Re: [Wikimania-l] Lack of clarity around the arrangements for "Decolonizing the Internet conference"

[Florence Devouard]

Hi Kerry

I happen to be planned to attend this pre-conference event. What I can 
say is that it will take place at the Sun Square Cape Town City Bowl Hotel*.
*I am not entirely sure, but I think it is on invitation only. You 
probably want to check with Anasuya (anasuya *** whoseknowledge.org) and 
indeed, it would be a good idea to clarify things on the wikimania website.



Florence
**

Le 08/06/2018 à 02:11, Lodewijk a écrit :

Hi Kerry,

From the announcement on whoseknowledge, it seems that the co-location 
is just that: being in the same city, without being organized by the 
same people. The edit 
 
that added the conference as pre-conference has a summary that 
suggests to me that it is not endorsed/organized by the Wikimania 
organizing team (and I would based on that not expect them to offer 
registration for it), but that is something the local organizers can 
perhaps clarify.


Best,
Lodewijk

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Kerry Raymond > wrote:


On 26 May, information was added to the conference website

https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania


about a pre-event (18-19 July) called “Decolonizing the Internet
conference”. The link provided

https://whoseknowledge.org/decolonizing-the-internet-conference/


talks about being co-located with Wikimania, but provides no
clarity to what this means, saying nothing about a specific venue
other than being “in Cape Town”. Nor does this link provide any
information about how to register, the costs, times of day, what
the program is and whether there is any way you can submit a
request for a presentation at the conference. But being on the
Wikimania home page as part of the pre-conference program, I
figured that I needed to go to the Wikimania’s Eventbrite page at
least to register and pay, but when I went there to register for
the event, but found there was no mention of it at all. My first
thought is that the Eventbrite site had not been updated yet to
reflect this pre-event, so I have been checking back every day or
so, but still no sign of it. In the meantime, we have now passed
the deadline for Early Bird Registration (4 June) for these
pre-conference events, so if it is to be booked via Wikimania’s
Eventbrite arrangements, the cost to attend just increased by an
extra USD 50 through failure to update the Eventbrite page in a
timely way. And I presume many of us have booked flights and hotel
arrangements at our own expense and may have difficulty (or
increased costs) involved in changing these to accommodate
pre-conference events announced in such a last minute way with so
little detail.

Can anyone clarify if this “Decolonizing the Internet conference”
is actually being held as part of the Wikimania pre-conference at
the same hotel as Wikimania? How do we register for it? Can we
propose a talk etc? And if it is a part of the official Wikimania
pre-conference, can we still register at the cheaper Early Bird
rate once it is added to the Eventbrite site?

Thanks

Kerry


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Re: [Wikimania-l] Lack of clarity around the arrangements for "Decolonizing the Internet conference"

[Lodewijk]

Hi Kerry,

>From the announcement on whoseknowledge, it seems that the co-location is
just that: being in the same city, without being organized by the same
people. The edit

that added the conference as pre-conference has a summary that suggests to
me that it is not endorsed/organized by the Wikimania organizing team (and
I would based on that not expect them to offer registration for it), but
that is something the local organizers can perhaps clarify.

Best,
Lodewijk

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Kerry Raymond 
wrote:

>
>
> On 26 May, information was added to the conference website
>
>
>
> https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania
>
>
>
> about a pre-event (18-19 July) called “Decolonizing the Internet
> conference”. The link provided
>
>
>
> https://whoseknowledge.org/decolonizing-the-internet-conference/
>
>
>
> talks about being co-located with Wikimania, but provides no clarity to
> what this means, saying nothing about a specific venue other than being “in
> Cape Town”. Nor does this link provide any information about how to
> register, the costs, times of day, what the program is and whether there is
> any way you can submit a request for a presentation at the conference. But
> being on the Wikimania home page as part of the pre-conference program, I
> figured that I needed to go to the Wikimania’s Eventbrite page at least to
> register and pay, but when I went there to register for the event, but
> found there was no mention of it at all. My first thought is that the
> Eventbrite site had not been updated yet to reflect this pre-event, so I
> have been checking back every day or so, but still no sign of it. In the
> meantime, we have now passed the deadline for Early Bird Registration (4
> June) for these pre-conference events, so if it is to be booked via
> Wikimania’s Eventbrite arrangements, the cost to attend just increased by
> an extra USD 50 through failure to update the Eventbrite page in a timely
> way. And I presume many of us have booked flights and hotel arrangements at
> our own expense and may have difficulty (or increased costs) involved in
> changing these to accommodate pre-conference events announced in such a
> last minute way with so little detail.
>
>
>
> Can anyone clarify if this “Decolonizing the Internet conference” is
> actually being held as part of the Wikimania pre-conference at the same
> hotel as Wikimania? How do we register for it? Can we propose a talk etc?
> And if it is a part of the official Wikimania pre-conference, can we still
> register at the cheaper Early Bird rate once it is added to the Eventbrite
> site?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Kerry
>
>
>
>
>
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[Wikimania-l] Lack of clarity around the arrangements for "Decolonizing the Internet conference"

[Kerry Raymond]

 

On 26 May, information was added to the conference website 

 

https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania

 

about a pre-event (18-19 July) called "Decolonizing the Internet
conference". The link provided 

 

https://whoseknowledge.org/decolonizing-the-internet-conference/

 

talks about being co-located with Wikimania, but provides no clarity to what
this means, saying nothing about a specific venue other than being "in Cape
Town". Nor does this link provide any information about how to register, the
costs, times of day, what the program is and whether there is any way you
can submit a request for a presentation at the conference. But being on the
Wikimania home page as part of the pre-conference program, I figured that I
needed to go to the Wikimania's Eventbrite page at least to register and
pay, but when I went there to register for the event, but found there was no
mention of it at all. My first thought is that the Eventbrite site had not
been updated yet to reflect this pre-event, so I have been checking back
every day or so, but still no sign of it. In the meantime, we have now
passed the deadline for Early Bird Registration (4 June) for these
pre-conference events, so if it is to be booked via Wikimania's Eventbrite
arrangements, the cost to attend just increased by an extra USD 50 through
failure to update the Eventbrite page in a timely way. And I presume many of
us have booked flights and hotel arrangements at our own expense and may
have difficulty (or increased costs) involved in changing these to
accommodate pre-conference events announced in such a last minute way with
so little detail.

 

Can anyone clarify if this "Decolonizing the Internet conference" is
actually being held as part of the Wikimania pre-conference at the same
hotel as Wikimania? How do we register for it? Can we propose a talk etc?
And if it is a part of the official Wikimania pre-conference, can we still
register at the cheaper Early Bird rate once it is added to the Eventbrite
site?

 

Thanks

 

Kerry

 

 

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