Re: [Tiki-devel] [Tikiwiki-users] FrOSCon 2013 (Event in Germany)

[Jean-Marc L. <jea...@gm...>]

Hello,

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Frank Guthausen <
fg-...@da...> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 01:03:01AM +0200, Jean-Marc Libs wrote:
> > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Frank Guthausen <
> > fg-...@da...> wrote:
> > >
> > > We do not have a local Tiki community yet for the organization. The
> idea
> > > was to build a larger community at FrOSCon to assemble the manpower for
> > > a Tikifest later.
> >
> > A TikiFest can be any size but it is quite understandable that
> > organizing a small one does not make much sense if you plan for
> > a bigger one a couple months afterwards.
>
> I do not plan a bigger one, but just one at
> all - at least for the beginning it's one. ;-)
>
> I'm not concerned about the size of TikiFest but about lack
> of experience. What is expected to be organized, what cannot
> be supported remotely. This stuff has to be done.
>

Well, the main thing is to have places to meet and discuss with adequate
internet connectivity.
Everything additional is bonus :-)

Nice to have:
Inexpensive lodging, preferably everybody close or easily reachable.


>
> Actually and right now my local Tiki User Group
> consists of - eh - ah - one Person: myself ;-)
>
> We need at least cheap accomodation and some conference space with
> internet. If we do a small TikiFest, there might be a possibility to
> distribute the participants among some private hosts or in some kind
> of a (Youth) Hostel.  Besides that some events along, just by way of
> variety, might be expected. I cannot organize the latter (but this might
> not be necessary, Duesseldorf is State Capital City with a lot of
> shebang around), but with some support of 'non Tiki people' around it
> could have a chance.
>
> Maybe it'd be a good idea to try and check, whether a small TikiFest is
> possible. I'd suggest the week after FrOSCon, because going there at the
> end of TikiFest... you can imagine by yourself.
>
> So... we're talking about last week in August.
>
> > I'd be glad to pass by and help man a booth. I don't know where the
> banner
> > is, but I have the 2 A3 plastic posters featuring Tiki boxes you can see
> > here badly on the wall :
> > http://photos.jmlibs.name/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=2519&preview
> > I should say "which you could see if they did not reflect light so much"
>
> Apart from the grey/silver laptop, there are three black ones. One is an
> Acer, and the other ones left and right from that seem to be ThinkPads.
> Is this correct? Just for personal interest: how much was the percentage
> of usage of ThinkPads among the participants at last double TikiFest in
> Canada (+/- that time I became owner of one myself)?
>

I haven't collected statistics. The image is the Wiki booth at the LSM
http://2011.rmll.info/?lang=en in 2011 which happened right after TikiFest
Strasbourg 2011 http://tiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=TikiFestStrasbourg2011
More photos are here:
http://photos.jmlibs.name/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=75
I had planned a Wiki booth instead of a tiki booth after some suggestions
of people we met in WikiFest Berlin 2010
So from memory on the right you see Jonny himself with the vintage Tiki
shirt, in the middle local guy called Guy Brand presenting Dokuwiki and on
the right a german guy from Mediawiki. So you see, we also shared a booth
:-)
We discovered later that Joomla had their own booth but too late to invite
them to share.


> About the plastic posters: are there high resolution templates for
> professional printing? One member of the local hackers community has
> got connections to professional printing and experience. He's not in
> the job anymore, but surely he'll organize something for a reasonable
> price. Could this be paid by the TCA funding?
>

I think I took them from here: http://branding.tiki.org/Tools


>
> (BTW: is everyone around here familiar with the term hacker in contrast
> to cracker, which is widely mixed up by US media? Short description: the
> good guys are hackers, the bad guys are crackers.)
>

I believe the tide is turning, more and more of the general public is
confident with "hacker", as I discovered when I noticed there are now
municipality-supported "Hackerspaces".
If the Strasbourg town Hall supports Hackerspaces, you just know it does
not automatically mean "evil".


>
> > > I'm not sure about organizing a Tikifest in
> > > connection (before or later) with FrOSCon 2013.
>
> I'm not sure anymore about being unsure.
>
> > > Any ideas about that? Deadline CfP is in ten days, May 23rd 2013, if
> > > we want to partipate with a booth or project.
>
> We can organize a TikiFest independent from FrOSCon, but related
> in time for those ones who wants to join two or three days earlier.
>
>
> Be aware that this is just an experiment, I do not know yet whether it
> will happen or not, nor whether it will work or not. I need to talk to
> a lot of people off the records to help. But I see a tiny little chance
> to make it happen. I need a lot of support, first from you, the main
> question is: what needs to be done, what is the TikiFest organization
> todo list?
>
>
It's not that hard. The important thing is, that people know in advance so
they can actually make travel arrangements and be there. Then it kind
self-organizes, or ii follows the initial plan (if any). It depends on who
is there :-)

Cheers,
jean-Marc