EMWCon Spring 2021

EMWCon Spring 2021 will be an online-only event that will be held on April 20-22, 2021. The event will occur between 9 AM and 5 PM, Eastern Time, on each of those three days. EMWCon is a 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. Attendance will be free.

This event will consist of talks, demos, panels, lightning talks, and most likely a one-day hackathon/"Create Camp" or its equivalent.

Platform
Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic (hopefully on its way out!), this conference will take place virtually again this year. To attend the event, you will need to create a free account on Hopin. Please use the following link to sign-up and attend:
 * https://hopin.com/events/emwcon-spring-2021

The main platform will be Hopin, but the conference Main Stage will be simulcasted on YouTube:
 * Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5BZTyzbx_4
 * Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh6RsLcfiR4

Keynote
We are honored to have as our keynote speaker Håkon Wium Lie, who is best known as the main creator of CSS. He was also the longtime CTO of the company Opera (makers of the Opera browser), and most recently has helped to run the MediaWiki-based website Rettspraksis.no.

Signup
''Please add your name below if you are planning to attend.
 * 1) Bryan Hilderbrand
 * 2) Yaron Koren
 * 3) Ike Hecht (WikiTeq)
 * 4) Patrick Marvin (WikiTeq)
 * 5) Rich Evans
 * 6) Tom O'Neill
 * 7) Bawolff
 * 8)  Julien Tremblay McLellan
 * 9) Duncan Crane
 * 10) Megan Cutrofello
 * 11) Alex Tanchoco
 * 12) Richard Heigl
 * 13) Alexander Gesinn (gesinn.it)
 * 14) Cindy Cicalese
 * 15) Ad Strack van Schijndel
 * 16) Jared Olson
 * 17) Gary Foster
 * 18) Lex Sulzer
 * 19) Wolfgang Fahl
 * 20) Gretchen Wentzell Lowerison
 * 21) Jeroen De Dauw, SMW maintainer (Professional.Wiki)
 * 22) Karsten Hoffmeyer, SMW maintainer (Professional.Wiki)
 * 23) s_pokras (Stan - Wikidelphia.org & OtherNetworks.org)
 * 24) Geertivp (talk)
 * 25) Markus Glaser (MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group, BlueSpice)
 * 26) Eric-Jan van Kakerken (Wikibase Solutions)
 * 27) Charlot Cobben (Charlot @ Wikibase Solutions)
 * 28) Robert Sterbal
 * 29) Ray Frye
 * 30) MyWikis-JeffreyWang
 * 31) Phil Keith
 * 32) Liam Wyatt (Wikimedia Enterprise)
 * 33) Trae Watson
 * 34) Ed Jamer
 * 35) Barry Grenon
 * 36) Nathan James
 * 37) Vincent Brooks
 * 38) Philippos Papadopoulos (Open Risk Manual, Open Risk Data)
 * 39) Jobgh, One or Zero developer (wiki.oneorzero.org)
 * 40) Michael Lowerison
 * 41) Harry Cadby
 * 42) Rich Simon
 * 43) Marijn van Wezel
 * 44) Brian Rom
 * 45) Robert Vogel
 * 46) Jan H. Höffler
 * 47) Charles Smith
 * 48) Joris Dirks (ArchiXL)
 * 49) Dror S
 * 50) Igor Absorto
 * 51) Bernhard Krabina

Lightning Talks
To give a lightning talk at EMWCon, please add its title below.


 * Title - Speaker
 * Naming your extensions - Yaron Koren
 * Idea "MECE Manager" - Lex Sulzer

Create Camp
The Create Camp will be held during the conference. It will comprise small groups working together online on projects of interest to them. These can be programming projects, demonstrating best practices, tutorials, documentation efforts - anything you care to work in small groups related to MediaWiki. Some projects will span the entire Create Camp while others may be scheduled for shorter time periods such as an hour. We will maintain a working schedule here during the Create Camp of the timing. The Create Camp will start with an opening session where the group can discuss projects - although please feel free to add project suggestions below in advance to help planning. The Create Camp will end with a closing session where groups can report out on their projects.

Suggested topics:
 * 1) Improving Cargo's "page values" display
 * 2) WikiPush, WikiSon, pyWikiCMS  applications
 * 3) MediaWiki Manager: Initiatives to facilitate managing MediaWiki deployments
 * 4) * For everyone: discuss
 * 5) *# MWM Use Cases
 * 6) *# MWStakeServices/ExtensionsCatalog (as part of MWStakeServices)
 * 7) *#Attempt to organize MW community's concerns in a MECE way
 * 8) * Developers: discuss aspects on the infrastructure and CLI abstraction level, see GitHub Repo Tag "CreateCampEMWCon2021"
 * 9) Creating packages and installing them - creating various packages (collections of wiki pages) holding data structures, for use with specific use cases, to be installed with Page Exchange or anything else
 * 10) Creating diagrams using Mermaid and Semantic MediaWiki
 * 11) * Request from Gary Foster

Sponsors
The current sponsors of EMWCon are:

To become a sponsor, please contact Ike Hecht.