Wikimedia Conference 2016/Social events
Event schedule edit
- Thursday, April 21, 2016
- 6 pm to 11 pm
- Dinner snacks and drinks will be provided at WMDE’s office and event space (address below) to meet, chat and to toast to a wonderful conference weekend.
- Friday, April 22, 2016
- 6 pm to 11 pm
- After the end of the first conference day, snacks and drinks will be waiting for you at WMDE’s office and event space.
- Saturday, April 23, 2016
- 6:30 pm to 1 am
- Let’s have a party and round off Saturday in a club, with music and snacks. The party will be in the HomeBase Lounge again (address below). We will begin the evening with dinner and drinks. A DJ will enhance the atmosphere with classic disco hits and get you in the dancing mood.
- Sunday, April 24, 2016
- 5:30 pm to 11 pm
- A last dinner at WMDE’s office and event space will be provided to round off the Wikimedia Conference 2016.
Important Addresses edit
WMDE Office (Dinner Snack)
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
Click here (OSM) for exact location.
HomeBase Lounge (WMCON Party)
HomeBase Lounge
Köthener Str. 44
10963 Berlin
Click here for exact location.
Guided city walks edit
Martin Rulsch, volunteer, provides sightseeing tours through his home city Berlin. Please register for a tour if you want to join, and send him an email: Wikimail, derhexer
wikipedia.de.
For further information see the subpages and sign up there too.
- April 20, 9:30 am: Full day tour
- April 24, right after the conference: Some sights tour
“Thematic Tables” edit
As mentioned above, all participants are invited to WMDE's office and have dinner snack on several days. In our main room (MOSAIK) there will be tables and benches to hang out and have chat. On Friday evening, there will be some so-called “Thematic Tables”, where people are invited to have chats about specific, thematic issues. So far, we haven the following “Thematic Tables”:
- Wikidata (with Jens Ohlig and other Wikidata team members)
- Education (with Tighe Flanagan)
- Communications (with members of the Wikimedia Foundation Communications Department)
- Grants (with members of the WMF Community Resources Team)
- Wikipedia to the Moon (WMDE's Communications team)
- Global Reach Partnerships (with Dan Foy and Jorge Vargas)
Thematic/regional/language-specific meetups edit
If you are planning a thematic/regional/language-specific meetup, please indicate your interest in the overview below. The event team suggests to use the rooms at the conference venue Verlag der Tagesspiegel from 6.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. on Friday, April 22, for this purpose. In order to be able to better plan ahead, we would like to kindly ask you to indicate your interest in hosting the get-together on Friday in the overview below (see "Comments").
| Meetup Name | Description | Initiator/Contact Person | Participants | Date&Time (suggested by event team) | Location (suggested by event team) | Comments |
 Arabic meetup
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Discussion on the following topics (feel free to add more):
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Friday from 6.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. | Room A + Work Station (A3) | Shared time/space for 4 regional/thematic meetups (decide yourself how to divide) | ||
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Discussion on the following topics (feel free to add more):
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Friday from 6.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. | Room A + Work Station (A3) | Shared time/space for 4 regional/thematic meetups (decide yourself how to divide) | ||
 African meetup
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Discussion on the following topics (feel free to add more): |
Friday from 6.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. | Room A + Work Station (A3) | Shared time/space for 4 regional/thematic meetups (decide yourself how to divide) | ||
 Francophones meetup
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Discussion on the following topics (feel free to add more): | Friday from 6.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. | Room A + Work Station (A3) | Shared time/space for 4 regional/thematic meetups (decide yourself how to divide) | ||
| U.S. and Canada meetup |
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| Central and Eastern Europe meetup | Friday from 6.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. | Room E | Etherpad | |||
| East and SouthEast Asia meetup |
Discussion on the following topics (feel free to add more):
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 Liang-chih ShangKuan (WMTW)
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Friday from 6.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. | Cloakroom | Meeting Minutes | |
| Iberocoop meetup |
Discussion on the following topics (feel free to add more): |
Friday from 6.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. | Room D | |||
| Communications meetup | Discussion on the following topics (feel free to request topics you or your community need!)
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Zachary McCune (Wikimedia Foundation Communications) | Saturday from 1.00 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. | Room B | ||
| Public Policy / Advocacy meetup | Discussion on the following topics (feel free to request topics you or your community need!)
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Sunday from 14.30 to 15.30 | Room B |
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