Meetups
Meetups are meetings that are self-organized by delegates and groups with a common interest. They can happen at any time during the conference or preconference, mainly in bars and open spaces or near the Community Village. Below are specific locations and times designated for meetups in the main conference Program. Rooms are booked on a first come, first served basis.
Room details
The venue website meeting rooms floorplan diagram and room capacity information. For the purposes of Wikimania we are renaming the rooms:
- Montreal
is “VOC North”, maximum capacity 325 - Mexico City
is “VOC South”, maximum capacity 325 - Esino Lario
is “Paarl”, maximum capacity of 60 people - London
is “Constantina”, maximum capacity of 180 people - Hong Kong
is “Stellenbosch”, maximum capacity of 180 people.
All rooms continue to be available after 20:00 into the night.
Private meeting rooms are available upon request to the conference organisers.
Meetups Schedule
Add your meetup below. Don't forget to link to your project page for people to signup or share resources, and don't forget to let the rest of your group know what the time and place is.
Thursday
- 17:00 – 19:00 Public Policy Meetup, Wale room, City Bowl hotel. See Preconference page.
- (Wikimedians in Residence meetup has been moved to Friday)
Friday
Conference day 1, 20 July
Other interesting places to meet (bars, restaurants...) in the nearby vicinity to the hotel are described at The surrounding area.
| Room | Montreal |
Mexico City |
Esino Lario |
London |
Hong Kong |
Community Village | Elsewhere (please stipulate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 – 9:00
Morning |
Disasters meetup | Art As A Knowledge Form Meetup | |||||
| 13:00 – 14:00
Lunchtime |
Wikidata Pink Pony Session | Wikipedia & Education User group | LIGHTNING TALKS | African Meetup | Iberocoop | Wikitongues video interviews - please come speak on camera | |
| 18:00 – 19:00
Evening 1 |
Commons categorizer | WikiLGBT+ meetup | All Power to the People: Access + Equity on Wikipedia with Black Lunch Table |
| |||
| 19:00 – 20:00
Evening 2 |
CEE Meetup | Wikimedia Asia meetup | All Power to the People: Access + Equity on Wikipedia (cont) |
| |||
| 21:30 – late...
Night |
Communications Committee Brand Workshop | Wikidata meetup | Afrikaans Meetup | Bengali Wikimedians Meetup | |||
Saturday
Conference day 2, 21 July
Other interesting places to meet (bars, restaurants...) in the nearby vicinity to the hotel are described at The surrounding area.
- Women in the Wikimedia movement: Conversations with women in Africa is taking place at 17:00 hrs in Washington DC
| Room | Montreal |
Mexico City |
Esino Lario |
London |
Hong Kong |
Community Village | Elsewhere (please stipulate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 – 9:00
Morning |
OTRS agents | ||||||
| 13:00 – 14:00
Lunchtime |
Northern Europe Meeting (Pre WikiNEM) | LIGHTNING TALKS | GLAM Birds of a Feather Lunch | Meet AffCom! | Numismatic corner | Wikimedia Italia Strategy (ground floor) | |
| 17:00 – 18:00
Evening 1 |
Board mingle
Meet the WMF Board of Trustees |
Wiki Arabia Meetup | Wikimania 2019 Meeting | ||||
| 18:00 – 19:00
Evening 2 |
Event organizers meetup |
Lingua Libre meetup | Making Wiki Loves Monuments thrive in Africa | Wikibase Meetup | Communications Meetup | Wiki loves Vegan | |
| 19:00 – late...
Night |
Lingua Libre meetup | How to Promote the Wikipedias of the Austronesian Languages | 19:00-20:00 Wiki Loves Love Meetup | WikiFranca Meetup | 19:00 - 20:00 (Participatory) design Meetup (on the 32nd floor) | ||
Sunday
Conference day 3, 22 July
Other interesting places to meet (bars, restaurants...) in the nearby vicinity to the hotel are described at The surrounding area.
Souther Sun Cape Sun 3204 Room: ESEAP meetup.
| Room | Esino Lario |
London |
Hong Kong |
Community Village | Back of Riempies Restaurant
(Ground Floor) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 – 9:00
Morning |
Esperanto meetup | ||||
| 13:00 – 14:00
Lunchtime |
LIGHTNING TALKS | Commons Meetup: photographers, video makers, and more! | WikiWomen's Lunch | ||
| 18:00 – 18:30
After Jimbo activities |
Real-time editing meetup | Wikisource meetup |