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 afternoon | 8th Feb noon |
| 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
Conferences held during Fosdem 2018
- Saturday
- is interest in: MySQL: Scaling & High Availability, Elasticsearch (R)Evolution, 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 (topics/activities)
- If not done yet some backports
- Reviewing trunk for regressions (untested commits)
- Crash course: how to solve "small" bugs and track regressions (phpStorm)
- ...
- HAVE FUN !
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)
- …
- 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.)
- …
- add yourself by writing your username one line above
Resources - what's needed | who brings
| what's needed | who brings | |
| Tiki banner | Torsten | |
| beamer | ||
| screen (for video/presentation) | | |
| 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 | |
| Ticket-making machine | Jyhem | |
| Tiki brochures / flyer / leaflets | Jyhem brings 40 black&white from last year and 4colored ones. 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