27.1630, Summer Schools: Codefest/Spain

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Subject: 27.1630, Summer Schools: Codefest/Spain

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Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 12:46:42
From: Itziar Gonzalez-Dios [itziar.gonzalezd at ehu.eus]
Subject: Codefest/Spain

 

Codefest/Spain

Host Institution:   
Coordinating Institution: Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU)
Website: http://dss2016.eu/en/dss2016eu/voices/codefest

Dates: 04-Jul-2016 - 08-Jul-2016
Location: Donostia-San Sebastia, Basque Country, Spain

Focus: Codefest summer-lab aims to revitalise resource scarce languages by providing them with effective tools for electronic communication and by teaching their communities how to use them.
Minimum Education Level: No Minimum


Special Qualifications:
Previous knowledge will not be required – having a passion for languages and the yearning to work for them will be the only prerequisites.


Description:
This one-week long hands-on course will give participants the opportunity to
become acquainted with the latest language-based technologies and to develop
different apps based on them. Partakers will work in a multidisciplinary
coding bee that will team up linguists, software-engineers and students.

Codefest will take place from Monday to Friday and will conclude over the
weekend with a Wikipedia edit­a­thon focused on minority languages. All
weekend long we will work on Wikipedia articles about Donostia in as many
languages as possible.

Aims:

- Providing resource­ scarce languages with effective everyday tools for
electronic communication.
- Bringing small languages to the fore as part of the European linguistic
scenery.
- Promoting communal work.
- Connecting international agents.
- Promoting open­ source­ based language technologies and resources.


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Tuition: 40 EUR

Tuition Explanation: - Basic registration (5 day participation, official dinner, welcome bag): 40
€.

- Full registration (5 day participation, accommodation, 6 nights in a double
room, official dinner, welcome bag): 260 €.

- Full + Wikipedia edit a thon (5 day Codefest participation, 1 day Wikipedia
edit a thon, accommodation, 7 nights in a double room , official dinner,
welcome bag): 260 €.


Financial Aid: Applications accepted until 10-May-2016
The Codefest scholarship is used to support students, minority language speakers and highly motivated people to participate in the two-week summer school.

Scholarship application deadline is May 10, 2016, at 11:59pm PDT. This is a very firm deadline, and applications submitted prior to this date will be much appreciated.

Financial Aid Instructions:
The scholarship is in amount of 260 € per person, which covers mandatory registration and housing costs for the full duration of the summer-lab.

Please, if you are interested in a scholarship, include a short (less than one page) statement of interest. The statement might describe your personal interests in one or some of the proposed projects, new proposals, etc.


Registration: 07-Apr-2016 to 10-May-2016

Contact Person: Itziar Gonzalez-Dios
                Email: itziar.gonzalezd at ehu.eus


Registration Instructions:
Registration to attend Codefest is now open. You can register online and you
will receive information about the payment procedure. If you are staying in
Donostia – San Sebastian we will also collect information to arrange your
accommodation.

An application form is available at:
http://dss2016.eu/en/dss2016eu/voices/codefest/sign-up-codefest




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