Wikicite/e-scholarship/BamLifa

Project name

What is a short name for the activity/project you are proposing? Conference Prep for HackoctoberFest 2020

Contact information

your name and/or Wikimedia username

BamLifa

your contact e-mail

news.abelprotonmail.com

your nearest city and country

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Kisangani, CD

Details of team members (optional)
If this application is for a team project, each additional team member (up to 5 total) should have their name/username, project role, location, and contact details here:

Yves Madika

ityvesmadikagmail.com

VALENTIN NVJ

valentinhonvj1gmail.com

The activity/project

Tell us about your proposed project. What will you get achieved with this time?
Describe why you think this project is important, and how the project is different from your normal volunteer contributions.

KALI ACADEMY is organizing Hackoctoberfest DRCongo at the end of the month of October 2020. The call for proposal is already launched and we are about to apply. We are planning to do 3 activities:

• a talk on Wikicite in general
• a do-a-thon on Scholia/Wikidata
• a hack-a-thon on Scholia, Citation.js

Note that the main language for the conference is French.

Your qualifications

Describe how you (and, if applicable, your team) are able to achieve this project. What skills, expertise, and motivation do you have which will enable you to succeed?

We are software engineers and OSS advocates. We organize and/or speak at conferences, hackathons, install-party... We are also community influencers and represent the city in many Wikimedia related conferences or workshops: Wikimania, Wikiconvention francophone, Wikiindaba, East Africa Strategic salon (Wikimedia 2030)... You can learn more about what we do in the links below:

• Salon stratégique Janvier-Février 2020
• Strategy Wikimedia movement
• https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiPermanence/Kisangani/2020
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mois_de_la_contribution_francophone_Kisangani/2018/fr
• https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/16400

Proposed activity dates

When will you undertake this project? (This may be two, three or four days. Not necessarily consecutive). The latest allowable date is 1 May 2021.

Oct 20 - 23, 2020.

Endorsements

Optional: Community members are encouraged to endorse your proposal and leave a rationale here.

• it would really be a great opportunity for participants to learn more about Wikida (how it works) during this event which is dedicated to free knowledge (open source). --TshiluChris (talk) 17:13, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
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Status

closed