Utilise the valuable resource of being physically together to greatest advantage.Increase the diversity of the content discussed.
We hope this change to the program format will: By working as a team we can ensure that the program is diverse in its form, content, and facilitators. This team ensures that the overall program is coherent, practical, and that it addresses the theme. Collectively, this group of Space Leaders, the Wikimedia Sverige conference manager ( Eric Luth), and the program chair ( Wittylama), are the program team. Those submissions will be for the individual Space, based on the needs defined by each Space's leaders, not the program committee as a whole. Once the topics and leaders for these Spaces have been selected, a page on the conference wiki will be created where general submissions can be made. The leaders of each Space will be encouraged to engage people interested in the topic to help build their part of the program and facilitate during the event. The eventual program will, therefore, be more proactively curated, rather than a single committee reacting to the submissions as with past Wikimanias. Rather than a call for “presentations” we will first be making a call for proposals to coordinate these Spaces - emphasising their participatory and active nature.Įach Space’s leaders, with the support of the Wikimania core team, will help determine the needs of their own program – the number of sessions, who would lead those sessions, desired topic areas, etc. Each Space will have a duration of one, two or three days, depending on their scope. The content of all of the Spaces will heavily focus on active formats including facilitated/training workshops, discussion-forum sessions, breakout groups - with occasional invited talks from subject area experts. This is partially inspired by other OpenSource community events, such as MozFest. "tracks" or "symposia", each focused on a particular topic area (examples below), with its own dedicated room in the venue, its own leaders, and a small team to help build and promote their specific program. This year’s program will feature a series of parallel Spaces, a.k.a. The outcomes targeted should be those that can be most efficiently achieved at in person events, namely: practical training, learning, idea-sharing and cross-cultural collaboration. Rather than a centrally-controlled program weighted towards individual, retrospective presentations and a passive audience, we believe that this year’s conference theme requires a format that is future-oriented, collaborative, active, and focused on practical problem-solving.
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