Here's what happened: London wikiwed 21 February 2007 - what happened

Rationale for the date:

I wanted to arrange one as soon as possible in 2007. The first Wednesday in February clashes with Lift07, the second is Valentine's day (which wouldn't be too popular - even wiki geeks have partners, wives, husbands), and so we decided on Wednesday 21st February.

Venue and logistics:

Goodman Jones have offered their premises for the evening, at 29-30 Fitzroy Square, in sight of the BT Tower, a short walk from Warren Street Tube. Click here for How to find them, or Google maps shows you where the are. GJ are a London based accounting practice, who recently won the Accountancy Age award for the best use of the Internet (practice).

We aim for people to arrive around 18:15 for a 19:00 formal start. We have GJ's main board room/meeting room. Watch here for more details.

Sponsorship opportunity:

With some help from Hugh Macleod, Stormhoek have kindly agreed to provide their excellent wine for the evening - thanks Jason Korman. Goodman Jones have also agreed to provide the food for the evening - thanks Philip Woodgate.

However, we will be looking for venues and sponsors for the next and subsequent events. Our friends at SocialText are talking to Microsoft to see if they can help out. Please contact David Terrar by mail or skype if you are interested.

Microsoft have kindly agreed to provide refreshments and the venue for the next one, probably to be on the first Wednesday in April - my thanks to Jim Lawn.

Meeting content:

We'd like every everyone who attends to do at least a 5 minute show and tell on how they are using wiki technology, but feel free to just come along and listen if you don't fancy presenting. Particular items we know will be covered:

• The Enterprise Irregulars use of the Blogtronix combined wiki, blog, document management, RSS and social networking platform
• GJ's use of the Internet
• Wiki and social networking experiences in the Enterprise e.g. BBC
• Wiki functionality in Microsoft SharePoint
• BT Workplace, the new collaboration platform aimed at SME/SMBs

Topics we'd like someone to come forward and present on:

• Suite Two (someone from SocialText is planning to attend, so hopefully they'll be able to say something on this)
• SocialText Unplugged - SocialText's off-line wiki (Jeremy has volunteered as they use his technology - great!)
• Any other Enterprise use cases

If there is something you'd like to see covered, add the topic here:

• Add more here

Meeting format:

Here is the format for Wednesday's session. One of the objectives is to agree the format and frequency for follow on meetings so that we can make this concept useful and a success. We'll also be trying to allow everybody time to present their project , have their say, share their knowledge.

Facilities:

Hi David - Can you confirm whether we'll have internet connectivity and a projector for the demos? -- Cheers Jeremy Ruston

There will definitely be a projector and Internet connected PC available for any to use. I'll double check about connecting "other" PCs to GJ's network during today and post here when I have an answer. - DT

GJ's IT have just confirmed that any newtork capable PC/MAc with a standard socket will connect and get through to the Internet. Some of the team will be on hand to help people during the evening (Thanks Daren!) - DT.

Blogs

You can now browse easily through (almost) all attendees blogs here.

Attendees:

Please add yourself in the usual way:

Attendee ( ) / speaker ( ) / listener ( )

1. David Terrar - one of the Enterprise Irregulars, and the one organising this thing. Blogger, consultant, software entrepreneur. I plan to explain how the EI group are using Blogtronix, as well as some of my other wiki experiences. Attendee (y) / speaker (y) / listener (y)

2. Jeremy Ruston - creator of TiddlyWiki and partner for Socialtext Unplugged, I'd love to run through a demo. Attendee (y) / speaker (y) / listener (y)

3. Euan Semple - did social computing at the BBC now adviser to others. Currently blogging on Enterprise 2.0 at the FastForward blog and apparently about to become an Enterprise Irregular. Attendee (y) / speaker (y) / listener (y)

4. Guillaume Lerouge - a French student living in London this year, really interested in wikis and working with XPertNet's team on XWiki. I would be glad to present on how XWiki is used in various corporate settings, and why not on its applicative features too (basically, it means that you can program directly in the wiki and use it to power a great variety of solutions, such as Curriki or BestVentes.com, both XWiki powered). Attendee (y) / speaker (y) / listener (y)

5. David Tebbutt y/n/y - communication skills trainer, journalist and shareware publisher (a very 0.5 hobby, I'd say). Been writing about social computing and its honourable predecessors: communities of practice, knowledge management (ha!), email, groupware etc etc

6. Matt O'Neill - Communications strategist and service provider. Have been recently involved in running event blogs for English Heritage and the British Council. Moving into managed social networking services for corporations and international organisations. Attendee (y) / speaker (y) / listener (y)

7. Lars Plougmann - independent consultant: collaboration strategy

8. Nick Swan - SharePointer. Attendee (y) / speaker (y) / listener (y)

9. Matthew Taylor - SharePoint consultant and software developer. Attendee (y) / speaker (n) / listener (y)

10.Dennis Howlett - Chief Dogsbody Enterprise Irregulars, occasional updater to Den's Enterprisey Foghorn and scourge of ICAEW at Accman. Will attend flights permitting.

11. -Tim Barker- - Co-founder & VP Products, --Koral. Attendee (y) / speaker (y) / listener (y)- Sorry, can't make it now :-(

12. John Wilson - Partner, Folio Partners. Attendee (y) / speaker (y) / listener (y) Early Stage Investment company primarily focussed upon Financial Services (Capital Markets & Banking related businesses) and Technology. Keen interest in Saas businesses and online apps.

