Wikimania 2006/Program
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Other languages: English | Esperanto | 中文 +/- If last year is any indication, Wikimania will involve a week of community gatherings, discussions and hacking; with a few days of packed presentations and large crowds. There will be trips into the city and surrounding countryside. Wikimania will take place in July or August of 2006. There will be trips, planned and unplanned, into the city and surrounding countryside. Information about orienting oneself on campus and having a good time in Boston is gathered here. ScheduleOne possible schedule is what we did last year : extra days Mon-Wed for hacking, then a four-track conference Fri-Sun, then final gatherings and outings on the next Mon. Another possibility suggested, to move the extra days after the rest of the event: a main conference Fri-Sun, then days for hacking, &c Mon-Wed (meanwhile other attendees could see the area or the city, and stay for another night). Other ideas included a day for the community to meet before the greater chaos of the conference, regardless of when the extra days are; and planning community events as well as hacking for those extra days. ProgramNote that everything below has been SUGGESTED or PROPOSED by a member of the community or other interested parties. Nothing is fixed yet. This page is simply a collection of what’s been suggested so far in various places (irc, wiki, etc). Please feel free to make your own suggestions or discuss the ones already here. "From" notes after suggestions simply note where the suggestions were made. (NB: I've looked everywhere I could think of to collect program suggestions, but if I missed yours, please add it here. Brassratgirl 01:36, 22 November 2005 (UTC)) Program organization
Program meetingsThere are general, public program meetings at least once a month. There may be smaller meetings for each core theme as the year goes by. For a list of past and future meetings, see Wikimania 2006/Planning#Meetings SpeakersFor a list of suggested speakers and panels, see Wikimania 2006/Program ideas. Main conference tracksSee the Wikimania 2006 Call for Participation and its Talk page for the themes/tracks suggested in the CfP. If there are other important conceptual themes to address, suggest them and we can discuss whether there is a reasonable way to integrate them into the program -- or to suggest them as themes for future years. Whom should we invite for each theme? See Wikimania 2006/Program ideas for more. Ditto for choosing or selecting among Birds of a Feather (BOF) topics. (NB: When to leave time for these? What spaces will be available for them?)
TutorialsTutorials are also proposed (perhaps as a separate track?) For specific suggestions, see the list of program ideas. Hacking daysThis brainstorm from Berlin seems to have worked out pretty well... do we want to do this again? Do we want any speakers for separate hacking days? Experts to give advice on how they manage ever-larger communities, software-networks, server farms, or database clusters? Community members presenting specific work, like last year? Example venues
Satellite eventsWe won't be able to provide a plenary session for all the people in attendance who might deserve one. At least one potential speaker last year was unable to get vacation time to attend unless he was giving a plenary speech. But we will have an excellent audience for them in the rest of Cambridge. Fairly large satellite events could be held in many places and on many campuses around the city. Example venues
Suggest other satellite events or locations here. There is also a fair amount of interest in other complimentary conferences that are going on in the area around the same time. Other links
EventsWe had a couple parties and some excellent tours last summer. Parties need planning and loving attention; tours need hosts, leaders and planning. There are many great [hb]iking paths, museums, libraries, and waterfronts near Boston. Suggest ones you would like to visit, or would like others to visit, photograph, and tell you about. Potential party locations:
It is noted that "on campus you can have better parties later than you can elsewhere in town." Nov.15 IRC Suggested parties/events/themes
Some possible trips:
ContestsWe had a small writing and media contest at the first Wikimania, and a trivia contest that was great fun. There are any number of other contests that could be great fun; direct wiki connection is an advantage but certainly not a necessity. Or what about a talent show?
RecordingTechnical and volunteer requirements for recording -- live audio and video broadcasts, daily (or twice-daily) posts of podcasts and text transcripts -- should be worked out. Simulediting on a wiki is a great way to take text transcripts in realtime. FreeMatrix was good to us last year; perhaps we can work together again, with more publicity.
TranscriptsThe fastest way to access a session's content. Fun to do, for some people. Needs 2-3 people per room on the transcript wiki/channel, or more laborious work after the fact. OtherAnything else you can dream of to schedule during Wikimania, note it here.
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