What

A tradition in the Tiki community, a TikiFest is when there is a meeting between at least two Tiki 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 😊

The majority of the most active contributors to Tiki will be present, with devs from 9 countries: Japan, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, France, Austria, Germany, Israel, USA and of course, many from Canada.

When

Montréal: April 11-12-13-14, 2013
Ottawa: April 16-17-18-19-20-21-22, 2013

These 2 cities are a 2-hour train ride from each other

If you come for a shorter period (ex.: driving from the US), come towards the end, which will be the peak of everyone there. If you are travelling from far (ex.: Israel, Germany or Japan), you should come for two weeks and make that long flight worth it!

Where

Montréal, Québec, Canada and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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If you are flying, you'll likely find that flights to Ottawa are more expensive, so just fly to Montréal and it's an inexpensive bus or train ride from Montréal to Ottawa.

What to do for fun in Montreal and Ottawa/Gatineau

If you are from out of town and are planning to do some touristy things in Montreal or Ottawa, here is some info.

Montreal is a very fun and safe city with a vibrant nightlife and an excellent cultural scene. There will be plenty of folks there to help you find something fun to do.

Ottawa is a much more "sleepy" little town, but the planned site for TikiFest Ottawa is right at the edge of Gatineau Park, a great natural place. If you are into hiking, Alain will be happy to take you into its rolling hills for a nice walk (http://tinyurl.com/cdge6nj... bring good boots as it will likely be muddy). We might also have dinner one night at Château Montebello (http://tinyurl.com/d7td7s6). Bring a bathing suit if you want to use their really nice pool (http://tinyurl.com/ctm8hb4)

Hiking in Ottawa

People that would be interested in being shown around by Alain:

• I'm coming in my hiking boots, so challenge me! 😉
• I'm interested. When is the "Hiking day" ?
  • Nothing too challenging I am afraid. This is the Gatineau Hills not the Rockies 😉 — Alain
• I'll have my hiking boots. I'd love to take the opportunity to grab a couple geocaches which sem to abound. Is this one into the Park you speak of?
  • Awesome - never GeoCached before, so this sounds like a good opportunity!

Main Topics

Team-related

All Teams

• Review Teams
  • Status of each team
  • Key people to move things forward

Release

The plan is here: https://dev.tiki.org/Tiki11#Release_plan

Consulting

• How to run a Tiki-based consulting business? (Marc & Alain)

Profiles

• Profiles Team (Greg W, LP and Pascal)

Dev process & Components

• Allura (Jyhem)

Quality code.tiki.org

• Quality Team (Nelson & LP)
  • code.tiki.org will be improved (if not already good enough before the TikiFest)

Infrastructure

• Monitoring Jyhem, Eric, Marc & Amette
• Backups Nelson, Amette, etc.

Security

• Review Security Dashboard (Peter, Philippe G, LP, Jyhem, Eric and Nelson)

Finance and Fundraising

• Finance Team and Fundraising Team (Nelson, Lindon and Marc)

i18n

• i18n Team (Olaf, Alain & Marc) and hopefully also Bernard and Jean-Marc
• and hopefully, maybe by remote, Leu, as Site Gardener for i18n.t.o
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Milkshake

Community

Local Tiki User Groups

• Tiki Local User Groups (Pascal, Marc and Olaf)
  • Setup tiki.org for nicer registration and to better manage local user groups -> tiki.org Teams and Social Networking Dogfood
  • Launch Ottawa local user group

Feature-related

User Trackers

• Revamp interface & potentially merge some thing (LP & Jonny, Marc, etc.)

Maps & CartoGraf

• Clean-up all legacy map stuff (Nelson & Jonny)

tiki.org Dogfood, Social Networking and Workspaces

• Areas Perspective Multi-domain dogfood
• tiki.org Teams and Social Networking Dogfood

Kaltura and tv.tiki.org

• Video Editor
• tv.tiki.org (Daniel, Pascal, Marc, Jonny)
  • Let's move to the HTML5 player!
  • And fix bugs: Kaltura
  • Test with devices. Heidi will bring: Nexus 7, Playbook, Dell Tablet, Blackberry Z10 and probably iPad 2

Spam and abuse

• Spam protection (Marc, Peter, amette, Jyhem, Eric, Alain)
  • How to approve registrations on tiki.org
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha

WYSIWYG

• CKEditor4 & Roadmap (Jonny, Nelson, Bernard)

File Gallery

• File Gallery Revamp & elFinder discussion (Jonny, LP, Marc, Alain)
• olaf-michael (interested also primarily on how to use to best replace some of the traditional functions of images).

Endangered features

• Removing some Endangered features is a tradition! (Jonny and all)

Other

JavaScript development workflow

and related topics (Node.js, Yeoman, grunt, bower, CouchDB, Susy, Bootstrap, etc.) Robin Millette This session is postponed to Ottawa

Dev tools

• 10 reasons I love PhpStorm for working on Tiki (Jonny - will try my best to get it down to only 10 things.. 😉.)
  Dev page here
• More?

Other topics of interest to the attendees

• Fautore Message Broker — Steve Cichosz
  • Why
  • How

Logistics

Venues

Ottawa

• Most of the event will happen at Alain Désilets's house in Gatineau (just next to Ottawa) like the original TikiFestOttawa in 2008.
  • There will be one day at the BigBlueButton offices in Ottawa to work with the folks of BigBlueButton

Accommodation

• We have free places to sleep for everyone both in Montréal and Ottawa at their community member's houses
  • Alain can accommodate 5 people in his home where the TikiFest Ottawa will take place.
  • amette claims about 2.25x1m for sleeping purposes, brings mattress and sheet

Transportation

Airport

There goes STM shuttle bus 747 from the Trudeau Airport to City Center and back. It has Wi-Fi onboard! 😯 Ticket is $9 CAD, valid for 24hrs. You can use it for Metro too.

• http://www.stm.info/english/info/a-747.htm
• http://www.stm.info/English/bus/planibus/747.pdf

Train Montreal-Ottawa & back (http://www.viarail.ca/)

Having checked possibilities of attending both the Montreal and Ottawa portions of the meeting, and using the train to travel one or both ways between these cities, there's a rather serious problem for anyone flying in to Canada from greater distances: Canadian baggage restrictions.

Most airlines allow passengers to check in one (1) bag weighing 23 Kg. Canadian passenger trains allow only one (1) bag weighing 18 Kg. For bags weighing above that, but under 22.67 Kg there is a Can$20 one-way surcharge. And bags over 22.67 Kg cannot be taken along at all!

Given costs of e.g. Can$37 Montreal-Ottawa Monday, 15 April, and Can$33 Ottawa-Montreal Wednesday, 23 April, (as of 4 March 2013; nonrefundable online booking rate), the baggage surcharge practically doubles the cost of these train rides.

For anyone deciding to fly in and out of Toronto, the rates are Can$83 Toronto to Ottawa (15 April) and Can$45 back to Toronto (23 April), again as of 4 March; same rate.

Bus

What about bus ? Is it anything better ?
Online prices one way ride Montreal (e) to Ottawa range from $19 CAD to $34. For passengers travelling on Greyhound schedules, one (1) piece of baggage will be free for each adult and child. One (1) additional piece of baggage can be accepted for a charge of $15.00 for adults only. One (1) small bag, up to 25 pounds, plus one personal item (purse, handbag, etc) can be taken aboard for each adult or child. Carry one bags must fit in the overhead compartment or under the seat. The "no charge" allowance for baggage is restricted to 23 kilograms (50 pounds) per bag. Baggage exceeding fifty (50) pounds per bag will be subject to overweight baggage charges. Baggage over 32 kilograms (70 pounds) per bag will not be accepted.

• For tickets see http://www.greyhound.ca/
• For baggage allowance see https://www.greyhound.ca/en/ticketsandtravel/baggageinformation.aspx

When you pay on boarding the bus at the Trudeau airport bus stop (bus stop number 7), you will pay 35 CAD + (some fu*kin') taxes which makes it $41.75 total for one-way ride ticket.

