TWiki Meet-Up in Silicon Valley

Our third Silicon Valley TWiki User Meet-up took place on 2008-05-16 at the Plug and Play Tech Center, the tech incubation center in Sunnyvale where TWIKI.NET is located. It was an opportunity to mingle with wiki aficionados and to learn from each other what does/does not work when deploying a wiki at work.

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Meet-Up Calendar

TWikiMeetUps are coordinated below (in reverse chronological order) and at the TWiki Wiki Meetups group, http://newcareer.meetup.com/110/ (your choice.)

TWiki User Meet-Up 2008-05-16, 05:30pm

TWiki User Meet-Up 2008-02-15, 05:30pm

Where:

• Headquarters of Yahoo! Inc.
• Building C, Classroom 5
• 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, USA ( map)

This was interesting meetup held just after the TWiki community summit. Peter showed the roadmap and explained key features of the TWiki 4.2 release. Five people gave a demo of TWiki usage:

• Kenneth Lavrsen -- TWiki based quality system at Motorola Denmark
• Lynwood Brown -- Customer site demo
• KRS Murthy -- Proposed "Music DJ" demo
• Catherine Chat and Cyril Bousquet -- TWiki plus SharePoint at ILOG
• Rich Morin - How INCLUDEs can be leveraged

See some photos at TWikiCommunitySummit2008Q1Photos.

Agenda of TWiki User Meet-Up 2008-02-15, 05:30pm

• 05:30-06:00 Networking and pizza
• 06:00-07:00 Intro and demos
• 07:00-07:15 Vote on best demo
• 07:15-08:00 More networking and pizza

RSVP below and/or on the meetup.com event page:

Total:
Maybe: 4
No: 1
Yes: 33

TWiki User Meet-Up 2007-11-29, 05:30pm

Where:
Plug and Play Tech Center
440 N. Wolfe Road
Sunnyvale , CA 94085 ( map)

The Meet-Up will start with a short presentation by Peter Thoeny and Rod Beckstrom. The highlight of our Meet-Up will be the "TWiki Champion" video competition!! Users will be able to share their interesting TWiki use to have a chance to win prizes like the new iPod Nano, Peter Thoeny's, "Wiki's for Dummies" signed copy, and the signed copy of Rod Beckstrom's book, "The Starfish, and the Spider."

There will be free Pizza and Drinks provided!

TWiki User Meet-Up organizer: AmirShobeiri. If there are any questions or comments, feel free to email Amir (amir AT twiki DOT net).

• Update: See related blog post of the event.

RSVP below and/or on the meetup.com event page:

Total:
Maybe: 3
No: 11
Yes: 41

-- Contributors: PeterThoeny - 06 Nov 2007

Discussion

wow, that are already three times more people than on the TWikiCommunitySummitRome2007

-- CarloSchulz - 19 Nov 2007

Yep, we notified many users. This is mainly a user meetup, complementing the TWikiCommunitySummits. I will try to recruit new contributors. I'd like to see user meetup initiatives in other parts of the world!

-- PeterThoeny - 20 Nov 2007

Just a quick note on the first Silicon Valley TWiki User Meetup: It was a nice gathering, about 60 people showed up. Rod and I first gave a presentation. I showed some of the collaboration slides of the wiki for workplace tutorial I gave at WikiSym2007; Rod talked about the Starfish and Spider concept and introduced TWIKI.NET. Then we asked participants to tell their TWiki story. People of Yahoo, Motorola, as well as startups/consultants showed what they do with TWiki. First prize went to VickiBrown of Yahoo who showed TWikiForms based TWikiApplications, second prize went to IanKluft who showed a HowToMultipleTWikiSitesOnSingleInstallation, third prize went to Guy Martin who showed how they use TWiki at Motorola. We had lots of fun, networking, pizza, beer and wine. Let's repeat that!

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Dec 2007

My presentation can be viewed at cfcl.com:TWikiMeetupPres

-- VickiBrown - 02 Dec 2007

We will have a live broadcast for the 2008-05-16 meetup, see streaming video above.

-- PeterThoeny - 16 May 2008

Apparently there was some technical difficulties on the live broadcasting, it did not happen! The video will be made available.

-- PeterThoeny - 16 May 2008