History: TikiFest2008-Toronto

Date

Tuesday February 12nd 2008 11h -> late
The evening will be rolled into the regular Toronto Wiki Tuesdays event.

Location

Rowers Pub, Toronto, Canada and online

Background

"Codefest" or "Tikifest" events generally have the following goals:

1. To raise awareness amongst the broader coder community of selected projects/topics.
2. To increase volunteer participation in these projects and train new coders.
3. To network with users to discuss how to meet real user requirements.
4. To actually code something during the event.

The only difference between a "Codefest" and a "Tikifest" is that the latter is more focused on wikis, while the first could be on more general web content management or Web 2.0.

For example, at the January 08 Codefest held in Montreal, the topics were "Microformats" and "Wiki Translation". For Microformats, a number of CMS added or enhanced support for it, and support for hCalendar was added to TikiWiki. For "Wiki Translation", we had a workshop to define user requirements and the overall plan of the project.

Reports of that event: Montreal Tech Watch - Microformats Montreal Tech Watch - Wiki Translation

Topics

Confirmed topics

• WikiNetNav
• Wiki Translation
• Improve integration between image gallery and wiki pages

Possible topics

• Firefox support

Participants

Confirmed

• Marc Laporte
• Martin Cleaver
• Hisham Aziz
• Nelson Ko
• Derek Wong
• Chris Ilias

Probably

• Michael Pilling

Absent but interested

Potential

• Alvin Chin
• Dexter Lei
• Alain Désilets
• Yan Levasseur
• Louis Philippe Huberdeau
• Morgan Tocker
• Régis Barondeau
• Sébastien Paquet
• Evan Prodromou
• Stéphane Daury
• Dave Eaves
• Majken "Lucy" Connor
• Jason Barnabe
• Other people from SUMO
• Sunir Shah
• Jason Diceman
• Val Cummins
• You?

Schedule (Tentative)

Tuesday February 12th
Day: coding
Evening -> relaxing "chill" evening in a pub with the fine bunch of www.TorontoWikiTuesdays.com

Target audience

• All TikiWiki community members within driving distance of Toronto.
• If you are not yet using TikiWiki but curious/interested as to how it could be a good tool for you, this is a great opportunity to get lots of answers from a bunch of fun people 😊

External links

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7586083710
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/410297

Pre-event blog posts

Martin Cleaver

Pre-event todo

• List on calendars and invite all groups from Montreal & Quebec city (Marc)
• List on calendars and invite all groups from Ottawa (Nelson)
• List on calendars and invite all groups from Toronto (Mike P)
• Using Tiki Maps, identify all Tikiwiki.org users within 500 km of Montreal (Franck) and invite them (Marc)