EMWCon Spring 2020

The Enterprise Mediawiki Conference Spring 2020, or EMWCon Spring 2020, will be held on April 1-3, 2020 in Sandusky, Ohio (50 miles west of Cleveland). 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 2020 is anyone who uses, or would like to learn to more about, MediaWiki within organizations.

This year the conference will be preceded by an optional, informal two day hackathon on March 30 and 31.

Event details

 * Announcement: HERE
 * Date/time: 9 AM - 5 PM, April 1-3, 2020 (plus a hackathon on March 30-31)
 * Location: Kalahari Resorts Sandusky, 7000 Kalahari Dr, Sandusky, OH 44870 (see Google map)
 * Venue Map: https://www.kalaharimeetings.com/media/4347/oh-floorplan-capacity-chart.pdf
 * Chat URL: https://riot.im/app/#/room/#emwcon:matrix.org
 * Social media: Please use the hashtag #EMWCon
 * YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVG_tuf3Q2fji-CwqEDRJpZuf23wevrq
 * Etherpad for MWStake meeting: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/EMWCon2020MWStake

Registration
To register for EMWCon, please go to the EMWCon Spring 2020 page at Eventbrite.

The cost for the three-day event is:


 * $450 - corporate rate
 * $150 - 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.)

Talks
If you would like to give one or more talks, please put the talk title and your name below.


 * "Data Everywhere: Opportunities and Challenges for Enterprise MediaWiki" - Yaron Koren
 * "Maintaining your wiki: You know you have to" - Ike Hecht
 * Potential topics by Daren Welsh (I might be motivated by votes)
 * "Measuring Knowledge Management Success"
 * "Algorithms in Wikis"
 * "Structured Spaceflight Analog Testing in Wikis"
 * "Upcoming changes to MediaWiki" - Cindy Cicalese

Lightning talks
To give a short (5 minutes or so) lightning talk, plus put the title and your name below.
 * Mediawiker SublimeText plugin - why this is the best thing ever & how to set up - Megan

Keynote
tbd

Create Camp
more soon

Technical Tour
We are planning to a provide a tour of NASA's Plum Brook Station:
 * details tbd

Social activities
We are planning a few social activities:
 * Dinner (tbd)

Unofficial conference sign-up
To indicate that you are interested in attending, please add your name below. (And if you do plan to attend, it is a good idea to "watch" this page, for further updates.)
 * 1) Richard Evans
 * 2) Yaron Koren
 * 3) Cindy Cicalese
 * 4) Ike Hecht
 * 5) Peter Meyer
 * 6) Megan Cutrofello
 * 7) Bryan Hilderbrand
 * 8) Greg Rundlett
 * 9) Bawolff (talk) 22:53, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * 10) Stanley Gould
 * 11) Billy Coffield
 * 12) Sam Wilson
 * 13) Vincent Brooks
 * 14) David Every
 * 15) Lex Sulzer
 * 16) Daren Welsh
 * 17) Lucas Billett
 * 18)  Tom Harriman
 * 19) Joris Darlington Quarshie
 * 20) Mark A. Hershberger

Pre-conference hackathon
For the first time, due to popular demand, the conference will be preceded by an optional, informal two-day hackathon. The hackathon will occur March 30 and 31. There is no cost to attend the hackathon if you are registered to attend the conference. There will be a conference room at the hotel for people to meet. Suggest topics below that you would like to explore with other attendees. Or just take the time to work side-by-side with other MediaWiki enthusiasts in a collaborative setting. The hackathon is not limited to the "traditional" definition of a hackathon. So if you're new to the community and want to form a group to talk about how to get started, please add it to the list. Please sign up below so we know how many people we can expect to attend.


 * 1) Cindy Cicalese
 * 2) Daren Welsh
 * 3) Bryan Hilderbrand
 * 4) Lex Sulzer

Suggested topics:
 * Getting started with Lua
 * Converting SMW structured data to Cargo & expanding on the Cargo vs. SMW comparison and Manual:Managing data in MediaWiki pages
 * Maybe also tinker with Wikibase (ref: small VM for testing Wikibase)

Accommodations
The conference will take place at the Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio. The Kalahari is a family-friendly "all-in-one" conference center, hotel and resort, featuring one of the world's largest water parks. Anyone who stays at the hotel gets free admission to the water park.

Please be sure to book your rooms at the Kalahari using the following link:

 https://book.passkey.com/e/50040957 

See the resort map here.

Getting there
The nearest major airports are Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE), which is 50 minutes away by car, and Toledo Express Airport (TOL), which is about an hour away by car. There is also Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW), which is around two hours away by car.

If you are arriving at Cleveland Hopkins Airport, it may be possible to carpool with others to get to the Kalahari. If enough people arrive at a certain time, we may even be able to arrange one or more shuttles. If you would like to share a ride to the venue, please put your name and approximate arrival time below:

Sunday (March 29th)
 * Bryan Hilderbrand - 6:31pm (Renting a car, waiting for Lex to arrive)
 * Lex Sulzer - 8:14pm (riding with Bryan)
 * Daren Welsh - TBD (this is what I want to do, but am waiting on approval)
 * Cindy Cicalese - 2:14pm (Renting a car)

Monday (March 30th)

Tuesday (March 31st)
 * Yaron Koren - 1 PM
 * Sam Wilson - staying at the airport Monday night, so any time Tuesday is good for me

Sponsors
The current sponsors of EMWCon are:

To become a sponsor, please contact Richard Evans at richard.k.evans@nasa.gov