TWiki Meet-Ups

The great success of the TWikiCommunitySummitRome2007 inspired us in having lots of local meet ups. Rome clearly showed us how inspiring and helpful face to face meetings are. The TWikiCommunitySummits are geared towards TWikiCommunity members, the TWiki Meet-Ups towards users.

You don't even need an agenda for meet ups, just meet other TWiki champions, have a beer (or orange juice ), chat about what you do with TWiki and get inspired! We already have TWikiUserGroups which by now are just results of formatted searches. Lets try to make real user groups out of them - If you feel like meeting other TWiki-holics is a good idea then simply go for it and invite them for a local meet up in a pub, in your living room, or where ever you like.

Lets strengthen our TWikiCommunity and also try to invite less, none active and none members and twiki users!

Meet-up Coordination & Calendar

TWiki Meet-Ups are coordinated in meetup topics on twiki.org (below) and at the TWiki Wiki Meetups group, http://newcareer.meetup.com/110/ (your choice.)

Meetup in	Date	Venue	Meetup RSVP
Denmark	2008-09-16 17:00	TBD	twiki.org
Moscow	2008-05-24 15:00	Evropeyskiy mall food court	twiki.org
Silicon Valley	2008-05-16 05:30pm	Plug and Play Tech Center	N/A
Holland	2008-04-25 13:00	Delft, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, TuDelft, room A2.100	twiki.org
Hamburg	2008-03-31 19:00	Schanzenkaffee - Bartelsstr. 12	N/A
Europe	2008-02-23/24	FOSDEM´08, Brussels, Belgium	N/A
Silicon Valley	2008-02-15 05:30pm	Yahoo Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (Building C, Classroom 5)	N/A
Holland	2008-01-25 17:00	Amsterdam, UvA - media faculty (door open 16:00)	N/A
Denmark	2008-01-17 17:00	At Symbion conference	N/A
Silicon Valley	2007-11-29 05:30pm	Plug and Play Tech Center	N/A
Berlin	2007-11-07 4:00 PM	Web Expo 2.0 Berlin, Berlin Messe Expo Floor private room	N/A

Regional Meet-ups

Create your own local meet-up topic and start inviting people.

Regional TWiki User Mailing Lists

• TWikiUsersNLMailingList - to announce TWiki related events in Holland
• TWikiUsersSFBayMailingList - to announce TWiki related events in San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley
• Note: Let PeterThoeny know if you would like to have a TWiki user mailing list for your region

-- Contributors: CarloSchulz, PeterThoeny - 16 Mar 2008

Discussion

I do not like the idea of organizing this on a different website. I have to create an extra account, check out yet another website and so on. Why not doing this here on twiki.org? I just realized that Rod will be at the web 2.0 expo in Berlin but I completly missed this info here on twiki.org. Why? because it's not stated here, it's stated on website that has noting to do with twiki...

• I posted it on this page on twiki.org on 2007-11-03, the day it was decided. -- PTh

-- CarloSchulz - 05 Nov 2007

Carlo is right, why not just create a new CommentPlugin template or a small TWikiApplication that allows to collect the same meta data as this meetup thingi? If you need the calendar view: Lynnwood could do this as described in HowToIntegrateWeekAndMonthCalendar.

Or at least get the dates from that external web site and display them in a nice TWiki table. Maybe by using their RSS feed with the HeadlinesPlugin or something.

-- FranzJosefGigler - 05 Nov 2007

(I moved above comments from TWikiMeetupTemplate)

The goal of the TWiki meetups is to get many users involved, also those who are not registered on TWiki.org. Meetup.com has millions of users. I think it makes sense to use it because of the exposure we get; we will be able to attract many more people.

We can make this flexible by enabling people to signup on TWiki.org or on Meetup.com.

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Nov 2007

I agree with Carlo, we don't need another site (R)(TM) to conduct our business do we?

-- KoenMartens - 06 Dec 2007

See my notes at TWikiMeetUpInSiliconValley on 03 Dec 2007 why it makes sense to give people a choice (twiki.org, Facebook or meetup.com.)

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Dec 2007

Has anyone been thinking about a meetup.com TWiki plugin? To sync to or with TWiki.org?

-- SvenDowideit - 05 Feb 2008

I created the TWikiUsersNLMailingList and TWikiUsersSFBayMailingList. Let me know if you would like to have a TWiki user mailing list for your region.

-- PeterThoeny - 16 Mar 2008