Events/FOSDEM/2014

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

FOSDEM main track, 2014.

2014

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

Talks about MediaWiki or Wikimedia

We have one session on the main FOSDEM track:

• The Wikipedia Stack, by Erik Moeller.

We have one Wikimedia-related interview:

• Interview with Erik Moeller: An insider's look at the free encyclopedia's code that anyone can clone, branch and commit

See other mentions of Wikimedia in the FOSDEM 2014 schedule.

Wikis devroom

Join the Wikis devroom on Saturday 1st. We have 17 sessions in the Wikis devroom.

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

Blog posts

• Wikimedia engineering report, September 2013, blog.wikimedia.org.
• Wikimedia engineering report, October 2013, blog.wikimedia.org.
• Harsh4101991 FOSDEM Report (Wikimedia TPS Grant), Meta-Wiki.

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)