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2010-12-26: We Wish You Success, Good Health and Lots of Joy in 2011
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The Thoeny Family (2010-08-15)
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Address:
1022 Belvedere Ln,
San Jose,
CA 95129,
USA
phone +1-408-255-1477
From Peter
2010 was an eventful year again, this time with some challenges. Shona was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer this spring. She went through treatments and recovered fast. Shona could avoid chemo thanks to a relatively new Oncotype DX test that examines the genomes. At this point all looks OK and as planned, with a low risk of recurrence. Shona took it in stride. I am thankful for the advances in medical research; I am so glad we live now, and not 50 or 100 years earlier.
Ladina spent a year in Switzerland at the Kantonsschule Zug as an exchange student. Thank you brother Christian for hosting Ladina! She came back this summer, re-energized for high school. Ladina and I talk now in German. Before she went to Switzerland our conversation was Swiss German one way, English the other way. Ladina continues studying Guzheng, and just recently she started learning a very ancient Chinese instrument called Guqin.
Alexis continues experimenting with many things. From skiing to golf, from air guns to model rockets, from melting glass to making cheese. He loves woodwork at school, he brings home beautiful clocks, padlocks and plates.
Ringo Leung continues his study at Foothill College. He got this first car, a necessity in the Silicon Valley.
Sina Tschirky was with us for a year, she went back to Switzerland this summer. We miss her! We have now Mengyi Xu, a student from China living with us. She is studying at De Anza College.
Work is very challenging. We have not been able to secure venture capital money as planned, so CEO Jitendra Kavathekar and I bootstrap the company the best we can. We have good customers by name, such as Disney, US Federal Reserve Bank and Sony, but the average deal amount is still relatively small. Sopan Shewale, our engineering manager in India, left this summer. We engage consultants as needed, but most of the R&D and support falls back on me.
I am putting a lot of effort into getting more people to contribute to the open source TWiki. This turns out to be very challenging because we have persistent efforts by a fork (a splinter group that separated from TWiki in 2008) to position us as hostile to open source, and as outdated. Both are nonfactual; we are more inviting to new contributors than before the split (the developers who treated new contributors rudely left for the fork), and our product is better than ever in terms of quality, usability and feature set. For example, we had no need to release a patch release after the major TWiki-5.0.0 release for 4 month. In contrast, the fork had to release emergency patch releases in two week intervals in a recent minor release. Recently we have more contributions on plugins. For example, Craig Meyer is working on an EncryptPlugin to safely store passwords in TWiki pages; Aaron Walker is working on a SliderControlPlugin to get Mac style controls in TWiki. I am very grateful to all the TWiki contributors! Thank you, Thank You! Please help spread the word, we are trying to grow the TWiki community. Let me know if you have ideas how to grow the community.
I'd like to expand on my speaker engagements and do more advocacy work for TWiki. However, my workload is so high that I cannot do much, far from my personal goal. Robert Scooble, a well known tech blogger, interviewed CEO Jitendra Kavathekar and me, How Work is Changing with the Open Source Wiki Pioneers: TWiki (and, yes, you can see the smear campaign by the fork in the comments section). This summer I gave a talk at NASA Ames on Structured Wikis at Work - Enterprise 2.0 in Action.
I am looking forward to 2011, a new year with fresh ambitions.
I wish you loads of success, mixed with a healthy dose of luck, good health and last but not least lots'a fun in the new year!
From Shona
It was a good & hard year 2010. Ladina is back, yeappppppeeee!
My friend Wendy said: No matter how hard of the day, life keeps going on.
Happy life will make u younger & healthy.
I wish U all Good Health, Happy Holidays & Years!
From Ladina (15 years)
Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!
From Alexis (almost 14 years)
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all who see this! 8D
P.S. Have a great one this year.
