MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Meetings/2014-08-22 Telco

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Purpose[edit]

This is our first online meeting. We should finalize the application for recognition and agree on the format of future meetings.

Time and place[edit]

22 August, 2014 at 6:00 PM UTC

Dial in
  • Google Hangout
  • IRC (#mw-co-op connect).
Whiteboard

http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wiki-Co-Op

Attendees (for real)
  1. --Mglaser (talk) 00:35, 22 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  2. --Palexis (talk) 16:31, 22 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agenda[edit]

  1. Welcome (Markus)
  2. Proposed finalized version of the application (Markus)
  3. Outreach: Who shall be invited to be involved? (Mark)
  4. Tasks (Markus)
  5. Spokesperson and action committees (Mark)
  6. Future meetings: purpose, frequency, schedule, modality (Markus)
  7. Other
  8. Closing (Mark)
  9. Your items (please add your name)

Minutes[edit]

Present:

on Video call

  • Markus Glaser
  • Mark Hershberger
  • Siebrand Mazeland
  • Alexis Hershberger
  • Legoktm
  • Edlira Dushku
  • Emufarmers (Benjamin Lees)
  • Cindy Cicalese
  • Natasha Brown

on IRC

  • FoxxT
  • illuminatusds
  • Rach123

Meeting starts at 18:04 UTC

Agenda[edit]

  • Welcome (Markus)
  • Proposed finalized version of the application (Markus)
  • Outreach: Who shall be invited to be involved? (Mark)
  • Tasks (Markus)
  • Spokesperson and action committees (Mark)
  • Future meetings: purpose, frequency, schedule, modality (Markus)
  • Other
  • Closing (Mark)

Welcome[edit]

  • Everyone introduces themselves

Finalized version of the proposal[edit]

  • This need to be a bit more verbose. Someone (TM) prepare a "more text" version which we then submit
  • Send mail to mediawiki-l about it so we can get last minute input where needed.
  • Next Friday

Outreach[edit]

Tasks[edit]

  • do-ocracy
  • One task could be
    • Monitor roadmap
    • Code review for extensions and core changes from extension developers (List of people). Raise awareness for this.
    • Backporting priorities and indications

Spokesperson and action committee[edit]

  • Mark and Markus to be the spokespersons
  • Action committees
    • Monitor roadmap: Legoktm and Markus

Future of meetings[edit]

  • Video or IRC?
  • Video for discussions
  • IRC for doing the actual work
  • One more video meeting in 14 days
  • Monthly video meetings from then on

Other[edit]

  • What do people expect to get from this?
    • In 18 months time we have two conferences about MediaWiki (in in North America, one in Europe), engage 100k system administrators to get involved
    • Create business opportunities for independent software developers
    • When i first started using mw, there wa s a lot of documentation, spread about. What I needed was someone else to point me at stuff (you know, like anti-spam stuff that is fairly common), and give a steer to new adopters
    • Contribute to extensions
    • Then also to be able to have a convo wit mw devs about the roadmap and whether this would have effects on current running systems (like plans for php version min reqs etc,)
    • The next time I upgrade my wiki farm nothing breaks
    • Contributing back to the mediawiki ecosystem
    • Keep an eye on development affecting third party users
    • MediaWiki to be better than Wordpress, Google and Facebook!

Closing[edit]

Meeting closes at 18:50 UTC

Future Meeting Dates[edit]

Regular meetings will be held on every first Friday of the month.

User Group
Meeting Dates
2016-05-06 (Friday)
2016-06-03 (Friday)
2016-07-01 (Friday)
2016-08-05 (Friday)
2016-09-02 (Friday)
2016-09-28 (during SMWCon Fall 2016 in Frankfurt)
2016-10-07 (Friday)
2016-11-04 (Friday)
2016-12-02 (Friday)

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