History: TikiFestFosdem2018
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https://fosdem.org/
«FOSDEM is a free event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate.
It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world.»
Jyhem has attended for 5 years in a row and confirms that it's huge, it's chaotic, it's fun, and well worth attending.
Most of everything is in English.
Table of contents
When
In Brussels:
FOSDEM 3 (from 9:30 to 19:00) & 4 February (from 9:00 to 18:00) 2018
TikiFest 5, 6 & 7 February 2018
Accommodation is being organised (thanks Jonny!) from friday 2nd, afternoon to thursday 8th, morning (morning check out). That's 6 nights.
Where
FOSDEM will take place at the ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium, Europe, Earth.
https://fosdem.org/2018/practical/transportation/
TikiHouse
An airbnb for us Tiki people is booked from the Friday 2nd to Thursday 8th for 5 people... a few more can be fitted in for extra cost, so if there are enough people we'll been TikiHouse2 to be organised.
Meanwhile, those confirmed in the TikiHouse are:
| Who | Arriving | Departing |
| jonny B | Feb 2nd, lunchtime approx | 8th Feb after lunch |
| Jyhem | Feb 2nd, early evening | 8th Feb lunchtime |
| Amette | Feb 2nd, lunchtime approx | 8th Feb evening |
| Bsfez | Feb 2nd, early morning | 8th Feb morning |
| Torsten Fabricius | Feb 2nd | 8th Feb after lunch |
| Frank Guthausen | Feb 2nd | 8th Feb morning |
| You? |
The TikiHouse is just south of the park next to the university, approximately here, contact me or anyone else staying for the exact address
What
At the stand
Based on Brussels timezone (crossing fingers) 😊
Stand Shift for Saturday 3/02/2018
Stand Shift for Sunday 4/02/2018
Conferences held during Fosdem 2018
- Saturday
- is interest in: MySQL: Scaling & High Availability, Elasticsearch (R)Evolution, FFmpeg, video - more than just a HTML5 tag, Performance Analysis and Troubleshooting Methodologies for Databases, Tomorrow's JavaScript Debugger, Why People Don't Contribute To Your Open Source Project, Cooperative Communities, A Bug in Your Ear, Technical Writing for Non-Writers, What community can learn from marketing...
- Sunday
- is interest in: ... to come
Joint stand application together with wikis-oriented communities
XWiki, DokuWiki and Foswiki
The Tiki community would like to send a joint application for a booth together with other wikis-oriented communities, like we did very successfully last year and the year before Fosdem2016 Fosdem2017 with the Xwiki community and the DokuWiki community.
The reasons are:
- it is important and it is required to have at least 2 people on the booth. We plan to be about 6 but there are a lot of conferences and booths we want to see, too.
- There is a lot of competition for booths so a joint application has more chances of being accepted.
- The more, the merrier. After all, we also travel to Brussels in order to meet people.
Current status
Jean-Marc Libs (Jyhem) has contacted the XWiki, the DokuWiki and the MediaWiki communities.
Anyone else I should contact?
Who is participating
Lists of participants are below under the Who section.
Tiki community
We need to have 2 people on the stand at all times, which means 6 attendees.
XWiki (confirmed)
Responded favorably 😊
Foswiki (confirmed)
Have been contacted: Michael Daum. Answered YES 😊
Foswiki have their own page : https://foswiki.org/Community/Fosdem2018
DokuWiki
Have been contacted:
- Michael Hamann
- Dominik Eckelmann
Application (success!)
[+]Stand organisation
Since we are 4 projects and there is only one table (!) and CiviCRM have one table beside ours, we are currently discussing how we could share space in a way everybody likes.
Thank you Alasdair for accepting the CiviCRM booth at FOSDEM.
@Jean-Marc: we need two chairs and space for a laptop with external monitor. Behind us we will have one roll-up banner. As you know, that will take up most of the space of our booth. Nevertheless, I guess with respect for each other's project and some common sense, we will find a win-win solution.
Can you discuss this with your wiki colleagues? Then we can Skype about it.
@Alasdair: is an extra table possible?
Kind regards,
Alain
- The « Wikis oriented communities » table would have Xwiki, Tiki and Wikisuite together.
- The «CiviCRM» would share some room for Foswiki. Probably 1/3, but details to be defined when stands are set up on saturday morning.
Also, we will need to find extra chairs.
TikiFest Planning
...More to come
Who
People confirmed
- Jyhem (the organizer) (Tiki)
- Michael Daum (Foswiki)
- Philippe Back (Tiki)
- Jonny Bradley (Tiki)
- amette (Tiki)
- Torsten Fabricius (Tiki)
- Frank Guthausen (Tiki) <-confirmed!
- Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist (Tiki)
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- add yourself by writing your username one line above
People interested
- luci (Tiki)
- Roberto (Tiki) (Most probably not. Grounded in Portugal till feb. 23 at least, unless immigration services here get reorganized before that.)
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- add yourself by writing your username one line above
Resources - what's needed | who brings
| what's needed | who brings | |
| Tiki banner | Torsten | |
| beamer | Torsten if coming with car (no idea yet) | |
| screen (for video/presentation) | Torsten if coming with car (no idea yet) | |
| Tiki-shirts rest | Jyhem 40 t-shirts leftovers from last year (mostly big sizes, no M) | |
| new Tiki-shirts M sized | avantech paid and sent to Barbara's place | |
| 100 new Tiki tote bags | avantech paid and sent to Barbara's place | |
| 2 A3 plastic posters | Jyhem | |
| Tiki brochures / flyer / leaflets | Jyhem brings 40 black&white from last year. Does anyone remember how many we printed last year? If it was 100, we don't need to print more… | |
| A pdf presentation for laptops on the stand? | ||
Related events
- https://recon.cx January 29th to February 4th 2018 Brussels, Belgium