Wikimedia Conference 2017/Thematic, regional, language-specific meetups
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Thematic/regional/language-specific meetups
editIf 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 Mercure Hotel Berlin Tempelhof Airport from 19:30 to 23:00 on Friday, March 31, 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.
| Meetup Name | Description | Initiator/Contact Person | Participants | Date&Time (suggested by event team) | Location
(suggested by event team) |
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| Arabic Wikimedians | Meetup for Arabic speaking Wikimedians, of the six user groups (Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Levant, Iraq, and Morocco) | Fjmustak | Farah Mustaklem, Emna Mizouni, Mounir TOUZRI, Anass Sedrati, Jack Rabah, Nidhal Jarrar | Friday 31.03, from 19:30 | Körner 2 | |
| East and South East Asia Wikimedians | Meetup for East and South East Asia Wikimedians (Related participants such as members ofTaiwan and Indonesia Chapter; Korea, China, Thailand, Philippines Usergroup, and Malaysia Wikimedians) (The agenda. | Liang_(WMTW) | Aaron (WMTW), Biyanto (WMID), Filipinayzd (PH-WC), Kartika (WMID), Erick (CN), Motoko(KO), Chongkian (Wikipedia Malaysia), Taweetham | Friday 31.03, from 19:30 | Körner 1 | |
| Wikimedians from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) | Meetup for Wikimedians from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) | Magalia | ~ 40, including Sakhalinio (WMTR) |
Friday 31.03, from 19:30 | Britz | Meeting program and minutes |
| Wikidata meetup | Come and meet other Wikidata editors, ask questions, chat about your favorite tools and topics. All Wikidata editors, beginners or experienced, are welcome. English and German spoken. | Léa | see the list here | Friday 31.03, from 19:30 | Schiller Bar (Herrfurthstraße 7), very close to the conference venue | |
| African Meetup | Meetup for all African Wikimedians, come lets meet and discuss the future of Indaba and Indaba 18! | Felix | Emna Mizouni, Mounir TOUZRI, Georges Fodouop, Alice Backer, Raphael Berchie, Blossom Ozurumba, Anass Sedrati, Oliver Stegen (sw:wp), Thouny | Friday 31.03, from 19:30 - 20:00 | Hasenheide | |
| Wikimedia DC Open House | Come and chat with the Wikimedia DC team! Let's talk about how we can collaborate on programs in the United States and around the world! | Kirill Lokshin | 10–20 | Friday 31.03, from 19:30 | Kindl | |
| WM Minority languages Europe | Meetup for minorities languages in Europe or other, discussing common grounds and challenges, as well as future prospects | Iñaki LL | Kippelboy (Amical Wikimedia), Rodelar, Mboix (Wikimujeres, Viquidones, Wikiemakume), Ilario | Friday 31.03, from 19:30 | Schulenburg | |
| Wiki Loves Monuments | Informal meetup in a bar for WLM previous, current and future organizers (and others). To hang out, inspire each other and have fun. Because built heritage is cool! | Effeietsanders | Friday 31.03, from 19:30 (people will scatter after an hour) | Mercure hotel bar | ||
| WikiWomen | WikiWomen meet up during the Friday afternoon break to say hello to old friends and make new ones! Looks like the largest gathering of WikiWomen at WMCon ever! | Anasuyas and Rosiestep | Alice Backer, Mboix, Blossom Ozurumba, Camelia(Wikimujeres, Viquidones, Wikiemakume, WikiDonne) Sameichel, Astrid Carlsen (WMNO), Shouston (WMF), Alex Wang, Geisa Santos | Friday, 31.03, 15.45 to 16.30 | Hasenheide (hotel venue) | |
| Esperanto Wikimedians | Meet-up of members of the Esperanto User Group, another Esperanto speaking participants and interested non-speakers. | KuboF Hromoslav (talk) | 5-10 | Saturday | The meet-up language will be Esperanto. You are welcome also if you are interested how it sounds :-) | |
| Cooperation between Iberocoop and WikiIndaba | Meet-up of members of Iberocoop and WikiIndaba affiliates | User:Flixtey, User:Anna Torres (WMF), User:Bimbo, User:Bachounda, User:Rberchie, User:Islahaddow, User:ProtoplasmaKid | 5-10 | Friday, 17:45 to 18:30 | Hasenheide (hotel venue) | |
| Wikimedia Commons meet-up | Fæ
User: Mboix |
Friday, 31.3., from 19:30 | Kindl | |||
| Tech Talk | Do you miss talking about software development? Do you need some engineering comfort? Or maybe you just like geeks? Join us! | Qgil-WMF after some email requests | n++; | Friday, 21:00 till late. | Bar at the Hotel Lobby | The plan is to have conversation free as in freedom but (sorry) not free beer. |
| Iberocoop | Meeting for Iberocoop initiative chapters and affiliates | ProtoplasmaKid | Saturday, 15:15 | Hasenheide | ||
| Nordic Wikimedia meetup | Meeting for chapters and affiliates from Nordic countries | Tanel Pern, WMEE (User:Daniel Charms) | 10-15 | Saturday, 16:00 | Körner 2 | |
| Wikipedia + Libraries Meetup | Wikimedians who work with libraries, librarians who work with Wikimedia. All welcome. | Jake Orlowitz | 10-30 | Sunday lunch, 13:15-14:15 | Kindl | If you like libraries, really you have to come! |
| LGTB+ meetup | LGBT+ user group discussion. everyone
interested in improving access to, and the quality of, LGBT+ information and policies on our Wikimedia projects is welcome to join in or find out more in a relaxed and informal late chat. |
Fae | Friday, 21:30 | Kindl | ||
| Diaspora oranisations | Meetup for world-wide organisation, which are non-geographically focused and operating in diaspora mode. | Daniel Mietchen, KuboF Hromoslav | invitees: Esperanto and Free Knowledge, Art+Feminism User Group, Wikimedia LGBT+, MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group, WikiWomen's User Group/ Wikimujeres, The Wikinewsie Group, Wiki Project Med | Saturday, 16:15 | Körner 1 | meetup page |
| Turkic languages meetup | Meetup for Turkic languages representatives and interested persons | Visem | invitees: Turkic Speking persons & guests | Saturday, 16:20 | Britz | |
| Wiki Loves Earth meetup | Meetup to discuss Wiki Loves Earth. Just walk in at any time between 13:00 and 14:00 if you have ideas or want to give some feedback about organising WLE or if you have questions. | NickK | People organising, wanting to organise or just wanting to know more about WLE | Saturday lunch, 13:00-14:00 | Schulenburg |