History: TikiFestSysAdmin-2014
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Please mind:
- Travel at Thursday 21st of August
- DevOps at the BaseCamp Bonn at Friday 22nd of August, start in the morning
Need booking for accommodation? => torsten@tiki.org
accommodation around 30 € per person per night - Froscon Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th
- Travel home: Sunday 24th or Monday 25th
Questions? => nelson@tiki.org fmg@tiki.org or torsten@tiki.org or +49 (0) 178 8 272 383
The TikiFest has two parts:
A ) DevOps ... the main responsible administrators af the Tiki server accounts (mostly living in or near Germany) should gather with a few project admins, discuss and coordinate strategies for the next two years.
B ) FrOSCon ... the TikiCommunity, especially the DeTUG shall meet and attend the FrOSCon 2014 in Bonn, setup and maintain a Tiki-booth and maybe organise one or two lectures about Tiki.
Schedule
DevOps meeting and workshop
- August 22nd, 2014 in the BaseCamp Bonn, Germany
FrOSCon booth, lectures and party
- August 23rd and 24th, 2014 in the Hochschule Rhein-Sieg in St. Augustin near Bonn, Germany
Related events
- Open Knowledge festival 2014, July 15th - 17th, 2014, Berlin, Germany
- Wikimania 2014, August 6-10, 2014, London / United Kingdom
- German Working Group on Data Retention, technical meeting: August 10-15, 2014
- FrOSCon 2014 August 23/24 or 30/31, 2014 | Sankt Augustin, Germany
- OpenSym + WikiSym 2014, the 10th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration August 27-29, 2014 | Berlin, Germany
- Open World Forum 2014 Paris, Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2014
Further info
- TikiFest in the Rhein-Ruhr-Area of Germany in Bonn August 2014, prior and whilst the FrOSCon 2014 with the option to visit the OpenSym / WikiSym in Berlin in the following week (contact Torsten or Frank if you want assistance or info for OpenSym attending)
- The Friday part of the TikiFest is mainly meant to get a personal meeting of all available System Administrators of the Tiki community servers and sites.
- As most of the Sysadmins are located in or near Germany, this TikiFest will be in Germany.
A parallel general meeting of the German Language Tiki User Group (detug) is optional.
Team Meetings for preparations
Webinar 2014 03 plus a preliminary Team Meeting to rise questions, thoughts, suggestion to be prepared before the initial Webinar
Maybe in tiki.org/live BBB room or meet.jit.si to test WebRTC.
=> a Meeting before end of May is needed!
Preliminary meeting
Besides several bilateral chats and group mails, there was a webinar at Thursday the 6th of March
Participants
Confirmed
| person | arrival | departure | staying at | note |
| amette | Thursday 21st late night | Monday 25th morning | BaseCamp | |
| Torsten | local | local | BaseCamp | |
| Frank | ||||
| Carsten | ||||
| Nelson | Monday 25th morning | BaseCamp | ||
| Jyhem | 20th at Würzburg then travel with Torsten 21st Bonn | Monday 25th | BaseCamp | |
Online
Xavi
Unclear
Changi, Eric, Oliver, Pascal (unlikely), Jorn, Pete J.
Topics for organization
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Date of event - Budget open (Citadelrock offer)
- Sponsoring
- Participants need to be clarified
please update lists above -
Travellinginfo here on the page -
Accomodation<- BaseCamp -
Meeting location<=> accommodation = Hackspace = BaseCamp -
Internet access<- free wireless in the BaseCamp and in the FrOSConplus LTE organised by Frankthe LTE was an option organized by Frank and Michael, but Michael will not be able to attend - other
- spare time activities (forest walking, pubs) <- will have to be aggreed spontaneously, but options are:
a trip to cologne to visit the famous cathedral and go to pubs to drink "Kölsch" until the next morning
a boat cruise on the river rhine <- not really inexpensive
swimming pool nearby the BaseCamp
BBQ every evening apart from Cologne trip and apart from Saturdays party at the FrOSCon
Major topics for DevOps
- Improving show.tiki.org
- Process for updating available versions not defined
- The future of hosting of *.tiki.org sites
- Create a structure
- Blog for sysadmins
- tiki.org emails
- Frank sets up new mail.tiki.org server
- Making Tiki hosting more straightforward for customers
- Cloud-based-friendliness
- Logging of SMTP and logging to pipe
- Standard procedures for server management (currently tiki.org is different than dev.tiki.org)
- complete unification is not realistic or even beneficial
- more communication like SysAdmin-Blog makes more sense
- Monitoring and alerts
- public dashboard to see all services and acknowledgements
- stop-gap-solution: add HTTP checks for all subdomains to a tiki user in icinga
- future: reactivate shinken
- public dashboard to see all services and acknowledgements
- Testing on pre-dogfood servers
- profiles stays on 9LTS
- downgrade edu.t.o to 12LTS
- when theme ready and approved, upgrade info.t.o to 13
- i18n has to be latest always
- info, themes and all minor sites need discussion before upgrades
- release process upgrade cycle: dev, doc, community
Major topics for FrOSCon
- Tiki-Booth
- Beer and Food and Party at Saturday <-> a selforganising system
People
Key people
- Torsten (gardener, community management, organisator)
- Frank (DevOp, community management, organisator)
- Nelson (project admin)
- Changi (DevOp, project admin)
- Amette (DevOp, project admin)
- Eric (DevOp)
- Oliver (DevOp, project admin)
- Pascal (DevOp)
- Jorn (DevOp)
- Jyhem (DevOp, project admin)
Other people
- Pete J. (DevOp?)
- Carsten (Dev)
Interested to attend remotely
- Xavi (DevOp, project admin)
Accommodation
We will stay in the BaseCamp Bonn, Germany for the whole week (or weekend, depending on how long you can stay).
The cost is
27 Euro / night for a twobed sleeper-train compartment or
38 Euro / night, if you prefer not to share, but take the room alone.
Please contact Torsten prior to booking, for coordination, as for example we try to get a few compartments near each other an we already pre-booked for the TikiFestDevOps.
For the DevOps there was a funding suggested by Citadelrock (BaseCamp as TikiHouse), so in this respect it is important aswell, that you contact Torsten prior to booking.
Travel
Airport Cologne-Bonn CGN - mainly for Nelson
The Airport Cologne-Bonn (CGN) is 13km southeast of Cologne and 16km north of Bonn. It has a railway station below the terminal with connection to the regional and to the long distance net of the german railway "Bahn".
The travel center of the Bahn with information desk and ticket shelter is in terminal 2 near the arrival area.
The recommended connection to Bonn city centre:
In front of terminal 1 and 2 (between paking area P1 and P2) you find the bus stops!
Use the Shuttlebus (Schnellbus SB 60) to Bonn/Hauptbahnhof. This line connects the airport with the city centre evry 30 minutes.
Alternative:
Use the railway station below the terminals and get to the line Regionalexpress RE 8 until Bonn Beuel and from there the tram Stadtbahn Linie 62 until Bonn/Hauptbahnhof (main train station).