MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Meetings/2015-01-10 Telco

Purpose

 * previous meeting
 * 5th Telco, 7. November 2014
 * 6th Telco, 5. December 2014

Time and Place
10 January, 2015 at 3 PM UTC


 * Dial in
 * Google Hangout


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


 * Attendees (for real)
 * Attendees

Agenda

 * 1) Welcome
 * 2) Specification for opt-in registration: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_check_and_opt-in_site_reporting
 * 3) UPCOMING! US Hackathon Developer Summit 2015 (invitation only)
 * 4) San Francisco, California, USA, January 26 -27
 * 5) To register: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015
 * 6) State of projects
 * 7) Feature wishlist (Google Code-in students may work on this, too.)
 * 8) Roadmap
 * 9) Publicizing 1.24
 * 10) Future conferences for a track
 * 11) SMWCon Spring 2015
 * 12) * St. Louis, MO, USA, May 6-8
 * 13) * Location and accommodation information are available at: SMWCon Spring 2015
 * 14) European Hackathon 2015
 * 15) * Lyon, France, May 23-25
 * 16) * Location and accommodation information are available at: Lyon Hackathon 2015
 * 17) Wikimania 2015
 * 18) * Mexico City, July 15-19
 * 19) * Location and accommodation information are available at: Wikimania Mexico City
 * 20) SMWCon Fall 2015, TBD, most likely in October/November
 * 21) Other
 * 22) Closing

Minutes

 * Attendees: Natasha, Cindy, Mark, Markus, Alexis

Next challenge: Knowledge exchange

 * Now we're recognized. Next task: exchange, build up community
 * Saturdays as special event days (once a quarter)
 * Allow experts to showcase their work + QA
 * How can we expand the audience?
 * Set up a permanent hangout
 * Record these sessions
 * First topics
 * Mark: could be migrate XML to Content Handler
 * WikiEM: content offline
 * There are several others
 * Two topics per session (maybe expand this to two hours and 4 topics later on)
 * Matching different levels of skills to developers and user base
 * Provide for a mixed level of skills by having

US Hackathon Developer Summit 2015 (invitation only)

 * San Francisco, California, USA, January 26 -27
 * To register: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015
 * Who's coming?
 * Cindy, Mark, Markus, Siebrand, Legoktm, Niklas
 * Mark will put on schedule as stakeholder meeting
 * Schedule early and use this to go over the meeting agenda to see where we have stakes or special positions

State of projects

 * Feature wishlist (Google Code-in students may work on this, too.)
 * code-in to end in couple weeks, but want to expand this to allow other volunteers to finish work
 * Roadmap - nothing
 * Publicizing 1.24 - nothing

Future conferences for a track

 * SMWCon Spring 2015
 * St. Louis, MO, USA, May 6-8
 * Location and accommodation information are available at: SMWCon Spring 2015
 * European Hackathon 2015
 * Lyon, France, May 23-25
 * Location and accommodation information are available at: Lyon Hackathon 2015
 * Wikimania 2015
 * Mexico City, July 15-19
 * Location and accommodation information are available at: Wikimania Mexico City
 * SMWCon Fall 2015, TBD, most likely in October/November
 * Cindy can go to Lyon and bring a couple people (Bernadette and junior developers)
 * