History: TikiFest2017-Brussels-Fosdem
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Table of contents
https://fosdem.org/
«FOSDEM is a free event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate.
It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world.»
Jyhem has attended for 4 years in a row and confirms that it's huge, it's chaotic, it's fun, and well worth attending.
Most of everything is in english.
Last year's Fosdem: TikiFestFosdem2016
When
In Brussels / 4 & 5 February 2017
Where
FOSDEM will take place at the ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium, Europe, Earth.
https://fosdem.org/2017/practical/transportation/
What
Joint stand application together with wikis-oriented communities (accepted)
XWiki and DokuWiki
The Tiki community would like to send a joint application for a booth together with other wikis-oriented communities, like we did very successfully last year for Fosdem2016 with the Xwiki community and the DokuWiki community.
The reasons are:
- it is important and it is required to have at least 2 people on the booth. We plan to be about 6 but there are a lot of conferences and booths we want to see, too.
- There is a lot of competition for booths so a joint application has more chances of being accepted.
- The more, the merrier. After all, we also travel to Brussels in order to meet people.
Current status (accepted)
Jean-Marc Libs (Jyhem) has contacted the XWiki, the DokuWiki and the mediawiki communities.
Who is participating
Tiki community
Committed
We need to have 2 people on the stand at al times.
Tiki community participants register below for both the stand and the TikiFest, under the Who section.
XWiki
Have been contacted: Ludovic Dubost, Vincent Massol, marketing
Coming:
- Anca Luca
- Eduard Moraru
- Caleb (if talk accepted)
- Aaron (if talk accepted)
DokuWiki
[+]Application was sent
[+]Application accepted nov, 25
[+]Reminder of what having a stand implies
As a reminder, this is what the Fosdem site says (https://fosdem.org/2017/news/2016-07-20-call-for-participation/), the deadline is Oct. 31st:
Stands
FOSDEM offers open source and free software projects the opportunity to display their work during the event. At its stand, a project can share information, demo software, sell merchandise, give away goodies, and so on, and personally interact with the visitors.
What we offer
one 180x80cm table, positioned in one of the buildings with developer rooms, for the entire duration of the conference. A second table is possible in a few cases, but the pressure on space means this is becoming increasingly rare and needs strong justification. Joint submissions that share a table between related projects will be favoured in the selection process.
two chairs per table
one power socket type C/E (if you require adapters or additional sockets, please bring them yourself)
fast uplink shared wireless Internet access
To apply, please fill out the form at: https://fosdem.org/stands which contains further information.
Questions or remarks? Contact us at stands at fosdem.org.
Key dates
31 October
deadline for stand proposals
14 November
accepted stands announced
Tikifest after the event
We need some place with Wifi & electricity.
Fosdem
See schedule: https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/
Party
There is usually a FOSDEM-organized big Beer event on friday night before the event but it's totally overrated (unless you came alone, you know nobody and you like being crammed with total strangers with no intention of finding your friends). So we should come up with some better plan 😀
Saturday night is usually spent in center-town bars together with people's own, or friendly open-sources projects 😊
More ideas welcome ...
Who
People confirmed
- Jyhem (the organizer)
- Nelson
- Torsten
- Gezza
- Jonny
- Anca Luca (XWiki)
- Eduard Moraru (XWiki)
- …
- add yourself by writing your username one line above
People interested
- luci
- …
* add yourself by writing your username one line above
Ressources - what's needed | who brings
| what's needed | who brings |
| Tiki display | Torsten |
| beamer | Torsten |
| beer for a starter | Torsten (approx. 30 cans from 2016) |
| screen (for video/presentation) | Torsten if coming with car (likely) |
| Tiki-shirts rest | Torsten (only few left after Budapest (TikiFestHu2016) |
| Tiki-shirts new | |
| Tiki brochures / flyer / leaflets | |
| XWiki stuff | |
Ressources - to buy / to order
| what's needed | who pays |
| Tiki-shirts new | |
How
How to get there, etc.
See: https://fosdem.org/2017/practical/
The event is Free and free. 😊
Communication
- Phone and internet: http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.com/wiki/Belgium
- recommended by Frank: http://www.alditalk.be/ similar to product in Germany
Transportation
See https://fosdem.org/2017/practical/transportation/
Accomodation
Issues/Questions
=> Would the 2 or 3 projects like to share accommodation or stay independantly, meeting only at the ULB?
=> We need an organiser for that.
=> What are the personal budgets and time to stay?
=> AirBnB like last year?