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

Quarterly goals - review
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2013-14_Goals#Wikimedia_Technical_Community

Several (6) volunteers know how to contribute to and fix automated tests, and do so regularly, improving our capacity for faster deployments. To improve awareness of Wikimedia's engineering needs, we systematically reach out to FLOSS projects we rely on, and grow Tech Ambassadors membership. Outreach moved to Q3

Regarding the number of volunteers who are actually contributing: several know, but are not necessarily doing so yet
 * https://github.com/wikimedia/qa-browsertests/contributors

Each of our activities has mild success; people joining are getting training, and maybe that's their motivation, rather than regular practicing.
 * For contributors of this type, maybe an October challenge would help
 * Set out ahead of time some one-hour blocks of "we're available to pair during these times"
 * TODO: Chris and Filipin & Quim to move forward
 * Timewise - reduce amount of time spent with Rachel now that she is not an active intern, move to working with new QA volunteers & pairing

https://twitter.com/mozwebqa/status/184726688595329024 https://etherpad.mozilla.org/testday-20120328


 * TODO: hear from Andre about whether amabassadors are helping out (onwiki or on BZ) and whether volunteer bug triage is improving or staying steady (quantitative & qualitative)

Visual Editor & community communication
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#VisualEditor_now_opt-in_only_for_all_users_on_English_Wikipedia
 * Hope to hear more from Guillaume
 * Maybe we need to do better collaborating from beginning, not last mile

ECT meetings until the end of year

 * Sumana's sabbatical + the new release management team meetings bring some changes. Quim is up for some experimentation. Some public hangouts? Some IRC meetings / office hours?
 * Experiments! Maybe an ECT-only meeting

Weekly Annoying Little Bug

 * Andre, please define a date for the kick-off. (Quim)
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_Little_Bug

Separately: "this week, Chris & Filipin will work on #nnn -- join us at time/date!" idea -- QA curated task
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53877 for example

Conferences, dates
Conferences & deadlines:


 * FOSDEM - waiting for resolution on Wiki DevRoom

Time off:
 * Guillaume: real vacation in early October. Dates are being worked out to minimize disruption
 * probably Sept 30-Oct 12?
 * TODO: Quim to check


 * 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

Oct 7 PTO Oct 18 PTO Nov 15 PTO
 * Chris: