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From: Tzu-Chiang Liou <tcliou@iis.sinica.edu.tw> Date: March 30, 2007 2:29:17 AM EDT To: discuss@opensource.mit.edu Subject: [F/OSS-Discuss] "Wikimania 2007" Open for Registration & CFP Reply-To: Dicusssion list for Free/Open Source Software researchers <discuss@opensource.mit.edu>

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Dear all,

Wikimania 2007, the third annual international Wikimedia conference will be held August 3-5 in Taipei, Taiwan at Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center.

Both a scientific conference and a community event, Wikimania brings together members of various Wikimedia projects in order to exchange ideas, build relationships, and report on research and project efforts.

It also provides an opportunity for Wikimedians and the general public alike to meet and share ideas about free and open source software, free knowledge initiatives, and wiki projects worldwide.

Wikimania will be an interdisciplinary forum, where the enthusiastic community behind the Wikimedia projects and interested researchers and practitioners can meet to share ideas. Conference themes this year include Content and usage of the Wikimedia projects, Communities (social studies into / policies and practices), Technical infrastructure and MediaWiki, Policy including law and Access to Knowledge.

We expect an international audience of hundreds of people, and extensive media coverage. Last year's conference was held in Boston, Unite State, with more than 350 participants from 50 countries.

You may fine more information on homepage of the conference:

http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

We also have early bird discount, please register asap to gain more benefit!

http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration

If you're interested in submit/present a short paper in the conference, please also check the website:

http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation

Please also help circulate this information if you think it's appropriate, thanks.

Sincerely,

TzuChiang Liou, Wikimania 2007 preparation team

-- TzuChiang Liou, Program Committee Member of Wikimania 2007 Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan E-mail: tcliou@iis.sinica.edu.tw MSN: tcliou@msn.com GTalk: tcliou@gmail.com TEL:+886-2-2788-3799 ext.1404 FAX:+886-2-2651-8660 Mobile: +886-937835052 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@opensource.mit.edu http://opensource.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/discuss

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