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

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

Time and place
22 August, 2014 at 6:00 PM UTC


 * Dial in
 * Google Hangout
 * IRC.

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


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

Agenda

 * 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 =

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

 * 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

 * Everyone introduces themselves

Finalized version of the proposal

 * 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

 * Feel free to invite more people
 * Suggest people to invite to Mark
 * Point people to Wiki-Co-Op page
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Co-op

Tasks

 * 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

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

Future of meetings

 * 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

 * 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
Meeting closes at 18:50 UTC
 * Mailinglist: mediawiki-l. Please use mail tags [wiki co-op]
 * Please sign https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Wiki_Co-op#Contributors if you haven't already.