WikiConference North America/2021
- This event is to be held online, Oct 8-10, 2021. We plan to have local picnics (Wiknics) in several locations too.
- Grants:Conference/WCNA/WikiConference North America 2021 -- Grant approved. Activities are underway
- Planners are meeting each Monday evenings, starting in later April 2021, focusing on different issues, labeled as separate committees for Program, Logistics, and Communications matters. We may have separate committees for Scholarships, Friendly Space, Translation, and other matters, or these committees may be enough.
- Main web site: https://wikiconference.org/
- Communications committee planning is partly here: WikiConference North America/2021/Communications committee
- Agenda - Planning Meeting #1 - 1 February 2021, 10pm Eastern / 7pm Pacific.
- WMF grant:
- timeline, deadline, uses
- Type of conference:
- Virtual focus and experiences learned from WikiConference North America/2020?
- Hybrid (include local events / picnic possibilities)?
- Integration with Wikimania or Wikipedia Day?
- Communication:
- WCNA 2021 Telegram channel
- Meta page, which is currently "under construction": WikiConference North America/2021
- WCNA 2020 Survey results.
- WCNA 2021 Survey?
- Sort out Planning Meeting #2
- Other (if there is time)
- Tech hackathons
- Multilingualism and translations
- Social software
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I volunteer WMDC to be the Fiscal Sponsor. I would support requesting money for some local swag, equipment, picnic food in various locations. I am inclined not to be too afraid but to ask for what we want to try and then they might say no, but so be it. Possible line item: food/beverage associated with the picnic, e.g. Subway sandwich/chips/drink. Funding swag, prizes, equipment? Lightning talks I suggest that the grant writers include all these ideas as separate line items. Grants Department will decide which line items they want to fund and which ones they don’t. Be Bold. Prior themes: 2020/online; 2019/reliability; 2018/possibility; 2017/amplify; 2016/inclusivity E scholarship https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/e-scholarship "The e-scholarship program is a new kind of grant, a living allowance e-scholarship for 1-5 people to stay at their home(s) and work on a project for 2-4 days, relating to the mission of WikiCite. E-scholarship recipients can focus on producing the kinds of projects they might have previously done at an in-person hackathon, unconference, or research trip." https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WCNA/WikiConference_North_America_2021 That’s the start of our grant application Indigenous Peoples day / Columbus Day = Discoverers Day in Hawaii Tentatively: Oct 8-10 2021 I was looking that Oct 10 we have an editathon Can we incorporate the editathon into WCNA? Would you welcome WCNA participants? I dont know, its about Libraries |
- Agenda - Planning Meeting #2 - Saturday 6 February 2021, 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific
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