Aug
26
2009
Things to love about this year’s Wikimania:
incredible social areas, a hacking area & the upstairs sofas with coffee and snacks and power
beautiful swag– a bag, a book and a tshirt; with wonderful designs
simultaneous translation and a bilingual conference
a great hotel for attendees
volunteer moderators in the sessions
the fabulous cool weather
wifi everywhere, which seems to be working [...]
Aug
20
2009
Wikimania
維基媒體國際會議
ويكيمانيا
Wikimanía
‘wikimania’ in the five languages it’s been in so far (German & English are the same)
I am off in 36 hours to the 5th annual Wikimania Conference, held this year in glorious Buenos Aires. This community conference should be several hundred strong, our first Spanish language and first Southern Hemisphere conference. I can’t wait.
I [...]
Aug
01
2009
The Digital Open is a contest and community to encourage young innovators (age 17 and under) to develop, share and showcase their ideas for free & libre technology projects. The online contest will give prizes in categories such as open code projects, open community projects, science projects, environmental projects, games, entrepreneurial projects, and more: [...]