[Air-l] Wikimania 2007: Call for participation

[phoebe ayers]

Please circulate this call widely among wiki communities, researchers and
other people that may be interested! This call is also online at
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation


== Wikimania 2007: Call for Participation ==

=== About Wikimania ===

Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikipedia and the other
Wikimedia Foundation projects. It is a community event, which is also
open to the public and to scientists. Wikimania is a place for editors
and users of the Wikimedia projects around the globe (Wikipedia,
Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wiktionary, and Wikiversity) to gather,
to meet each other, to exchange ideas, and to report on research and
projects. This year's conference will be held from August 3-5, 2007 in
Taipei, Taiwan at Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center. More
information:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

We are accepting submissions for posters, presentations, workshops, and
discussion groups. We are also accepting nominations for speakers and
speaker panels, and suggestions for other activities. Please note the
details below and be bold in your submissions!

=== Important dates ===

 * 1 March – 30 April: Submission
 * 1 May – 31 May: Feedback and notification of acceptance
 * 3 – 5 Aug 2007 : Wikimania

=== Conference Themes ===

Submissions should address one or more of the following themes:

 * Wikimedia Communities – Interesting projects and particularities
within the communities (we explicitly invite you to present your local
Wikimedia project's community!); policy creation within individual
projects; conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and
identity; multilingualism, languages and cultures; social studies.

 * Free Content – Open access to information; ways to gather and
distribute free knowledge, usage of the Wikimedia projects in education,
journalism, research; ways to improve content quality and usability;
copyright laws and other legal areas that interfere with Wikimedia projects.


 * Technical infrastructure – Issues related to Mediawiki development
and extensions; Wikimedia hardware layout; new ideas for development
(including usable case studies from other wikis or similar projects).

Your topic must be related to Wikimedia projects and its communities or
to the creation of free content in general. If your topic does not cover
free content creation and communities but wikis or communities in other
applications then the WikiSym 2007 conference
<http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/> (October 21-23, 2007, Montreal) or a
Recent Changes camp might better suit.

=== Types of Submissions ===

We are seeking submissions for

 * presentations (10–30 minute talks with optional short or full papers)
 * posters (printed presentations or visual displays that can stand on
their own)
 * workshops (30–120 minute session with more involvement of the audience)
 * panels (group of 2-5 speakers to discuss on a specific subject)
 * Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) (45-60 minutes informal meetup of group
discussion on a particular topic)
 * artistic artifacts (plays, competitions, comedy, visualizations, or
other representations of some aspect of the projects)

Furthermore you may leave ideas, comment, and suggestions at the public
wiki page <http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Ideas>.

=== Guidelines ===
Please visit
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation
for submission guidelines and a link to the submission software. Questions
may be directed to cfp at wikimedia.org.