SMWCon Fall 2013/Call for Contributions

Dear semantic wiki users and developers,

We are very happy to announce that early bird registration to the 8th Semantic MediaWiki Conference is now open!

Important facts reminder:

Dates: October 28th to October 30th 2013 (Monday to Wednesday)
Location: A&O Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Lehrter Str. 12, 10557 Berlin, Germany
Conference wiki page: https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2013
Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in Semantic MediaWiki, e.g. users, developers, consultants, business representatives and researchers.

We welcome new contributions from you:

We encourage contributions about applications and development of semantic wikis; for a list of topics, see [1]
Please propose regular talks, posters or super-short lightning talks on the conference website. We will provide feedback to you and do our best to consider your proposal in the conference program
Tutorials and presentations will be video and audio recorded and made available for others after the conference.
If you've already announced your talk it's now time to expand its description

News on participation, tutorials and keynote

You can now officially register for the conference [2] and benefit from early bird fees until September 14, 2013
The tutorial program has been announced and available [3]. This year we have two tutorial tracks:
- The beginner's tutorials are focused on business applications of semantic wikis
- The developer's tutorials will help you to become Semantic MediaWiki programmer: contributing to core and and writing extensions for your specific needs
Professor Yolanda Gil from the University of Southern California [4] will give a keynote on scientific data curation

Organizers and sponsors

Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. [5] has become the official organiser of SMWCon Fall 2013
Thanks to our sponsors WikiVote [6] (platinum) and ArchiXL [7] (gold) fees for this SMWCon remain low

If you have questions you can contact Yury Katkov (Program Chair), Benedikt Kämpgen (General Chair) or Karsten Hoffmeyer (Local Chair) per e-mail (Cc).

We will be happy to see you in Berlin!

Yury Katkov, Program Chair

[1] <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2013/Announcement>
[2] <http://de.amiando.com/PVADAOV.html>
[3] <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2013#Program>
[4] <http://www.isi.edu/~gil/>
[5] <https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Hauptseite>
[6] <http://wikivote.ru/>
[7] <http://www.archixl.nl/>