The main topic of this event is to improve both Tiki, BigBlueButton and the interaction between the two. ))BigBlueButton(( is an open source real-time collaboration tool. (Audio/Video/Screensharing/Chat), which is built upon several open source components and with a focus on distance education.

Tiki5 offers a built-in integration with ))BigBlueButton((. You can try it out now at: http://live.tikiwiki.org/

When

August 15-16-17-18, 2010 (Official Dates)

We recently got the good news that Tiki has been offered a presentation slot during the SummerCamp Open Source Conference which will be held in Ottawa on August 14th. In order to maximize the synergies of both events, we have moved up the TikiFest by a week.

We hope this does not affect anyones schedules and we can't wait to see everyone live and online for this exciting week in August.

Where

• The Code Factory, Ottawa, Canada
• and online Dogfooding BigBlueButton

Accommodations
For those coming out of town and need a place to stay, Pascal has some guest apartments in his building of residence that can be rented ahead of time. For those who are interested please add you name to this list.

• Cyril Gallant (need car mobilisation to)
• you?

Who

Ottawa

• Pascal St-Jean
• Marc Laporte
• Daniel Gauthier
• Nelson Ko
• Cyril Gallant
• You?

live.tikiwiki.org

• Xavi
• Jonny B
• Youcef Bey
• Gary (chibaguy)
• geoff (eromneg)

What

This will be the first event where the focus will be on remote participants. Let's have a lot of people and push the limits of the system!

Dogfood BBB for Remote Participation To Community Events

http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/RemoteParticipationToCommunityEvents

Integrating BigBlueButton in other systems

If you are interested in integrating BBB in other systems, please do show up. Many BBB developers will be present as well. Also, if your project is in PHP, you can re-use Tiki code (licensed LGPL so include-able in other apps)

dev:BigBlueButton
doc:BigBlueButton

Wine and Cheese

On Wednesday August 18th at 6PM, the Tiki and BigBlueButton community wish to invite web development companies, systems integrators, designers, developers and open source enthusiasts at The Code Factory for a wine and cheese networking event. 

Come learn how Tiki and BigBlueButton are leading the way in the online world of Collaboration and Communication and meet some of the developers that work on these great products. 

Links

http://www.wikimatrix.org/calendar/e110/2010/tikifest_bigbluebutton
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130007310348732
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