User:Sharihareswara (WMF)/archivedectmeetings Sep2013

Deployments
Any others?
 * HTTPS: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-August/127830.html "[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia and the politics of encryption"
 * "My main suggestion is to organize a broad request for comments and input on possible paths forward."
 * HTTPS followup tickets: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=53703,53651,53681,53636,31369,53538,53536

VisualEditor & Guillaume transitioning back to ECT
monthly report

IEG and tech projects
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG
 * some teams, e.g. Language, *want* to collaborate in this way with volunteers/grantees
 * what if a non-WMF maintainer is ok with committing as a reviewer?
 * TODO: Sumana to respond to Siko/Quim
 * TODO: Sumana to respond to Siko/Quim

Contract help for ECT for this autumn

 * TODO: Sumana to share with ECT/Chris

General coordination

 * Global South strategy- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/WMF%27s_New_Global_South_Strategy.pdf - Focus Areas and Languages

India (English, Indic languages)

Brazil (Portuguese)

Philippines (English, Tagalog, Cebuano?)

Argentina (Spanish)

Mexico (Spanish)

Indonesia* (Bahasa, English)

Turkey* (Turkish)

Egypt* (Modern Standard Arabic)

Vietnam* (Vietnamese)

Tech Days: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/WMF_Tech_Days_2013

Mentorship programs
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/status & https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013
 * How is GSoC going?
 * 8 students published August report so far. Quim will ping the rest. About 3 projects need special attention - the rest seem to be progressing towards completion.

Next EU Hackathon

 * In Switzerland? Wikimedia CH has stepped in. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events/upcoming#2014_2 - Wikimedia NL is not planning to organize it in Amsterdam next year (long story).

Conferences, dates
Conferences & deadlines: Time off:
 * September all-hands
 * Grace Hopper in early October in Minneapolis
 * Diversity conference 9-10 November in Berlin - please register by Sept. 18 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference
 * FOSDEM - Quim contacted the organizers to check whether it would be preferrable to have a Wikimedia or a Wiki devroom. Waited for an answer a week, will go for a Wikimedia proposal, open to be changed.
 * Guillaume: real vacation in early October. Dates will be known soon
 * Andre:
 * October Fri04-Mon07: Mozilla Summit 2013
 * likely also "real" vacation for one week in middle to late October,
 * Sumana
 * Traveling tomorrow (Sept 4)
 * Željko:
 * September 5-6, BalCCon, Novi Sad, Serbia
 * early September, 2 weeks in San Francisco
 * September 27-28, CITCON, Turin, Italy
 * November 7, SQA Days, Lviv, Ukraine
 * Chris:
 * possible days off in October

Post all-hands debrief

 * Any useful conversations?
 * UX communication - Sumana & Guillaume
 * Multimedia communication/bug triage - Sumana, Guillaume, & Andre
 * Thinking globally (from Gayle's talk)
 * QA talking with Language + VE re doing some automated tests - no specific plans/dates
 * General "do things in a more sustainable manner" framework for ECT - Quim
 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sustainability_tech_contributors.png

Sumana: Sabbatical planning
(delegating, deferring, dropping)

Conferences, dates
Rachel's OPW internship ends on Monday. Conferences & deadlines: Time off:
 * Rachel will write blog post, mentors will write a separate one
 * LCA
 * http://linux.conf.au/programme/speakers - James Forrester is going to speak re VE
 * Grace Hopper in early October in Minneapolis
 * Diversity conference 9-10 November in Berlin - please register by *this Friday the 20th* if you are coming https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference
 * FOSDEM - Quim contacted the organizers to check whether it would be preferrable to have a Wikimedia or a Wiki devroom. Waited for an answer a week, will go for a Wikimedia proposal, open to be changed.
 * Guillaume: real vacation in early October. Dates are being worked out to minimize disruption
 * Andre:
 * October Fri04-Mon07: Mozilla Summit 2013
 * likely also "real" vacation for one week in middle to late October,
 * Sumana
 * Sabbatical: Sept 27-end of December
 * Željko:
 * September 27-28, CITCON, Turin, Italy
 * November 7, SQA Days, Lviv, Ukraine
 * Chris:
 * possible days off in October