From Yung Shek Ringo Leung (19 years)
Happy New Year!!! Have fun before the "End of the World" come ^.^
Photos from 2010
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New Year's Dim Sum (2010-01-01)
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Birthday kid Alexis is lighting the candles with a blow torch (2010-01-24)
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Fondue dinner at home with friends of Ringo and Sina: Lucas, ?, Anna, Sina Tschirky, Ringo, Alexis, Shona, Peter, Yanbi Homlyan (2010-01-29)
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All this needs to fit into the van - on the way to Fondue party by Peninsula Swiss Club (2010-02-06)
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Preparing Fondue for 170 people: 95 lb cheese, 4 gal Chablis. Pascal Gyger, Maya Gyger, Mares Buhler (2010-02-06)
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Steven Rasmussen, owner of the Milk Pail Market at the Fondue party (2010-02-06)
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Chinese New Year party at our home. Monny Wong, Celia Li, Shona, Anna Kong, Jason (2010-02-13)
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Dr. Adolf Ogi, former Swiss Federal Councilor and Consul Anderegg at the residence of Swiss Consul, San Francisco (2010-02-17)
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Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley and [[http://twiki.net/][]Twiki Inc] sign a Memorandum of Understanding to do research on disaster management: Peter and Dr. Martin Griss, Director of CMU Silicon Valley (2010-02-18)
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Dirk Riehle, Professor for Open Source Software at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg at our home (2010-02-20)
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Alexis in break dance class (2010-02-23)
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Dinner at home: Shona, Peter, Jerry Teng (2010-03-06)
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Spring brunch at Byington Winery in Los Gatos hills: Yoshi, Alissa and James Humfeld, Shona, Alexis, Ito-san, Yokia, Yuzuri, Naoko Ito. (2010-03-07)
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At Byington Winery: James & Yoshi Humfeld, Ito-san, Naoko Ito, Shona (2010-03-07)
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Alexis doing ski jumps at Boreal, near Donner Pass. (2010-03-14)
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Alexis is recovering the Mirage rocket, at NASA Ames (2010-03-20)
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Twiki Inc created a TWiki-based prototype of a disaster management dashboard. Peter presented it at the Silicon Valley Crisis camp, and we won an award. (2010-03-26)
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Gabriella Perrotta at the Italian Conversation Group in San Jose. Peter and Sina attend those meetups sometimes. (2010-04-01)
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Alexis is driving on the dirt road at Snow Ranch to the LUNAR rocket event. (2010-04-03)
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Alexis is preparing the cork rocket (2010-04-03)
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Duck, duck, goose at Easter event of Peninsula Swiss Club (2010-04-04)
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Twiki Inc is invited to show the disaster management dashboard to Jamshid "Jimmy" Delshad, Mayor of Beverly Hills: Peter, Mayor Delshad, Jitendra Kavathekar, Andrew Quintero (2010-04-13)
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Mengyi Xu and Sina Tschirki (2010-04-16)
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Alexis in left seat of Cessna 172SP with Garmin G1000 Glass Cockpit, taking a trial lesson at Tradewinds Aviation, Walter Gyger's flight school. Inset: Alexis climbing out at Reid Hillview Airport. (2010-04-17)
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Sina and Mengyi looking at Japanese puppets, at Cherry Blossom Festival, San Francisco (2010-04-18)
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Sina and Mengyi at Cherry Blossom Festival parade (2010-04-18)
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Cherry Blossom Festival procession (2010-04-18)
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Big roses at our Belvedere home (2010-04-27)
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Shona and Sina at Picchetti Winery in Cupertino (2010-05-02)
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Hike in Cupertino hills near Picchetti Winery (2010-05-02)
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Alexis and Peter volunteer at the rocket booth, at Maker Faire in San Mateo (2010-05-22)
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Alexis with turkey drum stick, at Maker Faire (2010-05-22)
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Van de Graaff generator show, synchronized with music, at Maker Faire (2010-05-22)
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Alexis tries out a home made wheelchair on two wheels, same balancing act as a Sega (2010-05-23)
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Dinner at home with Shona's yummy cooking: Uncle Raymond Che, Vinny Che, Ken Lam, Peter, Shona, Aunty Rebecca Che, Alexis (2010-05-29)
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Dinner party at home: Shona, Anna Kong, Crystal Liang, Ching Bays, Cherry Choi (2010-06-19)
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Mengyi and Sina at beautiful Montgomery Woods (2010-07-04)
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Creek and fern at Montgomery Woods. Tan Grandma, Shona, Sina (2010-07-04)
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July 4th fun at home: Alexis rasta (2010-07-04)
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Dinner at home with Julian Cash: Shona, Alexis, Ryan Choi, Ringo, Jackie Cash, Julian Cash (2010-07-16)
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Oh, no, it's raining apples! Alexis and Julian Cash (2010-07-16)
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Peter near Lovers Point, Pacific Grove (2010-07-17)
