Outreach

Our conference is themed around outreach, and the key to good outreach is targeting. We've identified the following communities as ones with heavy overlap with ours:

• Outreach/Digital Collaboration - public page here: Themes/Digital Collaboration
• Outreach/Future of Education - public page here: Themes/Future of Education
• Outreach/Free culture - public page here: Themes/Free Culture
• Outreach/Open data - public page here: Themes/Open Data
• Outreach/Open scholarship - public page here: Themes/Open Scholarship

Tasks

For each community, we must:

• Identify the main areas of activity within that community and their key influencers.
• Research the relevant Wikimedian initiatives and their key influencers.
• Familiarise each community with the others' initiatives using the platform of Wikimania 2014 as a hook.
• Encourage them to collaborate on some activity that activates their communities and spreads awareness of each others’ initiatives and Wikimania 2014.
• Invite them to make a submission for a presentation for Wikimania 2014.
• Aid them in promoting Wikimania 2014 to their followers as the event approaches.
• Write non-wikimedian friendly landing pages (Themes) for each community that explain wikimedia's relevance to that area.

Channels for publicity.

We are running a series of Outreach Hackathons in the months preceding the event.

We would like to produce Project Booklets for the event to help people find out about various projects within wikimedia!