Car

Ottawa to Montréal with Marc

• Marc will drive to Montréal on Monday April 22nd around 7pm
• Can take 3-4 people, depending on bags
  • Jyhem: I'm interested if you can take me to the airport
  • I am interested if you can take me back and/or to airport —
  • Jonny

Ottawa to Montréal with Bernard

• On Sunday 21st, later in the evening (or could be very early the next morning)

Ottawa to Montréal with André

• On Tuesday
  • Olaf

Ottawa to Montréal via train/bus

• Amette already has train ticket

Ottawa arrivals

For folks planning to attend the final weekend in Ottawa and are arriving directly at Ottawa airport, please add your flight arrival info to see if we can coordinate transportation.

• Rick — Arriving YOW on Fri, Apr 19 at 1:53pm (United #UA6084). Now official hates United. 😑 After cancellations and re-routing, now arriving YOW on Air Canada #AC109 at 5:02pm. Anyone around at that time wants to pick me up? I'll buy you beer...
  Departing YOW on Mon, Apr 22 at 2:28pm (United #UA6089)
  Let's find a ride or share a cab... 😊
• Lindon — Arriving YOW on Fri, Apr 19 at 9:46am (Air Canada #AC7731).
  Departing YOW on Tue, Apr 23 at 1:45pm (Air Canada #AC7732)

Who

Confirmed

• Pascal St-Jean (all days in Ottawa)
• Alain Désilets (all days)
• Nelson Ko (all days in Ottawa up to Saturday)
• Marc Laporte (all days)
• Duane Kennedy (most days in Ottawa)
• amette (all days)
• Pablo (some days, both in Montréal in Ottawa)
• Louis-Philippe Huberdeau (most days, both in Montréal in Ottawa)
• Bernard Sfez (all days)
• Claude C. (some days in Ottawa) He is local and will just pop-up
• Daniel - Filming in Ottawa April 20th (1/2 a day - pm) Likely won't sleep there
• Régis Barondeau (one day in Ottawa for Mindmaps) Likely won't sleep there
• JonnyB (all days), arrives (1 day earlier) Tuesday, April 9th 2013
• luci (last days in Ottawa), arrives on Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 20:20 at MTL (Trudeau INTL) airport, then needs to figure out his way to Ottawa
• Gary (chibaguy) (all days)
• Jyhem (all days), arrives Wednesday 10 April 2013 - 15:15 at MTL airport
• Eric Beaurivage (almost all days)
• Rick Sapir (ricks99): Arrives Friday, Apr 19 at 1:53pm in YOW (Ottawa); departs Mon, Apr 22 at 2:23pm in YOW
• Olaf-Michael Stefanov (omstefanov) (all days - flight details to follow)
• Lindon - arrives at YOW airport Friday, April 19, 9:46am; departs Tue, Apr 23, 1:45pm from YOW
• Benoit Desjardins (One day in Montréal)
• Steve Cichosz (Ottawa April 18-21, has rented car and own hotel)
• Kenlo (One day in Montréal)

Waiting for feedback

Can't make it

Remote participants

This week is the April 2013 Webinar, so there will be at least that session.

We may also broadcast the whole TikiFest, depending on Internet connection and flow of the event...

BBB

On http://tiki.org/Live (As usual for Tiki web meetings and Webinars)

IRC

http://irc.tiki.org

Event organization todo

Ottawa

• Setup projection space for large group (move desk, test with chairs)
• Get Banner Stand in Ottawa for photo ops (Pascal)

General

• Using Tiki Maps, identify all Tiki.org users within 500 km of Ottawa and Montréal and invite them
• All users in Canada Only Map
• Dogfood PluginTrackerCalendar for the TikiFest: Tracker_as_Calendar_10

Related links

• Previous TikiFests in Ottawa
  • 2008: TikiFestOttawa
  • 2009: TikiFestOttawa2009
• https://www.facebook.com/events/512977095414525/
• http://www.wikimatrix.org/calendar/e186/2013/tikifest_montreal
• http://www.wikimatrix.org/calendar/e187/2013/tikifest_ottawa
• http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Twoweek-Canadian-Spring-TikiFest-118987.S.222857852
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c1a4g3lkrjmt0b5o3audaa10f44
• http://info.tiki.org/tiki-calendar_edit_item.php?viewcalitemId=114
• http://info.tiki.org/tiki-calendar_edit_item.php?viewcalitemId=115

• TikiFestOttawa11