EMWCon Spring 2017

The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2017, or EMWCon Spring 2017, will be held Wednesday to Friday, March 8-10, 2017, in McLean, VA, USA, a suburb of Washington, DC. EMWCon Spring 2017 will be 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. There will be two days of talks followed by a one day Create Camp. The intended audience of EMWCon Spring 2017 is anyone who uses, or would like to learn more about, MediaWiki within organizations.

This is the second EMWCon, after EMWCon Spring 2016 last year. EMWCon began as a spinoff of the Semantic MediaWiki Conference, or SMWCon, which is an annual conference, held in the fall in Europe. EMWCon and SMWCon are not that different from one another: they are both three-day events, and, despite EMWCon's broader scope, the overall topics of discussion tend to be similar.

EMWCon Spring 2017 will be located at MITRE, a not-for-profit organization that manages Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) sponsored by the US federal government.

Event details

 * Dates: Wednesday, March 8 - Friday, March 10, 2017
 * Times: 9 AM - 6 PM
 * Location: MITRE Corporation. MITRE 4, 7596 Colshire Drive McLean, VA 22102 Directions
 * Metro: McLean station, Silver Line
 * Hashtag: #EMWCon

Organizers
The organizers of EMWCon Spring 2016 are:
 * General Chair: Cindy Cicalese
 * Local Chair: Bernadette Clemente
 * Registration Chair: Yaron Koren
 * Program Chair: Chris Koerner
 * Create Camp Chair: Mark Hershberger

For any issues, you can contact the organizers on the talk page, or email Cindy at [mailto:cicalese@mitre.org cicalese@mitre.org].

Presentations
To propose a talk or lightning talk at EMWCon, please add the proposed title, a brief description and your name, below. Suggested topics include:
 * Examples of use of MediaWiki in organizations
 * Lessons learned and challenges in the use of MediaWiki and MediaWiki extensions in organizations
 * Gamification and other incentives for wiki contributions
 * Wikitext patterns and wiki design patterns
 * Wiki development frameworks
 * MediaWiki extension usage and development
 * New extensions, extension updates, and ideas for future extensions

Registration
Coming Soon

Sign-up
Also, feel free to add your name to the informal registration signup, below:
 * Cindy Cicalese
 * Peter Meyer
 * ☠ MarkAHershberger ☢ (talk) ☣
 * Yaron Koren