User:Sharihareswara (WMF)/archivedectmeetings Aug2013

Wikimania
https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Submissions/Transparency_and_collaboration_in_Wikimedia_engineering (Sumana, Quim, Andre) & https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Improving_MediaWiki_quality:_How_everybody_can_help_with_bug_report_triaging (Andre) https://metrics.wmflabs.org/ - Sumana to ask Analytics to blog about this
 * next year's: lots of bigdata/UX outreach planned by WM 2014
 * Tech/News & release notes - revamping/rethinking. Make tech news more "how this affects users", roll release notes into tech news?  Need to take care re overwhelming Tech/News; only put in breaking changes/big things....
 * Tomasz (volunteer) is taking wikibreak; Guillaume recruiting - Andrew Gray?
 * The site's security certificate is not trusted! it should probably be http, not https (http://metrics.wmflabs.org/) -- yes, with the new CentralAuth you're going to get security warnings for all labs hosts

Community metrics
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-August/071157.html
 * Key community metrics to influence our plans

Next Wikimedia Tech meetup
next time: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2013-14_Goals#Wikimedia_Technical_Community
 * http://www.meetup.com/wikimedia-tech/events/119408822/ - Wednesday, August 21 -- topic missing but Quim has one idea: a Flow prototype live demo / workshop - t get direct user feedback?
 * If there is no time to agree this with the Flow team then we will postpone until we have a good plan.
 * Fabrice - Multimedia roundtable?

Conferences, dates
Other conference deadlines:
 * September all-hands: tickets?
 * TODO: Sumana to ask Doreen
 * Guillaume: possibly a couple days off in September; will provide tentative dates as soon as they're known
 * Andre:
 * October Fri04-Mon07: Mozilla Summit 2013
 * Sumana
 * Željko:
 * August 16-18, eurucamp/JRubyConf EU Workshop, Berlin, German
 * a day or two off in the middle of August
 * September 6-7, BalCCon, Novi Sad, Serbia
 * from early September, 2-4 weeks in San Francisco
 * September 27-28, CITCON, Turin, Italy
 * November 7, SQA Days, Lviv, Ukraine
 * Chris:
 * Aug 23 PTO
 * possible days off in October
 * linux.conf.au
 * Quim submitted a proposal for a talk.
 * Željko did the same.
 * FOSDEM - with Siebrand, Quim is chasing FOSDEM people :) - as soon as there is a call for devrooms/booths Quim will start discussion