2021/Organizing teams

Like previous WikiConferences, this conference will be organized by a core team and focused teams or committees on various issues

Core team: Pharos (Richard) (WMF Liaison), Econterms (Peter) (Budget/finance), and more to come

Logistics team: (translations, broadcast, video, platforms, working w/ Event Manager): Platforms will include presentations (zoom/google meet/jitsi, social spaces like gather, and perhaps broadcast, like Streamyard/youtube; must choose and test these, and how to degrade/backup). Also real-world logistics for the picnics. Might have social time on Clubhouse, before or during the conference or during. So far includes Pharos, econterms, peaceray, jamaicaneditor, omar_sansi, and jfarman. We'll need input from others.

Program team (running programming proposal process; selections; emails to all submitters; follow-up emails regarding position on schedule; training coordinator; editathon coordinator; academic coordinator; Lightning Talks coordinator): Kevin, BobCummings, Peaceray, Brandon, Richard, Peter, Rosie, Victoria

Communications team (design logo; outreach emails; social media; Meta page; WCNA wiki page/subpages; pre-/post-surveys); includes Peaceray, jamaicaneditor, jfarman, pharos, econterms

Scholarships (running scholarship app process, selections)
Volunteer coordinators (identify roles, seek out volunteers, manage scheduling for them)
Safe space (check registration, liase with WMF, monitor behavior, take complaints - keep small (2-3 highly-trusted members of the community); full time responsibility during the conference; they are the points of contact for the WMF event-ban list)
Awards committee? Is that separate, or part of scholarships? communications? a grants committee?
Fundraising committee - as opportunities present
Games committee:
WikiCommons committee (set up category/subcategories)

See 2021/organizing teams/archive for older/historic notes from this page (April-May 2021)

soft launch occurred ; we will wait to announce in a big way until Wikimania submissions are done circa June 18

Let's make a list of platforms to evaluate and compare for the conference itself:
interpretation, transcription, and translation: otter.ai, ava.me, zoom? google meet/translate?
registration: ti.to, ...
main conference sessions -- our biggest issue. 4 possibilities:
- 1 ti.to
- 2 techchange which rightscon.summit.tc is using, (note .tc=Turks & Caicos, .to is Tonga)
- 3 phill?
- 4 interact.io? used by WMF, suggested by Chen
- Peter to follow up on these
- also check out techchange.org -- Peter to study
for social time: spatial.chat, wonder, hubble, ..., Pharos may be looking at other options
for text messaging: Telegram -- we've settled on that
related services for interpretation/transcription/translation: https://vitac.com/multi-language-captioning/, otter.ai, meet.google

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