TikiFest Virtual 2021 will be held from June 2 to June 5, and everyone is invited to get together online at tiki.org/live for presentations and discussions.

The open source Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware provides tools for remote collaboration integrated with a wiki, calendar, and database features, among others, so we will be using these in-house tools for the virtual Tikifest.

The Covid-19 pandemic is still impacting travel and other activities around the world. Unfortunately, then, it isn't possible yet to hold a normal in-person TikiFest, to meet and work together in one place for a few days. But with Tiki providing the tools for remote collaboration, we're doing the next-best thing: we're having another virtual TikiFest, following the first one held a year ago.

During the TikiFest, some time slots might have parallel tracks for developers and users (advanced or new) but in any case there will be something for everyone, no matter whether you are a Tiki veteran or are new to Tiki and want to discover how we do things the Tiki way.

Everyone is invited to take part in the Tiki community life and the Tiki project.

Tiki 15 LTS, first released in April 2016, has reached the end of its service life, so is no longer being maintained by the Tiki Community or receiving security fixes or feature updates. Tiki 15 users are urged to upgrade their site to the latest Tiki Long Term Support version. Organizations that for some reason choose to continue using Tiki 15 can seek professional enterprise support from a Tiki consultant.

Hello, folks! We have a Tiki Roundtable Meeting coming up!

Please visit: https://tiki.org/Roundtable-Meeting-2021-04

Add your preferred date/time.
Add your topic(s).
And join us at: https://tiki.org/live.

So far we’ll discuss the Tiki22 status and preparations for the Tiki23 release (in June), and continue with the Tikifest preparations (https://tiki.org/TikiFest-Virtual-2021).

More topics may still be added.

See you!

October 9th is a special date for us, as it marks the completion of another successful year for Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. It was all started in 2002 by Luis Argerich with just a handful of users and with significant community support still off in the future. After years of active development, in 2020, Tiki has had one of the largest Open Source teams in the world. Tiki has been contributed to by some 300 developers, and has thousands of users, many features and configuration options, continuous improvement and industry-wide use for public websites and nonpublic intranets and special applications.

The Tiki Community will join together for a Virtual TikiFest June 2020.
As it has never been done before, for this virtual TikiFest we are trying a kind of new concept — with no traveling involved, there are no constraints regarding locations or timing.

Several tasks, discussions, topics are being organized:

• Profiles Revamp
• Vue.js
• Tiki sites Improvements
• Endangered features
• Web browser accessibility

While some restrictions are being lifted in various countries, the coronavirus pandemic is still a serious threat to public health, and guidelines for the safe and gradual restoration of travel are making it impossible to organize a normal Tikifest where people from all over the world to meet and work together for several days. But, because we often get together online, and we have the Tiki tools to collaborate remotely, the lockdowns won’t stop us from holding a virtual TikiFest.

The dates, topics, agenda, and so on for the online event are being planned now. At our recent Round Table Meeting, Tiki's Profiles feature was brought up as something that needs to be repaired or replaced, so this is on the agenda for sure. Beyond that, please visit TikiFest Virtual 2020 for more information. If you would like to help set the details, please register at Tiki.org if you haven't done so already, and add your ideas to the page. And stay tuned for the announcement of the meeting dates and other details.