[Neasis-l] Wikimania Registration: Early Deadline Ends July 9
Jessica Baumgart
jessica_baumgart at harvard.edu
Thu Jun 29 17:40:24 EDT 2006
Hello,
To take advantage of the current registration rates for Wikimania,
the second International Wikimedia Foundation conference happening
Friday, August 4, through Sunday, August 6, at Harvard Law School,
register soon! Conference organizers say the rates will increase
after Sunday, July 9.
Current admission rates are $90 per day and $240 for all three days
or for active contributors to any Wikimedia Foundation project, $30
per day or $70 for the entire conference. Conference volunteers may
qualify for a discount.
While the conference offers many sessions and activities of interest
to librarians, archivists, researchers, and other information
professionals, planners intentionally scheduled many activities
directly related to these professions on Saturday to make life easier
for those of you who may only be able to attend the conference on one
day. These activities include a Wikis in Libraries panel with
Meredith Farkas, whom some of you might know from the weblog
Information Wants to be Free and Library Success: A Best Practices
Wiki; a talk by Internet Archivist Brewster Kahle; a publishers
panel; sessions about wikis in education and the Semantic Web; and a
birds of a feather open discussion.
For those of you interested in the technical side of wikis and their
development, from Tuesday, August 1, through Thursday, August 3, the
MIT Media Lab is hosting Hacking Days, a gathering of MediaWiki
developers.
More conference information is available on the Web site at:
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/.
Registration is at: http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/.
Information about volunteering is at:
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteering.
The conference schedule is at:
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule.
Information about Hacking Days is available at:
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Days.
Cordially,
Jessica Baumgart
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