Program

The Skillshare conference is designed to enhance the exchange between Lüneburg, the city hosting the event, and web projects devoted to the free knowledge movement and institutions of the educational sector.

The Lüneburg Project

The Lüneburg part of the project focuses on Lüneburge the Hanseatic city and host of our conference. In subprojects developing around the Skillshare concept, we want to create and improve Wikipedia articles dealing with Lüneburg. Work will go into Lüneburg-related texts and their illustrations. We are here cooperating with the city’s council, the churches, museums and archives under the patronage of mayor Mädge.

The Education Project

Several institutions of the educational sector have joined us with individual projects – among them: The Leuphana University of Lüneburg, whose president Prof. Dr. Sascha Spoun who will act as one the conference’s patrons. Lüneburg’s Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule will offer its media facilities for a media competence session directed at senior pupils. Ralph Caspers, anchorman of the tv-program "Wissen macht Ah!", has agreed to mentor this project.

The free knowlegde project

We plan to invite Edelgard Bulmahn (MdB) -- the former German minister of education who initiated the government’s Open Content group -- to enter the group official patrons. Participants who offer their free time in Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikisource, and Wikimedia Commons will widen their horizons in workshops and training
courses with the help of experts we hope to* provide provide* and with the help of experts from abroad we could invite. A number of workshops dealing with open content are being planned at the moment, including a workshop on how to work with modern databases when writing or improving an article. A course on ethics will deal with the special question of how to handle living persons in our articles; other courses will deal with copyright questions or with the latest techniques in photo editing.

Events

* Photo Rally: Lüneburg in 500 pictures

* City Tour

* bots for beginners and experts

* Create your Monobook

* Tools, Tools, Tools

* Conflict Management

* Photo Editing

* The Ethics of Articles on Living Persons

* Writer’s Workshop

* Wikisource

* Digitization

* Copyright

* Encryption

* Press relations – journalists using Wikipedia information

* Checking dates: personal data, revising articles, the sighting of articles