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
 * 18) Greg Rundlett (talk) 18:17, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
 * 19) Peter Meyer 25 Feb 2019
 * 20) Alex Tanchoco
 * 21) Phil Keith
 * 22) Jared Olson
 * 23) Clément Flipo
 * 24) Rich Evans
 * 25) Matteo Busanelli
 * 26) Claire Braico
 * 27) Thomas Fellows
 * 28) Daren Welsh

Keynote
We are honored to have Denny Vrandečić - Semantic MediaWiki co-creator, Wikidata founder, Google ontologist, former Wikimedia Trustee - join us to present a keynote. He will present "Wikidata and beyond", including a quick update on the status of Wikidata and a discussion of his idea for an Abstract Wikipedia.

Talks
The first two days of the conference will be devoted to talks and panels. If you want to give a presentation or lighting talk, please see the Call for Presentations and add the title below. If you'd like to organize a panel, please add the title, the name of the panel moderator, and a list of suggested panelists 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
 * 11) "Update on some internal government wikis" - Peter Meyer
 * 12) "General Electric's approach to putting knowledge into context using MediaWiki" - Evita Hollis
 * 13) "Using (Semantic) Mediawiki on an Enterprise Knowlegde Management Platform: from Banking IT Governance to Smart City Hub Portals." - Matteo Busanelli

Lightning talks
Add the name of your lightning talk(s) below.

Create Camp
The third day of the conference will consist of self-organized groups working together around topics of common interest. Some of those topics might be planned before the conference, while others may come out of the talks in the two previous days. If you have an idea for a topic for a group during the Create Camp, please add it below.


 * 1) Create a SMW Set of classes that operate as a classical property chain.
 * ''i.e. "Site/Building/Room/Location" or "kingdom/phylum/class/order.." or "System/Subsystem/Element", "Company, Org, Branch, Division"
 * the goal of the create camp would be to show how one would create a system of categories, forms, templates, properties, and pages that would allow users to implement *any* generalized organizational scheme that fits the traditional structured-tree.
 * 1) Roadmap to MediaWiki as an enterprise platform
 * 2) Identify reasons MW isn't taken seriously by companies/orgs (we all know the selling points, but what is it missing?)
 * Advertising? MS Office integration? Actionable discussion?
 * 1) Outline a path to address each of these reasons
 * 2) Your Create Camp idea here.

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.


 * Nineteen 06 Mission (bed and breakfast)
 * 1906 Mission St., San Francisco
 * 6 miles away - 25 minutes by car, 25 minutes by BART
 * ~ $170/night


 * Comfort Inn & Suites San Francisco Airport West
 * 611 San Bruno Ave. East, San Bruno
 * 7 miles away, 12 minutes by car, 37 minutes by BART
 * ~ $230/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 Write the Docs meetup, 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, though if you do want to attend, please sign up on the meetup page.

Social activities
There will 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 at Sea Bowl
 * Thursday evening, April 4: a reception at the Wikimedia Foundation office in downtown San Francisco

Sponsors
We also want to thank two other organizations which, though not directly sponsoring the conference, are providing financial assistance:
 * The Open Semantic Data Association, who are providing financial backup for the conference
 * The Wikimedia Foundation, who are providing catering for the Thursday reception at the WMF office

Finally, we would like to thank Genesys, for graciously providing the facilities for the conference.