Wikimedia Developer Summit/2017/Unconference

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What is an unconference?
An unconference model relies on this theory that when a group of people gather for a shared purpose and hold the freedom to self-organize and govern, leads to meaningful outcomes. Instead of a top-down approach to information delivery by individuals who are known as experts in the room, this model encourages a bottom-up and a participant-driven approach for conducting a discussion.

Developer Summit sessions in unconference style
For the Wikimedia Developer Summit, we will try to incorporate the key elements and spirit of an unconference model into our participant-proposed sessions. One thing that we would do differently than an unconference model is the agenda building. At a typical unconference, agenda remains undetermined until the event starts and is build up on the fly at the venue on a physical whiteboard.The Summit brings together annually members of our broader community (both WMF and non-WMF developers, technical contributors and MediaWiki users). We want to leverage this opportunity to give everyone the autonomy and sufficient time before the event to propose topics they are interested in hosting and bringing to our attention or expressing interest in attending the ones they care about. With this, we hope to address the interests of our community members, draw useful action items from these sessions, and continue discussions on them after the event.

Unconference agenda setup
If you are interested in hosting a session, add your idea to the "Proposed Session Topics ' section below. If you are interested in attending a session, add your name under 'Interested Attendees ' section of a specific session. We’ll allocate rooms to the unconference sessions on the first-come-first-serve basis and based on interest received on them by attendees. We’ll publish the unconference sessions along with the combined Summit schedule on the day of the event. If there still be slots left, you will get a chance to propose sessions on the fly on a physical whiteboard at the event.

Discussion Guidelines
Coming soon!

Contact
For any questions about the unconference, please contact User:SSethi_(WMF)