TWiki Community Summit, 2008-09-04/05

Introduction

Following on the TWiki Community Rome Summit in August, 2007, and the second TWiki Community Summit Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, California, we now invite the TWiki development community and TWiki contributors and users that wish to have influence on the future of TWiki.

The 3rd summit is held in Berlin, Germany. The date set by popular vote is 04-05 Sep 2008.

Motorola Berlin has accepted to make a small and a large meeting room available to us the two days.

Logistics

• Previous summit: TWikiCommunitySummit2008Q1
• Next summit: not planned yet
• Location: At Motorola in Berlin, Germany
  • Motorola in Berlin is in the Tegel area with good hotels near by and right next to restaurants and the underground train station. An excellent location and very nice part of the city.

• Date: 4th and 5th Sep 2008

How to get there

• Motorola Directions (PDF): http://www.motorola.com/mot/doc/0/446_MotDoc.pdf
• Air Berlin (cheapish flights within Europe)
• Berlin Public Transport Journey Planner in English

Hotels

• Hotel Am Borsigturm - Is within walking distance. Address: Berlin, Am Borsigturm 1, Germany (see Google Maps)
• Discounted rates are available when you are a guest of Motorola. The rate per night is 95,00 Euro.
• Expired. A block booking for 10 rooms was made. Please call the hotel to reserve your room: +49 30 43036000
• Please make sure, that the reservation is confirmed by the hotel. The list below is only for reference. It is not binding!

IT Infrastructure & Virtual presence

• We have a large meeting room from which KennethLavrsen as a Motorola employee can have intranet access and we will have a small customer room with an outside Internet access.

• There's a possibility that we can put a wireless router in the small room with a range good enough for the large meeting room. But another alternative could be if some of the participants located in Germany have a flat rate 3G data subscription and can run IRC from that.
  • I will have a 3G-connection (with good luck two) that will run through a usb modem. See here: This stick is already available., This stick might be ready then. Does anybody know how to use them to provide access for all participants through a wlan-router? -- MartinSeibert - 05 Aug 2008

• Beamers - to be discussed
  • best would be to have two, one to always have an irc channel up, the other to present stuff
  • KoenMartens can bring can bring one beamer (in case he can make it to Berlin).
  • AdamHyde can bring a beamer
  • OliverKrueger can bring a beamer

• Possibilities for remote attendance - to be discussed
  • at least audio (two-ways) possibly a one-way video feed also (any laptop with a firewire or usb cam could stream that);
  • The audio on the silicon valley summit was quite allright (although there are different opinions on that), maybe we can use that in a more official way again;
  • Phone-based or internet-based? (both have pros and cons)

RSVP

Please indicate whether you are going to attend, and if so: if you would like to stay in the block-booked hotel or whether you will arrange your own hotel.

Who	Yes/No/ Maybe/ Partial/Remote	Hotel	Comments
KennethLavrsen	Yes	Booked	Arriving on the 3rd evening and leaving on the 6th morning
OliverKrueger	Yes	No	My first TWiki summit.
PeterThoeny	Yes	Yes please	Let's strengthen the community and grow the TWiki eco-system
CarloSchulz	Yes - given that there are no urgent projects	no	Let us make this Summit a "Lets not talk just about the new storage" summit.
CrawfordCurrie	Yes	No	I look forward to a more constructive summit than the last one. And to talking about something other than the new storage
TomBarton	Yes	No	Will attend Day 1
MartinSeibert	Yes	Yes	Let's improve TWikis usability. Let's solve political challenges!
MichaelDaum	Yes	Yes	TWiki rocks the house.
KwangErnLiew	Maybe	Yes	It's scheduled in my agenda.
MayerEugen	Yes	maybe
AdamHyde	Yes	No	Can we have a schedule. This will help it be more constructive
OlivierRaginel	Yes	Yes please, if it's not too late	Details on the agenda, like start time, what's on each day, etc...
ArthurClemens	Yes	Booked

I am currently working on convincing one of the most well-known wiki-evangelists, that I know of to participate in the summit. That would be great. -- MartinSeibert - 07 Aug 2008

(Proposed) Agenda

• Day One - Morning - Introductions and Demos
  • Who's who
  • Welcome to my plugin (plugin demos)
  • Welcome to my TWiki (project demos)
• Day One - Afternoon - politics
  • Discuss solutions for political challenges
    • Governance
      • Kenneth Lavrsen would rather have that we do NOT poison the mood with Governance politics unless the overall Governance issue has been settled. No repeat of the February discussions please!
    • Managing contributions - What do we do about orphan/broken plugins? Dead content?
    • Recruiting and keeping contributors
• Day Two - Morning - roadmap
  • State of the competition - who matters? What are they doing?
  • Roadmap for next few TWiki releases (at least TWiki 5.0), possible topics:
    • Is 'Web 2.0' a reasonable claim?
    • How do we optimize the TWiki storage model. Is it a database store? Or a mix?
    • What about AJAX?
    • Packaging TWiki applications
    • See also: FeatureRequests (review and draft priorities before the summit)
    • A face-lift for TWikis user interface (improve usability)
• Day Two - Afternoon

Breakout sessions (to be organised amongst interested parties) :

• Talk about a German marketing website for TWiki

Reasons to attend

• Meet key people in the project
• Help drive the next generation - speak for your favourite features
• Share your experiences, show off your work
• Influence how the project will be governed in the future

TWiki Meetup in Berlin

Sponsors

How about organizing sponsoring a bit more so that we see what is needed, who already provides what. There are a lot of people outside of Codev that use TWiki and would probably be willing to contribute to TWiki that way as a sponsor to the TWikiCommunity.

Discussion

Hotel Rates please can someone tell me how much the hotel is with the Motorola discount applied. Thanks.

-- MichaelCorbett - 17 Apr 2008

Round 80 Euros per night.

-- KennethLavrsen - 17 Apr 2008

Thanks, Kenneth. That means 65 quid or 125 dollars.

I'll be bringing my wife too. Do you happen to know what the rate is for a double room?

-- MichaelCorbett - 18 Apr 2008

That you will have to ask at the hotel. The hotel also has special weekend rates also for tourists. The Motorola discount is for normal weekday nights negotiated for business people visiting Motorola in Berlin.

-- KennethLavrsen - 18 Apr 2008

I just booked a flight from Frankfurt to Tegel. Do not change the dates. For all other interessees near Frankfurt: The fare was as low as 78,00 Euro. :-O

-- MartinSeibert - 19 Apr 2008

I will try to make it but it would have been easier for me to do that over the week-end as it was once suggested. Now I have to sell that to my boss or use up vacation days...

-- StephaneLenclud - 10 Jul 2008

isnt a twiki meeet with only intranet access a bit odd? can we push motorolla for an open connection (wifi) in both rooms or change the venue?

-- AdamHyde - 04 Aug 2008

I tried to flesh out the agenda a bit more.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 06 Aug 2008

Could we have an open space style of summit with only little slots, that need the attention of all members together. This way everybody can contribute and we will be more productive. See here fo more info on open space: http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?AboutOpenSpace, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-space_meeting, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology

-- MartinSeibert - 08 Aug 2008

We are not really enough people to do open spaces efectively.

-- KennethLavrsen - 14 Aug 2008

The agenda item "A face-lift for TWikis user interface" attracted some comments that were out of place in an agenda, so I moved them to TWikiUsabiltyTalk .

-- CrawfordCurrie - 15 Aug 2008