History: TikiFestStrasbourg2011

A tradition in the Tiki community, a TikiFest is a meeting between Tiki contributors (that usually only meet online). This is an opportunity to socialize, code and demonstrate and discuss wiki technology and culture, etc.

Where

Tikifest Strasbourg 2011 is planned to be held within the premises of the Council of Europe

When

• July 2011, Wednesday 6th - Friday 8th
  • Before RMLL2011 in Strasbourg.
    Shortly after the Tikifest Strasbourg 2011, there is the Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre/Libre Software Meeting RMLL 2011 at Strasbourg, France (9.-14. July 2011) which is Free (Libre) as well as free (of charge). Evenings feature a Libre Arts Festival.
    Everybody who stays for the week-end (9-10) can attend the LSM General Public Days with expos in the nice city center.
    Everybody who stays for the following week (11-14) can attend the conferences (featuring Marc), expos, Install-party, and of course WikiFest.
  • See also Summer 2011 Tiki Tour

Who

Everybody who wishes to attend needs to provide their real name, in order to be allowed entrance in the premises by Security.

Real name matching ID	Arrival	Departure	Lodging arrangements and comments
Pascal Kustner (pkdille)	local	local	-
Jean-Marc Libs (Jyhem)	local	local	Will attend and help organise TikiFest and LSM and WikiFest (sleeping is for the weak 😀 )
Jean-François Bilger (changi)	local	local	-
Torsten Fabricius	5th/6th	afterRMLL	for sure, as the 6th is my birthday 😉
Olaf-Michael Stefanov (omstefanov)	4 July	8 July	(booked at Victoria Garden** 4-8 July. I looked at Jean-Marc Libs' list and about 5 hotels are already booked for 6 & 7 July. can change booking until 24hrs before I arrive) will leave eve of 8th as my birthday on 9th
Stefan Sieferer	?	?	not sure if and when (job)?
Jörn Ott (cdrwhite)	?	?	?
jonny Bradley (jonnyb)	lunchtiime on the 6th	after RMLL	Booked ferry (arrive Dunkirk evening of the 5th) - would like to stay in the TikiHouse and hope to stay (probably at the TikiCamp) for RMLL
Angela Hoffmeyer	5th/6th	latest 10th	?
Frank Gesang	?	?	planned to get there @Stefan Sieferer: Mitfahrgelegenheit? call me at IRC (SiL3NC3)
Emil Ivov Petrov	local	local	lead dev of Jitsi Tiki Suite component
Stéphane Casset (Sept_7)	local	local	-
Carsten Aevermann	?	?	not sure
You?	?	?	?

Needed stuff

• a place
• Bandwidth
• Video projector
• normal conference microphone(s)
• webcam(s)?

Everything above which is striked out is provided by the Council of Europe during opening hours (8:30-20:00) as part of normal conference room equipment. We are checking availability of the rest.

Topics of interest

• Meet with Emil Ivov of Jitsi about Tiki Suite
• web conferencing integrated with Tiki (BigBlueButton)
• improvements in multilingualizing your Tiki-based wiki site
• using tiki to translate (human, MT and hybrid)
• integrating best practices and best features from other open wikis (e.g. FosWiki's Plugin, by Michael Daum using jQuery fluidfont feature)
• DocRevamp and translation - esp. german language depending on attendants
• Synchronisation of Tiki Calendar with external applications via CalDAV and iCal
• The QualityTeam - Discussions for the future
  As the Quality Team was born in Strasbourg it seems like a good opportunity to work out how to continue and improve it.
  Some possible topics may be:
  • Membership - increasing it might help with the backlog
  • Streamlining - do we actually need a proposals branch?
    Doesn't SVN keep track of everything for us anyway?
  • Better tools - e.g. http://code.tiki.org with a "current situation" dashboard of some kind
  • Release cycle - do we need to do a 7.2? If so do we have to create proposals/7.x _and_ then have proposals/8.x (on top of proposals/6.x)?
  • Should be a session where people can attend virtually
  • Any other business?

Provisional program

Wednesday

• General presentation of participants, review of topics of interest and review of the 3 day's program
• web conferencing integrated with Tiki (BigBlueButton). Also, set up video streaming.
• Tiki Suite

Thursday

• improvements in multilingualizing your Tiki-based wiki site
• using tiki to translate (human, MT and hybrid)

Friday

• integrating best practices and best features from other open wikis (e.g. FosWiki's Plugin, by Michael Daum using jQuery fluidfont feature)

Accomodation

Let's take advantage of the work done by the people from Libre Software Meeting (LSM).
Their page concerning accomodation. Online booking is now available for rooms, t-shirts, The Free Software Banquet
There is a nice camping site with free ))WiFi(( quite near the city center.
Camping de la Montage Verte see also LSM page concerning Camping de la Montage Verte.

Jean-Marc's findings
I asked around. Some colleagues have lists of hotels but they mostly seem rather expensive, and I doubt it will be easy to found a room there for the 6th of july. I join the file just for for reference.

There is also the European Youth Centre Strasbourg (EYCS) (no age requirements) which is near Council of Europe and Tram. I'm told it usually has rooms even during parliamentary sessions.
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/youth/eyc/strasbourg_EN.asp?
Prices seem high for single rooms (45€) but they have rooms for 2-3 people (30.50€) : http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/youth/eyc/Holding_activity_2011_en.asp#TopOfPage
It's necessary to take the tram to reach pubs but I know there is a big nice lobby suitable for rest and discussions.

In terms of what could resemble a TikiHouse, there is a hotel that has suites which can accept up to 4 people here: http://www.victoriagarden.com/-Strasbourg-1-2-.html
The Family Suites can host 4 people but again, the 6th of july seems already unavailable for booking online (maybe direct contact could work if they don't put 100% of them available online).

That's the summary of my findings... I'm not sure these findings look better than Torsten's Camping-besides-the-youth-Hostel plan 😊

...

There seems to be a way of renting bikes for 5€/day

Travel

How to come to Strasbourg

by train
The train station is right next to city centre, and everywhere can be reached from there using the tram. Trams drive until 24:30 at night.

by car
Some info: in Strasbourg, having a car is a hindrance, not an advantage. It is difficult to drive around and park. If you come by car, you are likely to leave it parked until you leave again.

by ship
Unlikely.

by plane
The nearest airport is the Strasbourg-Entzheim so-called "International" airport. It is dwarfed by nearby bigger airports : Frankfurt, Basel, Baden-Baden. Lufthansa operates a Frankfurt-Strasbourg shuttle.

Related links

Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre (2011.rmll.info) happen right afterwards.
Some practical information for RMLL is also useful for TikiFest (english translation still partial)