (Conference > Manager, Wikimedia Sverige) > > > [1] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program_design > > [2] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Theme > > [3] Note that the Spaces do NOT all have the same room capacity, or > duration. Thus the content of the Wikimania program is not intending to be > 'evenly spread' across these topic areas. > >
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