TikiFest

A tradition in the TikiWiki community, a TikiFest is when there is a meeting between at least 2 TikiWiki contributors that don't usually meet. This is an opportunity, usually, to drink adult beverages, get some laptops out and code wildly in group sessions and/or discuss about wiki technology and culture, etc. depending the mood and context. It is a great opportunity for Tiki users and Tiki power users to meet some of the developers and learn more stuff

Table of contents

• Upcoming Events (confirmed)
• Upcoming Events (tentative)
• Known past Tikifests
• How to organize
  • Location selection
  • Accommodation
  • Date selection
• Live
  • IRC Chat Log
• Links

Upcoming Events (confirmed)

• TikiFestGSOC2009, 3-4-5 July in London, UK
• Tikifest Workspaces and Social Networking, Friday July 31th to Sunday August 9th (10 days long), in Barcelona, Spain
• TikiFestOrlando 21-22-23-24 October 2009, just before WikiSym 2009, in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Upcoming Events (tentative)

• TikiFestSaoPaulo near FISL 10.0 24-27 June 2009
• TikiFestBuenosAires? before or after Wikimania 2009 (August 25-28, 2009.)
• Tikifest San Antonio/Austin - March 2010. I'd (wikiman) be happy to organize this in conjunction with SXSW (see http://sxsw.com/) for details about SXSW. Would prefer to have it in San Antonio, since Austin's packed during SXSW. But I'm open to suggestions. See UserPagewikiman.

Please also see: Upcoming Events and WikiMatrix calendar of events

If you want to organize a TikiFest, just edit this page!

Known past Tikifests

• Paris, FR - sep 2003 - franck, mose, tomb, djamel, loic
• Munich, DE - october 2003 - redflo, mose
• Dakar, SN - january 2004 - marclaporte, mose, yturgeon
• Paris, FR - 25th january 2004 - mose, lorinc
• Montreal, CA - april 2004 - marclaporte, mose, chealer, lphuberdau, ...
• TikiFest1
• San Dimas, cal, USA - april 2004 - mose, dgd, ggeller
• London, UK - july 2004 - damian, mose, qopi, salfield, olisb
  TikiFestUK
• Skei in Joelster, NO - august 2004 - tomb, mose, ...
  http://old.trollparty.org/Norway2004
• Cheshire, UK - October 18th to 25th 2004 - TikiFest is happening!" href="TikiFestUK2&bl=y" class="wiki ">TikiFestUK2
• Buenos Aires, Argentina 23-24 April 2005 TikiFestArgentina
• trollparty project in Caracas (Venezuela) during the World Social Forum 24th to 28th january 2006.
• RoCoCo / RecentChangesCamp Montreal, Canada: May 2007 not exactly a TikiFest but a lot of Tikiers were present.
• Pre-Tiki 1.9.8 in Montréal, Canada: 9-10 June 2007
• January 22nd 2008, Ottawa, Canada
• February 12th 2008, Toronto, Canada
• Blitzweekend March 1-2 2008, Montréal, Canada (1.10 Beta released)
• codeFest phpQuébec 2.1 May 16th-18th 2008, Montréal, Canada
• TikiFestRaleigh June 6-7-8th, 2008
• TikiFestBoston June 9, 10th, 11th or 12th 2008 (around the Enterprise 2.0 conference)
• TikiFestStrasbourg July 9-10-11-12-13 2008, in Strasbourg, France (near Germany)
• TikiFestMontreal August 16-17-18-19th 2008 Saturday-Sunday-Monday-Tuesday with focus on User Interface
• TikiFestPorto September 5-6-7 2008, Porto, Portugal, just before WikiSym
• TikiFestParis September 13th 2008
• TikiFestWashingtonDC September 20-21 2008 (Saturday & Sunday)
• TikiFestMontrealNov2008 November 12-13-14-15-16 2008 focused on Design, Look & Feel and Branding+Marketing
• TikiFestLondonNov08 November 26th 2008 in London, UK
• TikiFestParis2008 Nov 29 to Dec 02 2008, focused on Cross Lingual Wiki and TikiTests.
• TikiFestBrussels, on February 9th 2009, just after FOSDEM 2009
• TikiFestMadrid, Feb 15-16-17 2009, before RecentChangesCamp 2009 (RCC) Feb 20-21 in Portland, USA
• TikiFestMontreal2009 February 27-28th and 1-2-3 March 2009 (in conjunction with the PHP Québec conference) where we'll work on Tiki 3.0 and plan 4.0. Please see: Roadmap.
• TikiFestUK 24-25-26 April 2009
• TikiFestCodeFest3 1-2-3 May in Montreal, Canada
• TikiFestOttawa2009 8-9-10-11 May in Ottawa, Canada before JIAMCATT (13-14-15 May)
• TikiFestQuebec2009 12-13-14 June in Québec City, Quebec, Canada

Check out the CommunityWorldmap to see who lives near you. (add yourself to the Map!)

How to organize

• Pick a date/location as soon as possible, ideally several months ahead of time, so everyone can organize logistics (plane tickets, check passports validity, etc.

Location selection

• Wi-fi is essential

Accommodation

Ideally, a house is rented for people that are from out of town

Date selection

In general, we try to have TikiFests just before or after related events. So people can travel and participate to the 2 events. It's also good to plan these dates a long time ahead. There can be other synergies as well.

Weekdays or Week-ends?
If it's a long TikiFest, it could be good to span both. So more people can participate, at least partially.

Advantages of TikiFest before the other event

• We get to know each other better.
• We arrive energized at the other event and fully ready to answer any questions about Tiki.

Advantages of TikiFest after the other event

• We can invite interested people to stay a few extra days and fest with us

When date is picked, it should be added to this wiki page, to Facebook, Upcoming and of course, the Tiki Event calendar

Live

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