History: 20090516workshop

On May 16th, 2009 near Ottawa, Canada, a Tiki workshop was held.

We had 30-35 participants.

Lessons learned

• When users pick their preferred languages later on, it makes it difficult for people to follow.
  • The trainer will tell people to turn on feature X, but it has a different name (and possibly location) in another language.
• Collaborative profile was helpful to get started but too crowded for beginners
  • General File Gallery and General forum inclusions are not working as of now
• All advanced features (like staging & approval) should be off
• We should have Workshop profile which is optimized for teaching/presenting Tiki.
  • Should use profiles with self register but no validation (otherwise, people take time going to check their email).
• Very difficult to cope with the various skill levels.
  • Presenter should not be helping individuals that are stuck. Roaming helpers
• On one hand, it's great that each participant build their own Tiki so they can do things like change logo, change title, play with admin panels. OTOH, it's great that everyone participates on one Tiki because they get to collaborate
• Large groups need to be divided into subgroups for complex tasks like installation. Five people could probably do it in half an hour, while the whole group takes multiple hours and it discourages them.
• Do not have 35 people install 35 Tikis at the same time (4900 queries x 35 = 171 500 queries)
• Have a profile-course which lets people go at their own rhythm, and thus advanced users could just go further.
  • When advanced users have finished a section, they can be asked to help their fellow students (learning by teaching)
• Some users don't want to learn to install. Perhaps advanced users should install twice (once for them and once for other user)