Wikimedia Engineering/WMF Tech Days 2013/Brainstorming

General discussion/workshop topics:
 * [Aa]gile, spreading lessons learned
 * This is being done on day 2 in the appreciative inquiry session.--Eloquence (talk) 23:56, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
 * How we are doing against the goals we've set for ourselves and the board
 * Architecture discussion - checkin (RfCs)
 * Design across device classes - Vector, etc. on tablets, handsets, & desktop
 * Design direction and consistency - Agora, new Jared Agora, building CSS with LESS, revising the font stack
 * Lessons learned re mentorship programs
 * Engineering career pathing at WMF
 * Local FLOSS communities - building your network
 * Narrative chalk talks about how we built important components/systems, how to hack on them
 * Help for interviewing candidates/hiring
 * Lightning talks
 * Inter-team communication
 * Writing and maintaining translatable user documentation for features

Tutorials:
 * Mobile dev tutorial - make yr work work w mobile
 * Deployment boot camp/tutorial
 * Big and small data - tutorial (e.g. EventLogging, other parts of infrastructure)
 * Varnish-related topics - tutorial
 * Packaging guidelines - debianization
 * Puppetization (repeat of 2012)
 * git-deploy / sartoris
 * Automated browser tests
 * Frontend JS bootcamp
 * performance/profiling tutorial - repeat of 2012
 * vagrant best practices tutorial
 * Javascript documentation with JSDuck or alternative