Wikipedia Science Conference/Planning/CFP

This is a draft for discussion. Please don't treat it as final

How to propose a session for the Wikipedia Science Conference

Personal details

• Full name
• Affiliation (this might be an educational or research institution, a charity or other organisation, or could be a Wikimedia project that you are involved in)
• Contact email address (if not the email you are using to send the expression of interest)
• Where will you be travelling from to attend this conference?
  • Since we are aiming to pay speakers's travel costs, preference will be given to people travelling from within the UK. However, geographical location within the UK will not be a basis for acceptance or rejection of the proposal.

Themes

Please identify one or two themes from the following that your session is most relevant to:

• Wikipedia and Wikimedia as platforms for promoting informed public discussion
• Wikipedia and Wikimedia as a platform for research
• Wikipedia and Wikimedia as a model for scientific publishing and citizen science
• Wikipedia and Wikimedia as platforms for scientific education
• Women in STEM subjects

See Wikipedia_Science_Conference#Themes for more details and links.

Availability

The conference will take place on Weds 2nd and Thurs 3rd of September. Please indicate if you are available for both of those days. We reserve the right to give priority to speakers who can attend the whole conference.

Notes

• The conference centre is equipped with modern audio-visual equipment and internet for slides, video, live demos etc.
• Any speakers using originally presentation materials will be expected to make them available openly and under a free licence for sharing on Wikimedia Commons. Free licences include Attribution (CC-BY), Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA), and No Rights Reserved (CC 0). If non-free material is needed to make your point, then go ahead, but inform the conference organisers that this slide/ video/ other material is an exception.