Hello! As per the email below we are now opening up the nomination process for the Wikimedia Technical Conference (WMTechConf), to be held in Portland, OR, USA on October 22-25, 2018.
*Please fill out the survey using this link to nominate yourself or someone else to attend: *https://goo.gl/forms/MKF682BE1OVI0pe63 This nomination form will remain open between June 1 and June 14, 2018. This survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may make it subject to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see this survey privacy statement: https:// wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_Survey_Privacy_ Statement *If you have any questions, please post them on the event's talk page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018>. * Thanks! The Wikimedia Technical Conference Team On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 3:47 PM, Deborah Tankersley < [email protected]> wrote: > *Hello,We recently announced the new Wikimedia Technical Conference > (TechConf) during the closing session of the Barcelona Hackathon on May 20, > 2018. We are sending this email to give an update on the planning and > organization, and to also let everyone know how the nomination process will > work for those interested in attending. The Wikimedia Technical Conference > will take place in Portland, OR, USA on October 22-25, 2018. And, as > mentioned in previous emails [1][2] and on the wiki page [3], this > conference will be focused on the cross-departmental program called > Platform Evolution. We will be providing more information and context as we > go along in the process.For this conference, we are looking for diverse > stakeholders, perspectives, and experiences that will help us to make > informed decisions for the future evolution of the platform. We need people > who can create and architect solutions, as well as those who actually make > decisions on funding and prioritization for the projects.Later this week, > we will send out a form to provide more detailed information on the > nomination process and how to nominate people (or it can be yourself) to > attend this conference, along with the skills, experiences, and/or > backgrounds that we are looking for. Due to the time needed for visa > application and other constraints, the deadline for nominations will be > June 8th. Please make sure that you don’t miss the deadline!If you have any > questions, please post them on the talk page [4][1] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2018-April/047367.html > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2018-April/047367.html> > [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018- > April/089738.html > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-April/089738.html> > [3] https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018 > <https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018> [4] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018 > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018> > * > > *Cheers from the Program Committee:* > *Kate, Corey, Joaquin, Greg, Birgit and TheDJ* > > -- > > deb tankersley > > Program Manager, Engineering > > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Rachel Farrand Events Program Manager Technical Collaboration Team Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
