Wikicite/e-scholarship/BamLifa
Project name
[edit]What is a short name for the activity/project you are proposing? Conference Prep for HackoctoberFest 2020
Contact information
[edit]- your name and/or Wikimedia username
- BamLifa
- your contact e-mail
- news.abel
protonmail.com
- your nearest city and country
- ...
Kisangani, CD
Details of team members (optional)
If this application is for a team project, each additional team member (up to 5 total) should have their name/username, project role, location, and contact details here:
ityvesmadika
gmail.com
valentinhonvj1gmail.com
The activity/project
[edit]Tell us about your proposed project. What will you get achieved with this time?
Describe why you think this project is important, and how the project is different from your normal volunteer contributions.
KALI ACADEMY is organizing Hackoctoberfest DRCongo at the end of the month of October 2020. The call for proposal is already launched and we are about to apply. We are planning to do 3 activities:
- a talk on Wikicite in general
- a do-a-thon on Scholia/Wikidata
- a hack-a-thon on Scholia, Citation.js
Note that the main language for the conference is French.
Your qualifications
[edit]Describe how you (and, if applicable, your team) are able to achieve this project. What skills, expertise, and motivation do you have which will enable you to succeed?
We are software engineers and OSS advocates. We organize and/or speak at conferences, hackathons, install-party... We are also community influencers and represent the city in many Wikimedia related conferences or workshops: Wikimania, Wikiconvention francophone, Wikiindaba, East Africa Strategic salon (Wikimedia 2030)... You can learn more about what we do in the links below:
- Salon stratégique Janvier-Février 2020
- Strategy Wikimedia movement
- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiPermanence/Kisangani/2020
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mois_de_la_contribution_francophone_Kisangani/2018/fr
- https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/16400
Proposed activity dates
[edit]When will you undertake this project? (This may be two, three or four days. Not necessarily consecutive). The latest allowable date is 1 May 2021.
Oct 20 - 23, 2020.
Endorsements
[edit]Optional: Community members are encouraged to endorse your proposal and leave a rationale here.
- it would really be a great opportunity for participants to learn more about Wikida (how it works) during this event which is dedicated to free knowledge (open source). --TshiluChris (talk) 17:13, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
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- Status
- closed