Wikimania Free Culture Weekend

  • June 17, 2014

This blog post was written by John Cummings, Wikimania support at Wikimedia UK

Last weekend the Wikimania Fringe Free Culture event took place at the Barbican Centre with 20 people attending from a range of cultural organisations, Wikimedia chapters, open knowledge projects and members of the public.

Navino Evans demonstrating Histropedia

Saturday

A series of talks on topics related to open knowledge took place, presented by a wide range of speakers:

Further notes on talks are available on the event Etherpad here.

Sunday

Sunday was used as a space for discussion of open projects,  sharing knowledge and planning future work. The day included a tour of Conservatory at the Barbican Centre by the events Manager. Further photos of the event are available here.

Tour of the Barbican Centre Conservatory

Future Wikimania events 

There are a number of future Wikimania events, culminating in Wikimania on the 8–10 August at the Barbican Centre.

Tickets for Wikimania are available here, early bird tickets are available until July 1st, all fringe events are free to attend.

Volunteering

There are many opportunities to get involved in Wikimania; we will need volunteers in the run-up to the conference and to help with the smooth running of Wikimania itself. For most tasks you don’t need to be a Wikipedia editor and you don’t need any experience – just a willingness to help! For more information see Your Wikimania Needs You! To register to volunteer at Wikimania please sign up here, for questions contact hera@wikimanialondon.org.

 

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