2008-01-06: Fun, Successful and Healthy New Year 2008
The Thoeny Family in Harmony, CA (2007-12-27)
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From Peter
2007 was quite an eventful year for all of us. In April I co-founded
TWIKI.NET together with
Rod Beckstrom. Rod is a serial entrepreneur, a motivational speaker and co-author of the bestseller
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations. We founded the company to cultivate, nurture and advance
TWiki as the leading open source enterprise wiki. I have seen that wikis can fundamentally change the way people work together; it was always my dream to create a company that helps revolutionize collaboration and enhance productivity in all organizations. TWIKI.NET is a funded company. We are currently operating under a Series A Angel fund; we are now accepting bridge loans by private investors (let me know if you are interested), and in spring 2008 we will go for an institutional Series B fund with Venture Capitalists. Typical for Silicon Valley startups, it is very hectic, we improvise a lot, and we have lots of fun!
The open source
TWiki project is moving along well. We had our first ever
TWiki Community Summit, where 12 key contributors met in Rome, Italy in August. We also started to engage the user community by organizing
TWiki Meet-Ups in the Silicon Valley, Berlin and other places. We would like to expand the TWiki community, we are looking for committed contributors to work on spec, code, tech writing and marketing.
Dan Woods and I have been working for a long time on a
Wikis in the Workplace book. We preempted it for the
Wikis for Dummies book, which came out in August. I continue to take every speaking opportunity, such as
Tutorial on Wikis in the Workplace at the
Wiki Symposium 2007 in Montreal, Canada.
Ladina continues to learn Chinese Dance; she has several performances a year. She also started to learn
Guzheng, a Chinese table harp. She was rehearsing in a local orchestra that was invited to play in Beijing for the Olympic committee in August. We all planned to go to Beijing, however, there was lots of back and forth if they could perform there or not. We first went to Hong Kong to visit family. Shona and kids continued to Beijing, I went back home to launch TWIKI.NET at
LinuxWorld in San Francisco. To the big disappointment of all the kids and parents, the orchestra could not perform for the Olympic committee, but a very short clip was aired on
CCTV-2.
Alexis is drawing me more into the world of
model rocketry. He is designing is own rockets with simulation software. We are members of the
LUNAR club that meets at a ranch east of Stockton, CA, to launch low to high powered rockets. The FAA is locking down the air space so that members can shoot rockets up to 15,000 feet. Alexis is asking me now to get a certification to launch high powered rockets (he is still too young.)
It is hard to keep in touch with friends spread all around the world. I hope we can meet one day at home in San Jose, or around the world when we travel. I found
Facebook, a social networking website, good to keep in touch with friends and business associates. Shona, Ladina and I are registered, you can find us there.
I wish all of you a fun, successful and, last but not least, a healthy new year! Life is colorful, make it happen!
From Shona
HAHAHA!! As usual late greeting from Thoeny family; at least in touch once a Year.
I wish you all good health, happiness and success for whatever you do!
From Ladina (12 years)
I hope 2007 was ok for everyone, and wish luck for 2008.
From Alexis (almost 11 years)
I hope you enjoyed 2007. I wish you luck and lots of fun for 2008.
Photos from 2007
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Raclette dinner at Martin Eckert's home: Karen, Martin, Peter (2007-01-06)
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The Thoeny family at home at Alexis' birthday party (2007-01-24)
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Alexis is building a 4 cluster rocket after designing and flying it with rocket simulation
software (2007-02-22)
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Mah-jong at Man's place: Shona, Athena Law, Hilda Chan, Man Cheung (2007-02-25)
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Alexis is ready to launch the Golden Rocket, his cluster rocket
(2007-03-03)
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Preparing for launch; inset showing launch of rocket (2007-03-03)
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At the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-12), San Francisco in the background.
