- From: Andrea Forte <aforte@cc.gatech.edu>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 10:18:10 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Andrea Forte <aforte@cc.gatech.edu>
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WikiSym 2007
2007 International Symposium on Wikis
Wikis at Work in the World:
Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century
October 21-23, 2007
Palais des Congrs de Montral
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/
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Registration is now open for WikiSym 2007, convening October 21
through 23 in chic, sophisticated, metropolitan Montreal, Quebec.
**Deadline for early registration is October 11th**
NO ORDINARY CONFERENCE
WikiSym is the only international scientific conference dedicated to
wikis. It brings together wiki researchers, practitioners, and
users. The goal of the symposium is to explore and extend our growing
community. It has a rigorously reviewed research paper track as well
as plenty of space for practitioner reports, demonstrations, and open
discussions. Anyone who is involved in using, researching, or
developing wikis is invited to WikiSym 2007!
We recognize that the online world is always evolving, and therefore
welcome people interested in other online media consistent with the
wiki philosophy of being open, organic and participatory.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Our headline speakers this year include many of the thought leaders on
wiki. Our keynote speaker will be Jonathan Grudin (Microsoft Research),
one of the world's leading researcher on Computer Supported
Collaborative Work. Ward Cunningham (AboutUs), inventor of wiki
and founding father of our field, will give the closing talk. Peter
Thoeny (StructuredWikis), creator of TWiki, will give a half day
tutorial on wikis in the workplace.
Our program also includes two headline speakers from ooPSLA, our host
conference. Jim Purbrick and Mark Lentczner, creators of Second Life,
will talk about this collaboratively built 3D virtual world. Peter
Turchi, award-winning author of "Maps of the Imagination", will talk
about the relationships between creative writing, making maps, and
creativity.
That's just a sampling of what makes WikiSym the conference of choice
for wiki researchers.
We are proud to offer you WikiSym and look forward to sharing the
experience with you in Montral this fall.
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Co-located events:
ooPSLA 2007 (http://oopsla.org/)
DLS 2007 (http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls07/)
ISMM 2007 (http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~greg/ismm07/)
LCSD 2007 (http://lcsd.cs.tamu.edu/2007/)
APL 2007 (http://www.sigapl.org/apl2007.html)
Mini PloP (http://refactory.com/OOPSLA_Workshop.html)
CompFrame 2007 (http://www.compframe.org/compframe2007/)
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For more information and to register, go to
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/.
Alain Dsilets (National Research Council of Canada)
WikiSym 2007 Conference Chair
Robert Biddle (Carleton University)
WikiSym 2007 Program Chair
Received on Friday, 7 September 2007 16:04:51 UTC