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Wikimania 2007 Taipei :: a Globe in Accord

Wikimania 2007, the third annual international Wikimedia conference, will be held August 3-5 in Taipei, Taiwan at Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center (CTOYAC).

Both a scientific conference and a community event, Wikimania brings together members of various Wikimedia projects in order to exchange ideas, build relationships, and report on research and project efforts.

It also provides an opportunity for Wikimedians and the general public alike to meet and share ideas about free and open source software, free knowledge initiatives, and wiki projects worldwide.

Online Registration is open until July 30.

Attendees | Local Information | Visas

Events

Main Conference : Aug. 3 - Aug. 5
Hacking Days : Aug. 1 - Aug. 2, invitation required
Hacking Days Extra: Aug. 2, open to tech people
Citizen Journalism Unconference : Aug. 2, open to public
Wikimania Party & Film Festival : Aug. 4, open to conference attendees
Taiwanese Cultural Tours : Aug. 6 - Aug. 8, optional.

Note for Registrars

Now, on-site accommodation request will go to the end of waiting list.
If you made your reservation after 15th May, your accommodation booking is not confirmed. Please contact us!
For registration with accommodation, payment should be make within 48 hours. Otherwise, registration and accommodations will be canceled.

Image:Crystal Clear app knewsticker.png News

August 1, Check-in starts.
July 20, Rules of Wikimania Awards for Wikimania 2007 is out.
July 11, Press page is on line for latest news release regarding Wikimania 2007.
July 10, Conference Schedule is up.
July 10, Community Portal is online.

Speakers

Here are some of the speakers of this year:

Achal Prabhala is a researcher and writer based in Bangalore, India, whose research work concerns access to knowledge and to medicine. Recent projects include an initiative to collect and publicly archive literary journals from Kenya, Nigeria, India, South Africa, the Middle East and the US; a report to the Indian Government for an overhaul of country's copyright act; essays on piracy and the legal commons; a commission to evaluate Botswana's patent law and medicines registration system; and an evaluatory framework for assessing copyright law and access to knowledge.

Benjamin Mako Hill is a Debian hacker and author of the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible and "The Official Ubuntu Book". He works in the Computing Culture group of the MIT Media Lab, and is on the boards of Software Freedom International (the organization that organizes Software Freedom Day) and the Ubuntu Foundation. Hill was on the board of Software in the Public Interest from March 2003 until July 2006, serving as the organisation's vice-president from August 2004.

Heather Ford is the Executive Director of iCommons and is based in Johannesburg. iCommons is a relatively new organisation, incubated by Creative Commons, with the goal of bringing together the various 'streams' of the global commons movement. Once a year, iCommons hosts the iCommons Summit (last year in Rio http://www.icommons.org/isummit/, this year in Dubrovnik) where we bring together people who practice commons-based peer production in the areas of free software, open access, Creative Commons, access to knowledge and free culture communities around the world.