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Lunch picnic at Lovers Point, Pacific Grove (2010-07-17)
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Picnic at Lovers Point, Pacific Grove: Mark Petrie, Peter, Ladina, Alexis, Shona (2010-07-17)
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Break from cycling, at Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey (2010-07-17)
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Hong Kong dinner at home: Ringo, Wendy Lai, Alexis, Peter, Shona, Ladina, Muimui Leung (2010-07-27)
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First of August celebration of Pensinsula Swiss Club at Mike Schneider's home in Atherton, CA (2010-07-31)
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At First of August party (2010-07-31)
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Lantern parade at First of August party: Ladina, Wendy Lai, Muimui Leung (2010-07-31)
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Sailing fun in San Francisco bay: Wendy Lai, Ladina, captain Aaron Guiterrez (thanks Aaron!!) of Nehemiah Sailing Charters, Muimui Leung, Chris (2010-08-03)
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Sailing at San Francisco skyline: Wendy Lai, Peter (2010-08-03)
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Wendy Lai at Bixby Bridge near Big Sur, along Highway 1 near Big Sur -- scroll to see panorama! (2010-08-07)
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Alexis, along Highway 1 (2010-08-07)
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Wendy Lai and Peter Thoeny with Toyota Sequoia SUV - we got a week free rental from Sunnyvale Toyota due to a booking screw-up (their words). Thank you Sunnyvale Toyota! (2010-08-07)
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Models Ladina and Alexis (2010-08-08)
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Big family: Ladina, Muimui, Wendy, Shona, Peter, Alexis, Ringo (2010-08-08)
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Paparazzi photo at Griffith Observatory: Ladina (2010-08-08)
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At the M&M shop in Las Vegas: Wendy Lai, Ladina, Muimui Leung (2010-08-10)
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Tasting 16 different flavors of soft drinks around the world, at the Coca Cola shop in Las Vegas: Muimui Leung, Alexis, Ringo Leung, Ladina, Wendy Lai (2010-08-10)
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In front of our hotel, the Excalibur in Las Vegas: Lisa Radecke, Ladina, Shona, Muimui Leung, Alexis (2010-08-10)
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At Hoover Dam: Wendy Lai, Lisa Radecke (2010-08-11)
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Somewhere between Death Valley and Lone Pine: No police around (2010-08-12)
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Tufa towers at Mono Lake: Ladina, Lisa Radecke, Shona, Alexis (2010-08-12)
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Lisa Radecke at Ellery Lake near Yosemite park (2010-08-13)
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Peter at Golden Gate Bridge (2010-08-15)
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Muimui, Wendy, Ladina at Golden Gate Bridge (2010-08-15)
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Models Ladina and Alexis at Golden Gate Bridge (2010-08-15)
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Lisa Radecke and Ringo Leung, San Fransciso skyline in background (2010-08-15)
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Ladina and Lisa Radecke near Golden Gate Bridge (2010-08-15)
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Muilmui still thinks she did not have enough margarita! (2010-08-15)
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Bicycle trip to Monterey, CA: Tom Carrol (2010-09-05)
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Beautiful bike trail on the way to Monterey (2010-09-05)
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Mid-autumn party at home with lantern parade (2010-09-18)
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At mid-autumn party: Ladina performs the Guzheng in our backyard (2010-09-18)
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Alexis explains rocketry to Christian Simm, Director of Swissnex San Francisco and his kid at NASA Ames (2010-09-25)
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Launch control officer Tony Cooper in action at NASA Ames (2010-09-25)
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Eric Eckert and Alexis prepare the Mirage rocket at NASA Ames (2010-09-25)
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Alexis trying to make Mozzarella (2010-10-01)
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Aneesh Chopra, first Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States (CTO) and Asha Jadeja at a Rajeev Circle event. Peter attends the monthly startup mentor events. (2010-10-06)
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Halloween at our front door (2010-10-31)
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Metzgete event of Peninsula Swiss Club (2010-11-06)
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First Fondue dinner of the season at Dan Kikinis' home. (2010-12-05)
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Alexis and Peter night skiing at Boreal near Donner Pass (2010-12-23)
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Michael Sun at the summit of Mt. Rose, with Lake Tahoe in background (2010-12-24)
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At Mt. Rose: Mengyi Xu, Ladina, Charlie Sun, Alexis, Peter, Kyle Sun, Ringo Leung, Michel Sun (2010-12-24)
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At King Buffet in Reno: Alexis, Kyle, Charlie, Ladina (2010-12-24)
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Ladina on snowboard at summit of Alpine Meadows (2010-12-25)
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Aunty Rebecca Che and Uncle Raymond Che at Hong Kong Saigon Restaurant (2010-12-26)
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Dim Sum at Hong Kong Saigon in Sunnyvale, CA (2010-12-26)
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