Upstream projects

Our developer community relies on several upstream projects delivering software that we embed in our architecture or our processes. At the same time, our community develops software projects used by others, for which we are their upstream. These links define our location in the free software map, our neighbor communities, and the flows of feedback, patches, and contributors.

Let's identify our upstream projects, our neighbor communities, and the contributors that connect us with them.

Motivation
This is a first step to improve our relations with other communities, to increase the contributions received, and our influence in the projects that matter to us.

Our mid term goals include:
 * identify the projects where we want to see significant development, to the point of sending patches as well
 * identify the communities where Wikimedia should be regularly active and heard
 * identify the people in the Wikimedia and upstream communities that know each other and act as bridge
 * identify organizations and events we should get in touch and be part of
 * get involved in bigger development efforts regularly, become a regular FOSS player

Invented Here
Projects we maintain that we want others to use and contribute to.

Components
Projects that contribute to the architecture of MediaWiki, key extensions, and applications. They are included in the downloadable packages of key Wikimedia projects, or they are identified as required dependencies.

Tools
Projects that contribute to our development process. They are installed in Wikimedia servers and they are used in the release process of key Wikimedia projects.