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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Battle of the Wiki-conferences: New conference aside from Wikimania announced

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Atlanta, Georgia – After losing their bid to host Wikimania 2008, Wikimedians from the Atlanta, Georgia bid proposal are now working to host a conference focusing on Wikimedia in the Americas.

Mike Halterman, a student at the University of South Florida and unpaid intern at the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) offices in St. Petersburg, Florida is helping to plan the Conference of the Americas which will be be held at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia on May 15-18, 2008. Several others who helped in the conference's creation include; Andrew Guyton, Dan Rosenthal, Geoff Swanstrom, Hillary Lipko, Jessica Gibson, Matt Britt and Wikinews administrator and contributor, Craig Spurrier.

Click here for the full Wikinews interview.

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