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The 1st Wiki-Conference New York was held over the weekend of July 25-26, 2009 at New York University, and hosted by Free Culture @ NYU and Wikimedia New York City.
The location for the conference was Vanderbilt Hall, and sponsored by the Information Law Institute at NYU Law, in Greenwich Village. This hall is opposite the southwest corner of Washington Square Park. For a map see [1], where Vanderbilt Hall is marked as number 1.
All participants were encouraged to give their own ideas for topic sessions. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales gave Saturday's keynote, and Ira Brad Matetsky (User:Newyorkbrad) gave Sunday's keynote.