Wikimania/2008
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Wikimania 2008 [edit]
Wikimania 2008 was held in Alexandria (Egypt) on July 17-19, 2008.
General information:
- Official wiki: wikimania2008.wikimedia.org.
- Location: Bibliotheca Alexandrina
- Attendance: 625, with quite a few local Egyptians coming and learning about the projects too.
- Conference languages: English
- Cost to attend: Registration; for a Wikimedia contributor the early bird price was US$45 and regular registration was US$60
- Accommodation: Delta Hotel, Windsor Hotel, Metropole Hotel and Saint marc dorms
- Sponsors:Open Society Institue, WikiHow, Hp, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Raya, Intel, ACT, Kaltura, Onkosh, Wikia Gaming, Wikia Entertainement, eSpace
- (Un)official theme song: I Will Revise
Program:
- Keynote speakers: Ismail Serageldin, Elaine Metni, Ahmed Tantawi
- Program information:
- Link to CfP: wm2008:Call for Participation
- Link to program proceedings:
- Preconferences:
- WMF organizational meetings, special meetings: WMF Board panel, open to all conference attendees
- Session videos Kaltura,Archived Video Streams, Bibalex Downloads
- Program software used:
- Program review process used:
Media:
- Link to photos: Wikimania2008 on Commons, Wikimania2008 on Flickr
- Number of journalists attending:
- Media stories:
Planning:
- Lead organizers (note! please add to and/or correct if necessary): Mido (local lead), Delphine (WMF), Biblioteca Alexandrina co-hosted
- Planning wiki: mostly on teamwiki, some in the program software (pentabarf), some on the '08 wiki, lots in private documents
- Program/registration software used: program software was pentabarf, registration was just a database and a form
- Planning mailing list:
- Bid page::
Budget and funding:
- Total budget:
- Scholarship budget:
- Total scholarships awarded:
- Link to budget breakdown:
- Funds from the WMF:
- Sponsors:
Reports:
- Postmortem page:
- Suggestions page:
- Budget reports:
- Other reports:
