Architecture Summit 2014/Attendees

23-24 January, 2014

SPUR - 654 Mission Street

San Francisco (CA, USA)

Schedule

 * Call for participants:
 * Application deadline: Tuesday, October 22, 17:00 UTC (10am PDT)
 * Participant announcement: By Thursday, October 31, 2013
 * Initial agenda: By Friday, November 22
 * RFC finalization: Friday, December 20, 23:00 UTC (4pm PDT). RFCs not out of draft by this deadline may be cut from the main agenda (we may set aside some unconference time)
 * Summit: Thursday-Friday, January 23-24, 2014

Structure
The basic structure of the architecture summit would be:
 * Put out a call for RFCs for badly needed architectural changes.
 * Cherry pick the most important RFCs for discussion resolution
 * Spend a reasonable amount of time discussing each RFC, attempting to come to consensus about acceptance of the work, or at least about next steps.

Additionally, we may spend a portion of the meeting discussing the central architecture document itself, depending on its state come January.

Your feedback about the scope, goals and schedule of the summit are welcome at the discussion page.

Attending
The target audience of this event are mainly project maintainers and other developers involved in Requests for Comment and, in general, the future evolution of MediaWiki and related software components. All participants must specify their current involvement in the MediaWiki project, the RFC(s) that are promoting and the main future topics they want to discuss.

We are tentatively aiming to have around 50-60 people and we have some budget to sponsor travel for accepted participants.

Request format
In order to request an invitation, please add yourself to the list below.

Tips:
 * Be selective and point to what really matters.
 * Link to the RFCs you are promoting or discussing.
 * If your topic doesn't have a RFC yet, please create it. Drafts are fine for a start.


 * 1) Your Name, organization, location. --~
 * 2) * Role: What role will you fill at the summit?
 * 3) * RFCs commented: What RFCs have you already commented on?
 * 4) * RFCs to discuss: What RFCs or other issues do you believe are the most important ones to discuss?
 * 5) * How I'll help: what volunteering tasks are you willing to take? (e.g. notetaking, shepherding follow-up discussions, prototyping). Please be specific.

Requests

 * 1) Rob Lanphier, Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco. RobLa-WMF (talk) 21:22, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * 2) * Role: Facilitating, probably some notetaking, quite possibly moderating at least some of the discussion
 * 3) * RFCs commented: mainly Architecture guidelines
 * 4) * RFCs to discuss: Parsoid/Roadmap, TitleValue, Global scripts
 * 5) * How I'll help: moderation, facilitation, and and notetaking primarily
 * 6) Tomasz Finc, Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco
 * 7) * Role: Highlighting mobile development needs
 * 8) * RFCs commented: mainly internal team discussions
 * 9) * RFCs to discuss: Deprecating inline styles
 * 10) * How I'll help: Providing perspective for features based initiatves
 * 11) Mark Holmquist, Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco
 * 12) * Role: Representing Multimedia team's needs, wearing front-end developer hat
 * 13) * RFCs commented: None really, but participated in offline discussions
 * 14) * RFCs to discuss: Image information, Support for user-specific page lists in core, likely others as discussion plays out
 * 15) * How I'll help: Could do note-taking and help with prototyping maybe.
 * 16) Tyler Romeo, N/A, New York Parent5446 (talk) 23:47, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * 17) * Role: Discussing RFC designs, commenting on current proposals, ensuring security is taken into account
 * 18) * RFCs commented: Password requirements, Clean up URLs, maybe others
 * 19) * RFCs to discuss: Login security, AuthStack, Password requirements, Deprecating inline styles
 * 20) * How I'll help: Prototyping solutions, editing RFCs for clarification
 * 21) Gabriel Wicke, Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco.
 * 22) * Role: Discuss Parsoid, storage services, HTML only wikis, ESI caching, packaging, ..
 * 23) * RFCs commented: Parsoid/Roadmap, Clean up URLs, Deprecating inline styles, Allow styling in templates, Partial page caching, API roadmap, DataStore
 * 24) * RFCs to discuss: Parsoid/Roadmap, User:GWicke/Notes/Storage (RFC in development), Partial page caching, TitleValue
 * 25) * How I'll help: Present current implementation status and prototypes, discuss next steps and long-term vision, provide feedback on RFCs and help edit them.
 * 26) Dan Garry, Wikimedia Foundation, Manchester, United Kingdom.
 * 27) * Role: Representing the platform engineering team, in particular MediaWiki Core. Discussing platform projects with people from other teams.
 * 28) * RFCs commented: None at present. Tim made me aware of the RfCs recently, and has asked me to get involved.
 * 29) * RFCs to discuss: Unsure at present. See above.
 * 30) * How I'll help: Will do a talk giving an overview of platform and each project that's being worked on.
 * 31)  Howie Fung, Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco
 * 32) * Role: Observer
 * 33) * RFCs commented: None
 * 34) * RFCs to discuss: None
 * 35) * How I'll help: Happy to help out in whatever capacity the team needs.
 * 36) Daniel Kinzler (WMDE) (talk)
 * 37) * Role: Senior Developer at the Wikidata project
 * 38) * RFCs commented: -/-
 * 39) * RFCs to discuss: TitleValue
 * 40) * How I'll help: Provide insight into the best practices and experiences at the Wikidata project.
 * 41) Nik Everett, Wikimedia Foundation, Raleigh, NC, USA
 * 42) * Role: Developer
 * 43) * RFCs commented: Thumbnails URL Shortener (via IRC I think) LESS CirrusSearch (my baby) Scoping CSS
 * 44) * RFCs to discuss: I have none at this point.
 * 45) * How I'll help: Hopefully insightful comments.
 * 46) Chad
 * 47) * Role: Developer
 * 48) * RFCs commented: Configuration database, Extension release management
 * 49) * RFCs to discuss: Drop actions in favour of page views and special pages, Abstract table definitions
 * 50) * How I'll help: I'm opinionated :)
 * 51) Bryan Davis, Wikimedia Foundation, Boise, Idaho.  BDavis (WMF) (talk) 22:52, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * 52) * Role: Developer, "Outsider" perspective
 * 53) * RFCs commented: -/-
 * 54) * RFCs to discuss: Simplify thumbnail cache (author)
 * 55) * How I'll help: Comments, Questions, Other duties as assigned
 * 56) Jon Robson, Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco (User:jdlrobson)
 * 57) * Role: Developer
 * 58) * RFCs to discuss: January is a while away so it's hard to say but Styling in templates and RL template support (to be written up)
 * 59) Chris Steipp, WMF, San Francisco
 * 60) * Role: Security perspective, platform's needs, developer
 * 61) * RFCs commented: Allow styling in templates, Alternative Commons Domains
 * 62) * RFCs to discuss: Login security, AuthStack, Deprecating inline styles
 * 63) * How I'll help: Contribute to the conversation
 * 64) (you)
 * 65) * Role:
 * 66) * RFCs commented:
 * 67) * RFCs to discuss:
 * 68) * How I'll help:

Organization
Coordination: Rob Lanphier. He controls the budget and bootstraps the committee.

Committee: Mark Bergsma, Tim Starling, Brion Vibber, Arthur Richards, Roan Kattouw and maybe more. They accept participants and drive the schedule.

Logistics: Rachel Farrand and Quim Gil.