Wikimedia Developer Summit/2017/Session Guidelines

Guidelines for Goal Setting
These guidelines exists to help each session at the Wikimedia Developer Summit meet the following goals:
 * Have productive discussion about topics that need face-to-face time
 * Make progress towards agreement on a solution
 * Document what was discussed, including areas of agreement and disagreement
 * Create written list of action items for follow up
 * Update or create Phabricator tasks as appropriate

FACILITATOR

 * Your job is to present the topic and keep the discussion moving forward
 * Assign meeting roles: Note-taker(s), Remote Moderator, Advocate (optional)
 * Choose a meeting type:
 * Problem-solving: surveying many possible solutions
 * Strawman: exploring one specific solution
 * Field narrowing: narrowing down choices of solution
 * Consensus: coming to agreement on one solution
 * Education: teaching people about an agreed solution
 * Identify agenda items and guide discussion to stay on topic

NOTE-TAKER(S)

 * Your job is to record agenda items, areas of agreement and disagreement, action items, etc
 * Take notes using Etherpad. Copy the template into a new Etherpad file with "YourSession" replaced with the name of your session:https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/devsummit17-YourSession
 * Fill out the information in the template
 * After the session, DO NOT FORGET to:
 * Copy relevant notes and add a concise summary of the session into a new wiki page with "YourSession" replaced with the name of your session: Wikimedia Developer Summit/2017/Your Session
 * Add any useful action items into the Phabricator task
 * Add the Wiki and Etherpad link to 'Session notes' section (add if missing) on Phabricator task description and All Session Notes page on MediaWiki
 * Note: Preferred number of note-takers: 2(min) & 3(max). We do not encourage everyone to multi-task during the sessions

REMOTE MODERATOR

 * Your job is to facilitate discussion among remote participants via IRC channel  or  (different for concurrent sessions)
 * You will interject on behalf of remote participants and address their questions directly to speakers during the session Q&A
 * Learn more about remote participation here

ADVOCATE (OPTIONAL)

 * Your job is to actively manage participation and keep people aware of time and help them use it productively
 * Periodically step into the discussion and see if people who haven’t said anything yet would like to
 * Politely interrupt people who have been talking too long
 * Redirect discussion back on-topic if it gets derailed
 * Estimate the time needed for each agenda item and tell people if they are going over the time
 * Give a warning at 5-10 minutes left
 * At the end of the session, interrupt and tell people the session is officially over
 * If people want to continue the discussion, ask them to move out of the room