Alexis and Peter stayed there over night with the Boy Scouts. (2007-03-10)
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Inside the USS Hornet: CIC (Combat Information Center) in dim light (2007-03-10)
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Peninsula Swiss Club Committee dinner: Angela and Joe Ott with grown up children
(2007-03-31)
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Typical Swiss style Sunday brunch at home. The round cheese is Tête de Moine from Jura,
Switzerland (2007-04-18)
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At a Peninsula Swiss Club event: Alexis is tossing a ball at
tin cans (2007-05-06)
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Ladina practicing the Guzheng at home (2007-05-08)
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Shona and Patrice Beckstrom at Rod's beach house in Sanata Cruz, CA (2007-05-12)
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Ladina's birthday party: Michelle Shieh, Karen, Alissa, Ladina, Brenda Li, Didi Yang
(2007-05-18)
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Ladina performing on stage (2007-05-26)
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Chinese orchestra rehearsing in a car garage in Fremont, CA. Ladina in white shirt
(2007-06-01)
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At TWIKI.NET's investment celebration dinner: David Allen with investor/advisor
Saeed Amidi (2007-06-09)
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Shona and Alexis at celebration dinner at Park Place, Cupertino, CA (2007-06-09)
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Cheers: Co-founders Rod Beckstrom and Peter (2007-06-09)
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Peter with David Allen's TWiki Birdie, the company mascot (2007-06-09)
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Dinner at Chez Shona: Shona, Ariela and Dan Kikinis, David Allen (2007-06-17)
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Pierre Khawand and wife Susanne waited in line overnight at the Apple store in Palo Alto
to get the iPhone first hand. Susanne was so kind to get one for Peter! (2007-06-29)
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Jackie Hernandez holding the TWIKI.NET logo that will hang in the hallway of the
Plug and Play Tech Center, the tech incubation center where TWIKI.NET is located
(2007-06-29)
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Peter and Hikaru Yuminaga at Peer 39 in San Francisco (2007-06-29)
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At the Golden Gate Bridge: Ken and Hikaru Yuminaga come to visit us from
Japan/China (2007-06-30)
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Celebrating July 4th at Rod's beach house in Santa Cruz, CA: Rod Beckstrom and
kids (2007-07-04)
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Peter preparing Banana Flambé for July 4th (2007-07-04)
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Arriving for dinner at the Lung Wah Hotel in New Territories, Hong Kong (2007-07-31)
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Peter's favorite food: Pigeon Hong Kong style! With Patrick Lai (2007-07-31)
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Ladina, Iris Lai with daugther Hau Wing Leung (2007-07-31)
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Family photo after dinner. Back: Elaine Chen, Yung Shek Leung, Patrick Lai, Alexis,
Iris Lai, Ladina, Peter, Shona. Front: Philip Leung, Iris Lai, Hau Wing Leung,
Shona's Mom, Sophia Ho, Darwin Ho (2007-07-31)
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Tour on an ancient Junk ship from Hong Kong to Kowloon: Alexis and Shona (2007-08-02)
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The Thoeny family with grand-grandma (2007-08-02)
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Busy TWIKI.NET booth at LinuxWorld in San Francisco (2007-08-07)
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Rod Beckstrom performs at LinuxWorld: Explaining the concepts of his
The Starfish and the Spider book and introducing TWIKI.NET (2007-08-08)
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Rod Beckstrom, Kenneth Lavrsen and Crawford Currie sightseeing in Rome (2007-08-15)
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At the TWiki Summit in Rome (2007-08-16)
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Attendees of TWiki Summit: Kenneth Lavrsen, Crawford Currie, Emanuele Cupido, Sander
Duivestein, Rod Beckstrom, Arthur Clemens, Koen Martens, Carlo Schulz, Andrea Sterbini,
Peter, Colas Nahaboo; Steffen Poulsen not in picture (2007-08-16)
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Peter making it clear at the summit that he wears two hats: Founder of TWiki.org and
co-founder of TWIKI.NET (2007-08-16)
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Dinner in a nice Italian restaurant (2007-08-16)
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Ladina at the Silicon Valley Moon Festival, between performances (2007-09-29)
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Ladina chatting with friends, Didi Yang on the right (2007-09-29)
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Ladina, Didi Yang and one more dancer performing at the Moon Festival (2007-09-29)
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Kenneth Lavrsen explains the TWiki based Quality Management System at Motorola
Denmark during Peter's Tutorial on Wikis in the Workplace at the Wiki
Symposium in Montreal, Canada (2007-10-22)
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Alexis built this mask at school; also holding a Tengu mask from Japan (2007-11-05)
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We get a hardwood floor at home: Alexis is helping Man Cheung to install it (2007-11-24)
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Someone is launching a Piñata rocket that contains 5 lb of candies; the kids run and
grab the candy falling out of the sky (2007-12-08)
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Alexis built the Mirage, a 7 foot rocket from a kit (2007-12-08)
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Kids playing Kemp at the Atlantis Casino Hotel in Reno, NV. In back: Evelyn Tan,
Bailee Tan,
Ladina, Michelle Shieh (2007-12-23)
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Ladina at Sunset in Morro Bay, CA (2007-12-27)
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Kiss and happiness: Shona with kids in Santa Barbara, CA (2007-12-28)
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Ladina and vase. At the incredible Getty Museum, Los Angeles
(2007-12-28)
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Thynn Thynn Hlaing with son in Monterey Park, Los Angeles (2007-12-30)
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Aunt Rebecca Che and uncle Raymond Che at Dim Sum in Monterey Park (2007-12-30)
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Alexis after his first golf lesson with instructor Michelle Lo
(2007-12-30)
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