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Investigate the idea of a non-WM focused event for Mediawiki users
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Note: Of course, everyone is invited. This is an attempt to focus conversation on a particularly underserved audience.

The idea here is to present the idea at the next SMWCon that perhaps we should spin-off or create new a frequent event where folks using MediaWiki in various organizations and industries could come together to share and learn.

Perhaps it's the future of SMWCon - rebranded with a broader, but related focus.

Perhaps it's a Whole New Thing ™ that lives in addition to SMWCon.

Regardless we should discuss this with the community for feedback and ideas. After (during?) the Fall 2015 SMWCon we should make a decision and move forward.

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@Kghbln, I'd love to chat with you about the idea of approaching this topic at the Fall SMWCon. Perhaps at the next stakeholders meeting on June 5th?

To my experience there have always been more third party participants than WMF related ones - this may be regarded as an understatement - so approaching them on this occasion ... Yes, June 5 we could talk about this.

I would consider EMWCon, happening right now, to be this event.

Agreed. And we're getting a lot done as a result of that See agenda for next MWF meeting.

Close this as resolved, given that EMWCon has become a yearly event, and fairly successful? Or are there other groups of non-Wikimedia-focused MediaWiki users who might be interested in an event?

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Agreed that this task could be closed - which I am boldly doing. If other groups are in need of a focused event, another task could be created specifically for that. But, I think that the spirit of this task is met by EMWCon as a companion to SMWCon. If anybody disagrees, please feel free to reopen :-)

(I guess I could/should have done that with my volunteer hat on rather than my WMF hat on . . .)