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, Virginia, 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 the one in the spring of 2016. 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. EMWCon has a broader scope.

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)
 * 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

The deadline for proposals is 21 February

Talks
Some of the talks that will be presented include:
 * Authentication and Authorization in Enterprise Wikis - Cindy Cicalese
 * Enterprise Wiki Analytics - Bernadette Clemente
 * Making our interfaces smarter - Yaron Koren
 * Building confidence in your wiki - Chris Koerner
 * Content is Architecture &mdash; EMW as an ideal platform for implementing the principles of "Every Page is Page One" based on the "Three-Ontologies-Method" - Lex Sulzer
 * MediaWiki as a Software Documentation CMS (tentative) - Juan Lara
 * Synchronizing Wikis - More progress has been made on MABS. I'll introduce it to those who haven't see it and update everyone on the progress. - ☠ MarkAHershberger ☢ (talk) ☣
 * (Your talk idea here)

The full conference program is coming soon.

Lightning Talks

 * Tracking historical invention on a wiki: the airplane and its industry -- Peter Meyer

Registration
To register for this event, go here: For foreign nationals (non-US citizens) only: you must register by February 17. After you register, please send to cicalese@mitre.org an email with the following information: Cost: The cost of the conference includes the two days of talks, the one day Create Camp, breakfast and lunch each of the three days, and a social event Thursday evening.
 * EMWCon Spring 2017 at Eventbrite
 * Last Name
 * First Name
 * Visitor’s Citizenship
 * Company/Organization Represented
 * Company/Organization Country
 * $422.99 standard rate
 * $159.24 reduced rate for students and freelancers

Local accommodations
See EMWCon_Spring_2017/Hotels for a list of suggested hotels in the area.

Grants for Wikimedians
Travel & Participation Support funds Wikimedians to actively represent Wikimedia at events around the world. Learn about the Travel & Participation Support program

Social activities
On the first night of the event Wikimedia DC will be co-hosting an edit-a-thon around the theme "re-linking the government" (tentative title).

The second night, Thursday, will be the conference dinner. Join us at Barrel and Bushel, one metro stop to Tyson's Corner and a short 6 minute walk.

Sign-up
Also, feel free to add your name to the informal registration signup, below:
 * 1)  Cindy Cicalese
 * 2)  Bernadette Clemente
 * 3) Peter Meyer
 * 4) ☠ MarkAHershberger ☢ (talk) ☣
 * 5) Yaron Koren
 * 6) Lex
 * 7) G. Brett Miller
 * 8) Ckoerner (talk)
 * 9) Jason Bock
 * 10) Tom
 * 11) Raj Kumar Maurya
 * 12) Alex Tanchoco
 * 13) Nicholas Hoffman
 * 14) Tina Tenbergen
 * 15) Marcin Cieślak - looking for some nice area to stay - anyone planning to stay in D.C.?
 * 16) Bryan Hilderbrand
 * 17) Juan Lara