EMWCon Spring 2022

The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2022, or EMWCon Spring 2022, will be held April 6-8 in Houston, TX. 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 2022 is anyone who uses, or would like to learn more about, MediaWiki within organizations.

This is the seventh EMWCon. EMWCon began as a spinoff of the Semantic MediaWiki Conference, or SMWCon, which is an annual conference held each fall in Europe. EMWCon and SMWCon are both three-day conferences with similar topics of discussion, though EMWCon has a broader scope.

Event details

 * Dates: April 6-8 2022
 * Times:
 * Location: Hilton Houston Westchase

Registration
(in progress)

Sign-up
Also, feel free to add your name to the informal registration signup, below:

In-person

 * Bryan Hilderbrand
 * Jeffrey Wang
 * Yaron Koren
 * Ike Hecht
 * David Every
 * Margaret Gainsley
 * Lane Becker (WMF)
 * Matthew Westerby

Online

 * Tina Tenbergen
 * Megan Cutrofello
 * Tom Fellows
 * Rich Evans (working on attending in-person)
 * Lexi McGillivray (also working on attending in-person)
 * Jared Olson (working on attending in-person)
 * User:Justin C Lloyd

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


 * "State of Wikimedia Enterprise in 2022" - Lane Becker
 * "Introducing EMWFS - A File Folder and File Attachment project for Mediawiki" - Rich Evans
 * “Project Canasta updates” - Jeffrey Wang
 * "MediaWiki packages" - Ike Hecht
 * "Handling external data in MediaWiki" - Yaron Koren

Local accommodations
Everyone is encouraged to stay at the Hilton Houston Westchase, a block rate for each room of $105 has been negotiated, please let them know you are a part of EMWCon 2022. Please note that we do not have the group rate code yet, so please refrain from booking your accommodation with Hilton until we provide the group rate code.

Room sharing
If you would like to share a room, please add your name below:

Shared room signup:
 * Name

Social activities
(in progress)

Sponsorship
The current sponsors of EMWCon are:

If you are interested in sponsoring EMWCon 2022, please contact Ike Hecht, the conference sponsor chair.

Entering the United States
In the United States, requirements relating to COVID-19 are mandated by the President of the United States and are administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United States' national public health agency.

Foreign travelers from all countries are currently permitted to enter the United States as long as they are fully vaccinated and have a negative test result or a positive result recent documentation of recovery from a doctor.

All travelers to the United States, regardless of citizenship or vaccination status, are required to have a negative COVID-19 test administered either the day of or 1 day before departure of your first flight. For more information on these requirements, or for the criteria of using a certificate of recovery, see this page on CDC.gov.

The United States government is relatively flexible with the kind of tests that can be used for entering the country. All reputable PCR and antigen tests which provide a certification of your result by a lab or a government authority are accepted for entry. Even a remotely-proctored, antigen COVID-19 test authorized by the FDA under an EUA such as Abbott's BinaxNOW is accepted for entry.

Entry requirements are subject to change at any time by presidential proclamation. Always check the CDC website for the latest requirements.

In Texas
The local chair is actively monitoring local restrictions and will advise the organizers of any changes in rules that would impact the conference. We currently do not anticipate the State of Texas from imposing any sort of restrictions.