Events/FOSDEM/2014

FOSDEM (Brussels, Belgium) is probably the best community driven FOSS event in Europe. It's massive, chaotic and fun.

2014

1-2 February: https://fosdem.org/2014/

We have one main track session: The Wikipedia Stack, by Erik Moeller.

Wikis devroom

Join the Wikis devroom on Saturday 1st. See the schedule.

Coordination: Quim Gil (MediaWiki), Vincent Massol (XWiki) and Jean-Marc Libs (Tiki) coordinate the devroom.

Wikimedia stand

See the complete list of stands.

Team: Dimitar Dimitrov (coordinator, Wikimedia Belgium), Quim Gil (Wikimedia Foundation). Stevie Benton (Wikimedia UK), Lydia Pintscher (Wikimedia Deutschland).

Keep in mind for next time:

* We had somebody ask about accepting donations at the stand (henna)

* People asking to buy things (henna)

• Also need more goodies; other projects fundraiser a bit that way and have lots. We should have a selection on shirts and mugs for sale (both very popular)

Stand design

What do we get from the organizers? Are they setting any requirements?

:Asked organisers for details, no response yet. dimi

Do we need to print anything?

:A banner would be great. WMBE had prepared to have one, but we can't do it, because we're not affiliated yet. dimi

Merchandising

(We need an address to send the materials)

• Who will bring what? (MediaWiki and Wikidata information material, WMBE/WMUK/WMDE goodies)
• Wikimedia Foundation brings...

:Asked WMDE and WMUK for goodies. Waiting for response.

::WMUK will send a package of freebies.

::WMDE/Wikidata will bring a package.

Activities

• Cool events/activities to attract our stand and make it memorable?
• Anything to demo? PC / laptop?

What else?

Shifts

We need at least 2 volunteers in each slot. We also need volunteers for mounting / unmounting.

Times to be confirmed. Friday build up, Saturday 9:00-19:00 and Sunday 9:00-17:00.

Friday

Saturday

Which are the opening / closing times?

• 9-11: mounting Dimi, Ward
• 11-13:
• 13-15: AKlapper (WMF)
• 15-17: MPelletier (WMF) + Lionel Scheepmans (talk)
• 17-19:

Sunday

Which are the opening / closing times?

• 9-11: Qgil
• 11-13: Catrope
• 13-15: Lionel Scheepmans
• 15-17: Khorn (WMF)
• 17-19 (includes unmounting, the more the merrier): Qgil, Siebrand

Participants

Link to your user profile and explain your main tasks / motivations.

• Qgil, co-organizing the Wikis devroom.
• MPelletier (WMF), giving a talk and attending.
• Khorn (WMF), going to listen and learn.
• AKlapper (WMF), lurking.
• siebrand, giving a talk and attending.
• Dimi, Wikimedian based in Brussels (lobbying for a copyright reform)
• Seb35, interested in MediaWiki and free softwares (yes! :-)
• Jean-Fred (talk) − saw the light on, thought I would come :)
• Henna (talk) I can help with the stand but don't have times yet
• Lionel Scheepmans (talk) : Interested to share knowledge and hep for every thing needed.
• --Aktron (talk) 18:14, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
• Ori Livneh
• Faidon Lamboitis
• Daniel Zahn
• Alexandros Kosaris
• Roan Kattouw
• Erik Moeller
• Andrew Garrett
• Antoine Musso finally not attending.
• Harsh Kothari - Giving talks and attending
• Guido Iaquinti
• Geertivp (talk)