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
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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
<https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimania&type=revision&diff=14010&oldid=13851>
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 <kerry.raym...@gmail.com
<mailto:kerry.raym...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 26 May, information was added to the conference website
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania
<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/
<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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