EMWCon Spring 2019

The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2019, or EMWCon Spring 2019, will be held on April 3-5, 2019 in Daly City, California (near San Francisco). EMWCon is a three-day conference featuring discussions of topics related to "Enterprise MediaWiki", i.e. the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies, non-profits, governments, and other organizations. The intended audience of EMWCon Spring 2019 is anyone who uses, or would like to learn more about, MediaWiki within organizations.

Registration
To register for EMWCon, please go to the EMWCon Spring 2019 page at Eventbrite.

The cost for the three-day event is:


 * $400 - corporate rate
 * $100 - students and freelancers

(If you would be paying your own way, go with the lower rate. If your company or organization is paying, the corporate rate applies.)

Unofficial sign-up
To indicate that you are interested in attending, please add your name below:
 * 1) Yaron Koren
 * 2) Nikerabbit (talk) 12:24, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 3) Legoktm (talk) 20:23, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 4) Peter Woudsma
 * 5)  Harjot Singh
 * 6) Tgr (talk) 09:27, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 7) Bryan Hilderbrand
 * 8) Cindy Cicalese (talk) 13:45, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 9) David Strine
 * 10) Lex
 * 11) Ike Hecht
 * 12) Barry Grenon
 * 13) Zoranzoki21 (talk)
 * 14)  Erika Bjune
 * 15) James Montalvo
 * 16) Vincent Brooks
 * 17) Costa Mavridis

Talks
If you want to give a presentation or lighting talk, please see the Call for Presentations and add the title below:
 * 1) "Page Forms: state of the extension" - Yaron Koren
 * 2) "NATO's Wiki Automation Tool. A demonstration."- Peter Woudsma
 * 3) "Nifty semantic structures that do stuff" - Ike Hecht
 * 4) "Using MediaWiki-CodeSniffer so you don't need to care about spaces and other coding style nitpicks" - Legoktm
 * 5) "Finnish institutional wikifarm: what I wish I knew before starting" - Niklas Laxström
 * 6) "Transitioning an existing wiki to incorporate structured data" - Cindy Cicalese
 * 7) "Meza why and how" - James Montalvo
 * 8) "Creating the International Space Station Wiki by merging topic wikis" - (Vincent or Erik)
 * 9) "The MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group (#mwstake), what it is and why you should join" - Bryan Hilderbrand
 * 10) "How to use MediaWiki's newish support for Content-Security-Policy (CSP) to secure your wiki" - Brian Wolff

Accommodations
If you would like to stay at a hotel in the area, here are some suggested options that are not too far from the conference site:


 * Hampton Inn San Francisco-Daly City
 * 2700 Junipero Serra Boulevard, Daly City
 * 0.7 miles away - 16 minute walk, 2 minutes by car, 10 minutes by BART
 * ~ $300/night


 * El Camino Inn
 * 7525 Mission St, Daly City
 * 1.3 miles away - 28 minute walk, 5 minutes by car, 20 minutes by BART
 * ~ $160/night
 * Note: this hotel is relatively cheap, and relatively close, but please check the reviews before reserving here - people have had mixed experiences.


 * Union Square Plaza Hotel
 * 432 Geary St., San Francisco
 * 8 miles away - 30 minutes by car, 35 minutes by BART
 * ~ $150/night


 * The Dylan Hotel at SFO
 * 110 S El Camino Real, Millbrae
 * 9 miles away - 15 minutes by car, 35 minutes by BART
 * ~ $210/night


 * Fairfield Inn & Suites at SFO
 * 250 El Camino Real, Millbrae
 * 9 miles away - 15 minutes by car, 35 minutes by BART
 * ~ $275/night

If you wish to share a hotel room with other attendees, or to stay with a local attendee, in order to save on costs, please add your name below.
 * Your name here

Tuesday evening meetup
On the evening of Tuesday, April 2, the evening before the conference, there will be a meetup of Write the Docs South Bay, to be held at Genesys HQ, in the same venue as the main conference. The topic will be the use of MediaWiki for documentation at Genesys; all EMWCon attendees are invited to attend this meetup.

Social activities
There are planned to be be social activities (with food and drinks) on both main evenings of the conference. Tentatively, they are planned to be:
 * Wednesday evening, April 3: bowling and billiards
 * Thursday evening, April 4: a reception at the Wikimedia Foundation office in downtown San Francisco