March 1st & 2nd 2008 in Montreal: TikiWiki BlitzWeekend
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From: Marc Laporte <ma...@marclaporte.com>
Date: Feb 8, 2008 7:42 PM
Subject: TikiWiki CMS/Groupware participates to Blitz Week-end! March
1st & 2nd 2008 in Montreal
Dear friends,
In the "from-concepts-to-code" and "from-standards-to-solutions" series.
What good are concepts & ideas if I can't download something and use
it? (show me the code!)
What good are standards if there is no real-World solution?
After participating to CodeFest 1 & 2, TikiFestOttawa, (and soon
TikiFestToronto), where we worked on OpenID, microformats,
wiki-translation.com, and other projects, I would like us to participate
to "Blitz week-end" (http://blitzweekend.com/) March 1st and 2nd in
Montréal.
This would replace the TikiFest Montreal I wanted to hold in March:
http://tikiwiki.org/TikiFestMontreal
The concept is to "Design, Build, and Launch in one weekend". It will be
great to be amongst several other projects!
What would our project be? I don't know.
We could pick one missing feature and add it:
http://dev.tikiwiki.org/Major+Features+Missing+In+TikiWiki
Or we could say "Hey, TikiWiki already has more features than anything
else. Let's get BRANCH-1-10 out of CVS and release 1.10.0!" Maybe we
could take everyone by surprise and call it 2.0 :-)
Or something else.
For the project, I think this "release now" option is better. But it's
not as sexy as adding new stuff :-) And I am not sure one week-end is
enough to clean-up all the loose ends of over 3 years of development. On
the other hand, many of us use BRANCH-1-10 on production sites and we
know that many parts of it are release-ready. Also, Drupal 6 is in RC3
and Joomla "1.5 Stable" is just out. I would much prefer people compare
Tiki 1.10 to these two than Tiki 1.9.9
A few weeks later, Nelson & I will be at the 2008 Nonprofit Technology
Conference in New Orleans. We'll also be presenting about wikis at
"Penguin Day"
http://www.nten.org/ntc
So we'd have to:
1- Get some groundwork done before the event.
2- Push some stuff to 1.10.1
3- Get a large team on site at the Blitz in Montreal
4- Have even more people online from the TikiWiki community
5- Beyond the code, we are going to need lots of brainpower for
marketing, release notes & documentation. (and testing!!)
What do YOU think? What do you want to work on, which will make you WANT
to wake up early and spend the week-end on this?
You can read more below about the Blitz-weekend from my discussions with
Denis & Heri (our friendly Blitz organizers)
http://blitzweekend.com/
Thanks!!
M ;-)
Denis Canuel wrote:
> This is so great. I really think it's going to be very fun. Thanks for
> "joining" us :)
> -d
>
>
> On Feb 2, 2008 4:52 AM, Marc Laporte <ma...@marclaporte.com> wrote:
>
>> Heri Rakotomalala wrote:
>>
>>> well, marc
>>>
>>> this is great! i like the concept of your event, i think it's very
>>> similar in the sense that we also wanted teams each working on a
>>> project on its own.
>>>
>> Yes, very similar, that I have small teams of 1-2 people per project.
>> It'll be interesting to now pool everyone together in a larger project,
>> part of a larger event.
>>
>>
>>> however, there are some points you should be aware of:
>>>
>>> 1 - our location is at metro longueuil - actually, it's 2 minutes from
>>> the metro @ université de sherbrooke campus.
>>>
>>>
>> great that it's near a Metro
>>
>>
>>
>>> 2 - we would want attendees to be there at 8.00 am and they should
>>> also be there sunday late afternoon, around 5pm, so that everyone so
>>> what everyone else did. apart from that, they are free to go anywhere
>>> they like and use their time.
>>>
>>>
>> Not a problem for me. I hope most will make it on time but experience
>> has shown that many people arrive late.
>>
>>
>>
>>> 3 - we actually need a definitive list of attendees at least 10 days
>>> before the event. it's mainly because of the wifi. the IT depatment of
>>> the university needs names so they can give each user a temporary
>>> account for internet.
>>>
>> ok. Something tells me we'll have a few John Does :-)
>>
>> I'll bring my wi-max but it doesn't always work well indoors in large
>> buildings...
>>
>>
>>
>>> 4 - also you have to understand that there would be also entrepreneurs
>>> during the event and people who would want to setup business plans.
>>> now we don't require people to have an entrepreneur, or a designer in
>>> their team, everyone is free to setup their project in the way they
>>> like. just to say that if actually any of the attendees you were
>>> expecting are looking into working with a guy in business, then it
>>> would be actually be possible
>>>
>> Very interesting!
>>
>> The same way it's good cross pollination to combine various projects in
>> a CodeFest, it's great to mix IT, Marketing, etc
>>
>> I am very interested in Open Source business models and I would love to
>> see some of our local start ups releasing open source code and/or
>> participating to existing Open Source projects.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> other than that, we have sponsors who will provide food, and coffee etc.
>>>
>> Super!
>>
>>
>>> either way, i think it's a great opportunity marc, and i am looking to
>>> do this with you. i liked very much codefest and we think we need more
>>> of those in montreal.
>>>
>> I am very pleased to work with you as well. I was in Vancouver a few
>> months ago and I liked what I saw for the local tech scene. Blitz
>> Week-end is the type of event we need!
>>
>> I will consult my troops and confirm officially.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> M ;-)
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>> / Avantech.net <|> http://avantech.net /
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