Wikimania 2005:Speakers

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Wikimania is a multilingual and multidisciplinary conference. We have invited speakers from many different fields, including reference work publishers, librarians and archivists, museum curators, software developers, free culture activists, online community leaders, lawyers, journalists, academics and businessmen.

Plenary speakers

Jimmy Wales will be a keynote speaker Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia	Not to mention the Mayfield Ross Mayfield, CEO of Socialtext
So will Ward Cunningham Ward Cunningham, inventor of wiki technology	Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation.

Panels

Global Voices : Wikis and information diversity

Participants: Hossein Derakhshan, Isaac Mao, Milton Aineruhanga and Kasper Souren.

Wikis and Politics

Participants: Jimmy Wales, Isaac Mao, Ascander Suarez, Jean-Baptiste Soufron.

Tutorials and Workshops

The Pywikipediabot framework and its extensions

Tutorial leader: Andre Engels

Extending and Customizing MediaWiki

Tutorial leader: Brion Vibber

Copyright case studies

Tutorial leaders: Jean-Baptiste Soufron and Enrique Chaparro

Wikimedia Statistics and Visualization

Tutorial leaders: Jakob Voss and Erik Zachte

Developing long-term finanical plans for Wikimedia

Workshop leader: Frank Antwerpes

Sound: Incorporating audio content into Wikimedia projects

Workshop leader: Gerard Meijssen

Finding new sources of free knowledge

Workshop leader: Thomas Thaler

Presentations

Ross Mayfield: Case studies on wiki use within Enterprises for project communication

About the speaker: Ross Mayfield is the CEO of Socialtext, one of the leading developers of enterprise wikis.

Ward Cunningham: Wikis then and now

Abstract: A reflection on the development of wikis over the past decade.

About the speaker: Ward Cunningham is the programmer who designed and named the first wiki. Since then, he has invented and written two best-selling books about Extreme Programming. He currently works in Microsoft's "Prescriptive Architecture Guidance" group.

Richard Stallman: Copyright and Community

About the speaker: Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation.

Achal Prabhala: An overview of the access to learning materials situation in Southern Africa

About the speaker: Achal Prabhala works on improving access to technology and information in South Africa.

Florence Devouard: Wikimedia projects in the developing countries

About the speaker: Florence Devouard is an elected member of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees.

Brion Vibber: Extending and embedding the MediaWiki framework

About the speaker: Brion Vibber is Wikimedia's Chief Technical Officer and its second employee. He lives in Los Angeles, where he slaves for Wikimedia by day and Wikipedia by night.

Erik Moeller: Future MediaWiki Research

About the speaker: Erik Moeller is a journalist and open source advocate, whose first book, Die heimliche Medienrevolution - Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern, was published last year.

Wolfgang Georgsdorf: Sign Language Wiktionary

About the speaker: Wolfgang Georgsdorf is an artist and filmmaker who has worked with deaf people for many years. He has produced a sign language dictionary on CD-ROM in the past and is now exploring and promoting the potential of wikis for teaching and using sign language.

Stefan Magdalinski: Wikiproxy and other magic

About the speaker: Stefan Magdalinski often knows where his towel is.

Domas Mituzas: Running the hyper wiki

About the speakers: Domas Mituzas is a member of the core team of Wikimedia developers and server maintainers. His speciality is handling WikiDowns and WikiUps.

Sunir Shah: Wikis and community

About the speaker: Sunir Shah was the founder of MeatballWiki, one of the oldest icons in the wikisphere.