Grants:TPS/Zabien/EMWCon Spring 2018/Report

Event name

EMWCon Spring 2018

Participant connections

The enterprise MediaWiki conference was attended solely by enthusiastic, interested and well-informed community members. Discussions happened on a very skilled, sophisticated level while still inviting newer attendees to participate in sharing their questions and topics. The overall atmosphere was highly professional, welcoming and supporting growth in learning. Without favouring single persons, to me it was especially rewarding to work with everybody from the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group and the numerous participants from NASA.

Outcome

Blog post: How to fly the wiki way (newsletter will be published)

Working on two best practice wikis:

enterprisemediawiki.org for best practices within the community

academy.wikiahoi.at (not yet published) for a brief introduction into working with Semantic MediaWiki based on defining an ontology, as well as a showcase for an ontology pattern.

Finances

Budget breakdown planned:

Flight	Vienna – Houston roundtrip	USD 1100.00
Accommodation	on average USD 125 per night x 6 nights	USD 750.00
Event registration		USD 424.35
Sum	=	USD 2274.35
	≙	EUR 1850.14

Exchange rate: EUR 0.81348 and USD 1.229150 from 2018-01 Oanda

Budget breakdown real:

Flight	Vienna – Houston roundtrip	USD 1541.54
Accommodation	AirBnB	USD 374.70
Event registration	discount student rate	USD 160.39
VISA USA		USD 80.00
Sum	=	USD 2156.62
	≙	EUR 1762.02

Exchange rate: EUR 0.81703 and USD 1.223800 from 2018-04-24 Oanda

Amount left over

Yes, USD 109.10 (EUR 89.14)

Anything else

Documentation of presentations:

• Structuring knowledge according to "Every Page is Page One (EPPO)" (presentation page), video recording and slides.
• MediaWiki and the European GDPR (lightening talk) and slides

Thank you for this great opportunity! It's an experience I will be feeding off for a long time.