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 and sign-up
There is no official registration yet. The admission fee is expected to be roughly $400 for attendees from companies and organizations, and $250 for attendees who are freelancers, students or anyone else paying their own way, in line with previous EMWCons. (The admission fee covers breakfast and lunch every day, one conference dinner, and possibly swag like t-shirts.)

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) Tony Mallia
 * 10) David Strine
 * 11) Lex
 * 12) Ike Hecht
 * 13) Barry Grenon
 * 14) Zoranzoki21 (talk)
 * 15)  Erika Bjune

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 (talk) 20:02, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 2) "NATO's Wiki Automation Tool. A demonstration." by Peter Woudsma
 * 3) "Creating Applications with EMW through Ontologies" Tony Mallia
 * 4) "Nifty semantic structures that do stuff" Ike Hecht
 * 5) Using MediaWiki-CodeSniffer so you don't need to care about spaces and other coding style nitpicks Legoktm
 * 6) Finnish institutional wikifarm: what I wish I knew before starting Niklas Laxström
 * 7) Transitioning an existing wiki to incorporate structured data Cindy Cicalese

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.


 * 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