13. Juan Bau Garcia http://www.headshift.com project manager and heavy wiki user. Attendee(y) / speaker(n) / listener(y)

14. Simon Carswell http://enterknowl.blogspot.com/ - Information manager who suspects that Enterprise 2.0 could be the right way to 'do KM'. Attendee (y) / speaker (n) / listener (y)

15. Jim Lawn - Co-founder of Polecat - looking for the social impact in social media. Attendee (y) / speaker (n) / listener (y)

16. Bronwyn Kunhardt - Co-founder of Polecat - looking for the social impact in social media. Attendee (y) / speaker (n) / listener (y)

(n/a) Nicole Mathison - Working on the HP in-house wiki, HPedia, for the U.K., plus about to soft-launch a non-profit wiki - unfortunately this date clashes with the London Girl Geek Dinner I'm helping Sarah Blow organise, so my listing's on the off-chance the date changes as it did last time. Attendee (hopefully) / speaker (n) / listener (y) (Hi Nicole, except for unforeseen circumstances the date won't change now, too many people committed arriving from oversees. It's a great shame there is a clash. My friend Sig has been escorted to a geek girl dinner last year, so I'm really envious - David Terrar.) (Hi David, such a pity, fingers crossed for a recording! Well you're hereby invited as my guest to a future GGD, just let me know which you'd like to get to - emilicon at my domain - A GGD combined with Wiki night would be fantastic.)

17. Simon Revell - Technical software development/implementation manager and corporate intranet revolutionary. Happy to talk about our wiki experiences to date and our work on a multimedia wiki plug-in for Community Server. Attendee (y) / speaker (y) / listener (y)

18. Scott Gavin- no longer able to attend but look forward to next one- Contract I.T Project Manager, Web Geek, Enterprise 2.0 Activist, Entrepreneur. Having set up various blogs, wiki's and sites outside of the enterprise, am now looking for contacts and likeminded people who share a passion for changing the enterprise collaboration landscape. Attendee (y) / speaker (y) / listener (y)

19. Antonio Chagoury - Chief Technology Officer, SMBLive. Attendee (y) / speaker (n) / listener (y)

20. Mt Howard - CEO, SMBLive. Attendee (y) / speaker (n) / listener (y)

21. Alan Wood (Al) Folknology Attendee (y) / speaker (n) / listener (y)

(n/a) Sarah Blow I wish I could attend, but unfortunately your event clashes with both Geek Dinners and London Girl Geek Dinners (see upcoming or TechVenue. With 80 people signed up and people coming over from Japan, Italy and Germany for this event, FOWA and Bar Camp London I can't move my event unfortunately. I've managed to make it to all the other Wiki Wed events in London (can someone record it for me so that I don't miss out?!) Maybe some time we could do a Wiki Wed London Girl Geek Dinner.... what do you think? It would be good to get Wiki Wed a bit more exposure! (Hi Sarah - it's a shame about the clash, but we should settle down to "first Wednesdays" after this one. Your idea of a combined event with the Geek Girl Dinner is an excellent one. Let's get in touch and see what we can arrange - David Terrar)

22. Geoff Jones from Our Social World Attendee (y) / speaker (n) / listener (y)

23. Andy Roberts - DARnet. Technology steward with a leaning towards Open Source software deployed in the public arena. UK manager for PajamaNation creating the global marketplace for microjobs. Attendee (y) / speaker (y) / listener (y)

24. Richard Murphy, thinking about ways to use wiki... / listener (y)

25. Simon Hurst - IT Faculty, ICAEW

26. Russell Edkins - Business analyst at Blueprint Digital and founder/owner of Soul101. Attendee (y) / speaker (n) / listener (y)

27. Mark Rogers - CEO at Market Sentinel. Interested in social networks, collaboration, reputation management, knowledge management, new stuff. Attendee (y) ... isn't that listener category redundant? Or maybe not ... ;-)

n/a. Allan Engelhardt (y/n/y) - unfortunately no longer able to attend :-( Looking forward to the next event in April. Love the WikiWed+LGGD suggestion by Sarah.

29. Can't make it anymore but see you in April when we'll have proper social networking features in Terapad! --Stephan Tual (y/n/y). MD SiteJourney - / -www.terapad.com
www.terapad.com

30. Karl Schneider (y/y/y). Editorial Development Director, Reed Business Information.

31. Barry Shrier (y/y/y). CEO, Liberty Europe. Founder, The Good Club. Passionate enthusiast for the Digital revolution, wiki sceptic. Former VP, Deutsche Bank - launched PayBox (worlds 1st mobile payment service). Current heroes: Dan Hillis, Martin Eberhard.

32. Gordon Joly (y/y/y) - various wikis

33. Phil Wainewright - blogs at ZDNet, also Loosely Coupled, Enterprise Irregulars, FastForward Blog. Unfortunately have a conflict early evening but will be there 8pm onwards. Attendee (y) / speaker (n) / listener (y) / chatter (y)

34. Flemming Madsen (y/y/y) - Onalytica - Use wiki (I guess) in our online media monitoring, analysis and engagement platform. Would love to give a quick demo.

35. Andreas Rindler - Consultant, BearingPoint's Process and Content Management group. Attendee (y) / speaker (n) / listener (y) / chatter (y)

36. Christoph Schmaltz - Consultant, Headshift, using social software in the enterprise. Attendee (y) / speaker (n) / listener (y)

37. Hemma Kocher - Consultant, Headshift, using social software in the enterprise. Attendee (y) / speaker (n) / listener (y)