[Themaintainers] Maintainers III: Practice, Policy, and Care, October 6-9 2019

[lee vinsel]

Dear Maintainers List Friends,

We are very excited to announce that our next conference, Maintainers III:
Practice, Policy, and Care <http://themaintainers.org/miii>, will take
place in Washington, D.C. on October 6-9, 2019 at Gallaudet University. We
have been working *very* hard on getting this going the past few months
(omg). And we hope that many of you will consider attending and taking part
in some way, including by proposing a panel, paper, lightning talk, or
alternative presentation in one of the four tracks: Information, Software,
Transportation, and General Maintenance.

I also want to say that we are very excited about and extremely grateful
for our esteemed planning committee:
http://themaintainers.org/miii-planning-committee

I paste the CFP below. Please forward to any list you are on. Also, here's
are announcement Tweet - if you would promote, that would be so excellent
of you: https://twitter.com/The_Maintainers/status/1108722469861507072

Hope to see you there!!

Lee



CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Maintainers III: Practice, Policy, and Care

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Maintainers III: Practice, Policy, and Care

Washington, D.C., United States, October 6-9, 2019

Webpage: http://themaintainers.org/miii

Twitter: @The_Maintainers

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Maintainers III: Practice, Policy, and Care (MIII)
<http://themaintainers.org/miii> is the third in a series of conferences
that celebrates and unpacks the concepts of maintenance, infrastructure,
repair, and the myriad forms of labor and expertise that sustain our
human-built world. MIII will be held in Washington, D.C. from October 6-9,
2019 at the Kellogg Conference Hotel (Gallaudet University).

Goals of Maintainers III:

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   Bring together practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, and activists
   who have deep engagements with maintenance
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   Develop and sustain communities of practice in specialized areas
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   Contribute to a broad public movement around the importance of
   maintenance and maintainers in modern life


Call for Proposals:

Distinct from Maintainers I <http://themaintainers.org/program/> and
Maintainers
II <http://themaintainers.org/maintainers-ii-program/>, MIII will feature 4
maintenance tracks including Information Maintenance, Transportation
Maintenance, Software and Open Source Maintenance and General Maintenance.
Visit the Maintainers III About <http://themaintainers.org/miii> webpage to
read more about the focus of each track.

We welcome a variety of submissions types in all maintenance tracks,
including:

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   Panels that provide diverse perspectives
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   Papers that highlight research findings, policy briefings, or case
   studies
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   Workshops that both engage and allow for thoughtful discussion
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   Lightning Talks, that summarize topics in 5 minutes
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   Alternative Submissions that don’t neatly fit the other descriptions.

You can read more about each submission type and submit your proposal on
the Maintainers III Submit a Proposal
<http://themaintainers.org/miii-submit-proposal> webpage.

Key Dates:

20 March 2019 — Save the Date and Call for Proposals announced

13 May 2019 — Deadline for all proposal submissions

24 June 2019 — Proposal acceptance notifications sent

24 June 2019 — Conference registration opens

13 September 2019 — Early bird registration deadline

6-9th October 2019 — Maintainers III: Practice, Policy, and Care

The MIII Planning Committee will continue to update the website with
resources - for now, check out our Attendee Resources
<http://themaintainers.org/miii-attendee-resources>page for more
information on MIII’s Code of Conduct and Accessibility FAQ. We sincerely
hope you will join us in October 2019 and help to shape the discussion of
Practice, Policy, and Care!

MIII Planning Committee:

Hillel Arnold

Juliana Castro

Tabitha Decker

Don Goodman-Wilson
Shannon  Mattern
Mehdi Medjaoui

Jessica Meyerson
Andy Russell
Raquel Velho

Lee Vinsel
Carole Voulgaris

Chela Scott Weber

Questions?

Contact Andy Russell (andy at themaintainers.org), Lee Vinsel (
lee at themaintainers.org), or Jessica Meyerson (jmeyerson at themaintainers.org).





-- 
Co-Founder
The Maintainers
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