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On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 2:28 AM Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Wikimaniacs, Wikimedians, and friends of the Wikiverse!
>
> On behalf of the Wikimania 2019 Stockholm organising team, I am pleased to
> announce two things:
>
> - The list of accepted "Spaces".
>
> - That the Call for Submissions is now OPEN.
>
> https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Submissions
>
> Please join me in congratulating the Leaders of each of the accepted
> Wikimania 2019 Spaces! As per the program design[1], Wikimania this year
> has the format of "Spaces", each with its own group of "Leaders" - all of
> who made a proposal to host a Space back in March. The core team has been
> working with the Leaders since then to prepare an interesting, diverse, and
> coherent conference. Each Space has its own topic area, and in their own
> way they all of them help address the conference theme: "Stronger together:
> Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals".[2]
>
> Each Space will have its own room for a period of time in the conference to
> curate and coordinate as they see fit.[3] You can read about what each
> Space is planning to achieve, and who is Leading it, at the link above. In
> English-alphabetical order they are:
>
>    -
>
>    Accessibility (A11y): Components and Standards
>    -
>
>    Global Advocacy for Free Knowledge: Trends, Challenges, and
> Opportunities
>    -
>
>    Community Growth
>    -
>
>    Diversity
>    -
>
>    Education
>    -
>
>    Environmental sustainability
>    -
>
>    GLAM - cultural partnerships and Wikimedia
>    -
>
>    Growing Wikimedia’s readership worldwide
>    -
>
>    Health
>    -
>
>    Languages
>    -
>
>    Libraries belong in Wikimedia projects
>    -
>
>    Multimedia knowledge
>    -
>
>    Partnerships
>    -
>
>    Quality
>    -
>
>    Research
>    -
>
>    Thriving in Safety
>    -
>
>    Strategy for Wikimedia 2030 – The path towards our future
>    -
>
>    Transcription
>    -
>
>    Technology outreach & innovation
>
> And of course the Poster session, which will be a plenary event.
>
> For 2019, there is no 'central' program committee nor a single submission
> form. To make a submission, visit the page of the Space which most relates
> to your proposal, read its instructions for what kinds of submissions the
> Leaders of that Space wish to receive. Then click the submission button.
>
> Each Space is looking for different kinds of content or format. So it is
> important that people wanting to propose a presentation/workshop/panel/etc
> at Wikimania read the information that the Leaders of each Space have
> provided.
>
> Once again, the link to the list of all the accepted Spaces, each with its
> own submission form, is here:
> https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Submissions#Spaces
>
> Please feel free to share/forward this email.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> - Liam Wyatt (Volunteer program chair), and Eric Luth (Conference Manager,
> Wikimedia Sverige)
>
>
> [1] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program_design
>
> [2] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Theme
>
> [3] Note that the Spaces do NOT all have the same room capacity, or
> duration. Thus the content of the Wikimania program is not intending to be
> 'evenly spread' across these topic areas.
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