Hi,
Congratulation to all the selection committee who break the tradition[1] of selecting one of the Malayalam communities two permanent Wikimania attendees, by selecting both of them.
Congratulation to User:Netha Hussain & User:viswaprabha also.
[1] "Granting Scholarship to same persons every year" thread, https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2017-May/008026.html
~User:Praveenp
All,
Here's an update on various activities pertaining to the upcoming Wikimania '18 which is being held July 18-22 in Cape Town, South Africa.
WMF Scholarship Program: 135 people were offered and subsequently accepted a full or partial scholarship to attend. The awardees are listed by user names and the list is posted here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars Submissions: The program committee has just finished its review and deliberations. Rejections and acceptance emails have gone out in the past week.
95% of the accepted submissions are listed at:
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program
Plenaries and other sessions will be listed soon and a scheduled program in June.
Registration and accommodation information is now up for everyone at: https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accommodation If you are a scholarship or other WMF funded attendee (staff, contractor, board, etc), please wait until you hear from the WMF with your registration and accommodation instructions. If you have any questions about the conference, please email wikimania-info at wikimedia.org Please spread the word!!!! On behalf of the Wikimania '18 Organizing Team
Ellie Young Events Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
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