Full Circle Associates

International Symposium on Wikis is coming! Oct 17-18, 2005, San Diego, California, U.S.A., co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2005, in cooperation with ACM SIGWEB

The 2005 International Symposium on Wikis brings together wiki researchers, implementers, and users for the first time. The goal of the symposium is to find a voice for the community. The symposium has a rigorously reviewed research paper track as well as plenty of space for practitioner reports, demonstrations, and discussions. We are honored to announce that Ward Cunningham, the inventor and host of the original WikiWikiWeb, will present the opening keynote talk at WikiSym 2005. Anyone who is involved in using, researching, or developing wikis is invited to WikiSym 2005!

And yes, there will be SpeekGeeking* (another phenomena that is worth exploration and experience!) Alas, I won't be there, but for good reason - it's the wedding weekend of a dear friend.

* Speed Geeking:

"A tongue-in-cheek rip off of the speed dating concept, SpeedGeeking offers a fully immersive, invigorating and hilarious approach to meeting people ... and learning about the cool activist web sites, software tools and crazy ideas that they have been working on. At a SpeedGeek?, one group of participants sets up their laptops to give 5 minute presentations while the rest of the group migrates in a circle around the room to hear these high-speed raps. The result is an obscene amount of fun, all tied up with a good dose of learning about how technology is being used for social change."

[via Seb]