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.
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.
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
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 Fosdem2016Fosdem2017 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.
Wikis are essential tools for online collaboration, open knowledge and
free software. They are everywhere: from the mainstream Wikipedia to a
myriad of public, academic and corporate knowledge bases and personal sites.
We would like to present on a common stand a sample of the Wiki ecosystem, and demonstrate different examples of how wikis can expand into highly versatile software which can power whole intranets or online groupwares.
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware (Tiki) is the Free / Libre / Open Source Web Application Platform with the most built-in features. Whatever you can imagine doing in a browser window, chances are Tiki does it.
XWiki : XWiki Enterprise is an Open Source professional wiki with enterprise features such as Blog, strong rights management, LDAP authentication, PDF export, full skining and more. It also includes an advanced Form and scripting engine making it a development environment for data-based applications. It has powerful extensibility features such as scripting in pages, plugins and a highly modular architecture.
Foswiki : Foswiki is a web-based Open Source wiki system and application platform which is used as central knowledge base in companies. Foswiki is used world wide by a wide user base among which are 1&1 Internet Inc, Telekom, Intel, Motorola, Hapag Lloyd, Hewlett Packard and many more.
WikiSuite: The most comprehensive and integrated Free / Libre / Open Source enterprise software suite ever developed.
Why does it fit FOSDEM?
This is a great opportunity for Fosdem attendees to discuss how to choose a community they would like to join or a software they would like to use based on their actual needs.
This is a nice change from stands where only one software is really well-understood and promoted.
Number of tables: 2
Primary contact: Jyhem
Submitter's affinity to the project(s):
I have been a Tiki developper for more than 10 years.
I am a member of the Tiki Admin Group.
I have been Coordinator of last 2 year's "Wikis and CMS" stand with Ludovic.
I have attended many events jointly with other open-source Wikis in Berlin, Strasbourg, Brussels.
I have been Coordinator of the Wikis devroom in Fosdem 2014 together with XWiki and mediawiki. Ludovic was there.
I have been local responsible of RMLL 2011 (Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre) in Strasbourg where I also held a Wikis stand together with the dokuwiki people.
Both contacts and other supporting people have a lot of experience with how things are done at Fosdem. We have attended lots of times and we have jointly been responsible for last 2 year's "Wikis and CMS" stand and also the Wikis devroom during Fosdem 2014, and we have given talks.
Also, last 2 years' stands were very successful for both us and the public and we stayed until Sunday evening to help clean up and fold tables and chairs.
Since there will be 4 projects, we would need 2 tables because we expect to have more piles of varied goodies and more than one presentation screen.
If it is not too much work for the organizers, having 4 chairs instead of 2 would be much appreciated.
Submitted: 2017-10-27
Submission successful
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FOSDEM offers open source and free software projects the opportunity to display their work during the event. At its stand, a project can share information, demo software, sell merchandise, give away goodies, and so on, and personally interact with the visitors.
What we offer
one 180x80cm table, positioned in one of the buildings with developer rooms, for the entire duration of the conference. A second table is possible in a few cases, but the pressure on space means this is becoming increasingly rare and needs strong justification. Joint submissions that share a table between related projects will be favoured in the selection process.
two chairs per table
one power socket type C/E (if you require adapters or additional sockets, please bring them yourself)
fast uplink shared wireless Internet access
To apply, please fill out the form at: https://fosdem.org/stands which contains further information.
By applying for a stand you are making a commitment to have at least two people present at the stand throughout the event and to clean up the immediate area around your stand at the end and take any rubbish to the designated bins.
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.
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Alain Benbassat <alain@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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
After some mails and phone calls, I feel we could make it with the following arrangement:
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.
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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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Resources - what's needed | who brings
what's needed
who brings
Tiki banner
Torsten
beamer
Torsten if coming with car (no car)
screen (for video/presentation)
Torsten if coming with car (no car)
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