EMWCon Spring 2018

The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2018, or EMWCon Spring 2018, will be held March 21-23 in Houston, TX. EMWCon is a three-day conference featuring discussions of topics related to "Enterprise MediaWiki", i.e. the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies, non-profits, governments, and other organizations. The intended audience of EMWCon Spring 2018 is anyone who uses, or would like to learn more about, MediaWiki within organizations.

This is the third EMWCon. EMWCon began as a spinoff of the Semantic MediaWiki Conference, or SMWCon, which is an annual conference held each fall in Europe. EMWCon and SMWCon are both three-day conferences with similar topics of discussion. EMWCon has a broader scope.

Event details

• Dates: Wed-Fri, March 21-23 2018
• Times:
• Location: The Houston Technology Center (HTC).

Organizers

The organizers of EMWCon Spring 2018 are:

• General Chair: Mark Hershberger
• Local Chair: Frank Taylor
• Registration Chair: Yaron Koren
• Program Chair: Ginger Hershberger
• Create Camp Chair: James Montalvo
• Video Chair: Greg Rundlett
• Chair Emeritus: Cindy Cicalese

Program

Conference Day 1 - Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:30 - 9:10 AM        Doors open - Registration & Breakfast 9:10 - 9:15 AM Welcome and Logistics - Mark Hershberger 9:15 - 10:45 AM Tutorial 1/Create Camp 1 (concurrent sessions) Structuring knowledge according to "Every Page is Page One (EPPO)" - Sabine Melnicki and Lex Sulzer (30 min) Create Camp 1 10:45 - 11 AM Coffee break 11 AM - 12:30 PM Tutorial 2/Create Camp 2 (concurrent sessions) Implementing EPPO on SMW - Lex Sulzer and Sabine Melnicki (2 hour - 8 min) Create Camp 2 12:30 - 2 PM Lunch (onsite) 2 - 3:30 PM Afternoon Session 1 Introductions - Chris Koerner (30 minutes) SimpleGov - Ad Strack van Schijndel (42 min) Achieving a unified data model with Cargo and Page Forms - Yaron Koren (31 min) 3:30 - 4 PM Coffee break 4 - 5:30 PM Afternoon Session 2 Toward a MediaWiki Roadmap - Cindy Cicalese (51 min) State of the MediaWiki community - Chris Koerner (34 min) Lightning talks (30 min) Learning from Airtable - Yaron Koren (3 min) MediaWiki vs. Confluence - Greg Rundlett (13 min) 5:30 PM End of Conference Day 5:30 PM - ? Informal group dinners

Conference Day 2 - Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:30 - 9 AM        Breakfast (onsite) 9 - 10:30 AM Morning Session 1 MediaWiki As A Service - Greg Rundlett (24 min) Enterprise Knowledge Management including SMW - Lex Sulzer (32 min) Enterprise Managed Knowledge Capture - Anthony Mallia (43 min) 10:30 - 11 AM Coffee break 11 AM - 12 PM Morning Session 2 Replacing Extensions - Yaron Koren (36 min) Securing MediaWiki Installations - Brian Wolff (32 min) 12 - 1:30 PM Lunch (onsite) 1:30 - 3 PM Afternoon Session 1 User Pages: The key to Enterprise Wikis - Bryan Hilderbrand (46 min) EMW and The IoT (Security and System Modeling) - Rich Evans and Tony Mallia (50 min) MediaWiki: A Culture of Knowledge-Sharing - Mark Hershberger (20 min) 3 - 3:30 PM Coffee break 3:30 - 5 PM Afternoon Session 2 Enterprise MediaWiki tips and tricks - Ike Hecht (30 min) Lightning talks (30 min) MediaWiki and the European GDPR (datencockpit.at) – Sabine Melnicki (10 min) MediaWiki vs. SharePoint - Tony Mallia (20 min) Wiki Automation - Peter Woudsma (22 min) 5 PM End of Conference Day 8-10 PM Conference dinner Hugo's

Conference Day 3 - Friday, March 23, 2018 8:30 - 9 AM                  Breakfast (onsite) 9 - 11:30 AM Morning Session 1 NASA wikis: Increasing the Awesome - Daren Welsh (53 min) Delivering ICT capability through a wiki policy - Ben Fletcher (39 min) Comprehensive Quality Management with Semantic MediaWiki - Michael Barylak (30 min) 11:30 - 11:35 AM Break 11:35 AM - 12:30 PM Morning Session 2 WMF Strategy Process - Victoria Coleman (56 min) Panel Discussion: MediaWiki Best Practices - Cindy Cicalese, Bryan Hilderbrand, Daren Welsh, Ben Fletcher; moderator: Chris Koerner (56 min) 12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch (onsite) 1:30 - 4 PM Create Camp 3 4:30 - 5 PM Closing Session (Show and Tell) 5 PM End of EMWCon

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Registration

To register for EMWCon, please go to the EMWCon Spring 2018 page at Eventbrite.

The cost for the three-day event is:

• $424.35 - standard rate
• $160.41 - students and freelancers

(If you would be paying your own way, go with the lower rate. If your company or organization is paying, the standard rate applies.)

Sign-up

Also, feel free to add your name to the informal registration signup, below:

• Peter J. Woudsma, NATO
• Lex Sulzer, dataspects
• Wolfgang Fahl, BITPlan/ProfiWiki
• Yaron Koren
• Bryan Hilderbrand
• Mark A. Hershberger
• Cindy Cicalese
• Greg Rundlett
• Daren Welsh
• Costa Mavridis, NASA/SGT
• Evita Hollis
• Tony Mallia, Edmond Scientific
• Ad Strack van Schijndel, Wikibase Solutions
• Ben Fletcher
• Frank Taylor
• Billy Coffield

Local accommodations

Here are some hotels within walking distance of the conference venue:

• Holiday Inn (directions to HTC, 11 minute walk)
• Best Western (directions to HTC, 10 minute walk)
• Hyatt (directions to HTC, 11 minute walk)
• Doubletree (directions to HTC, 14 minute walk)

METRO is the agency for public transportation in Houston, Texas. The services include the bus and the light rail. A handy way to pay the fare of $1.25 for three hours is the Q Card.

Social activities

• TBD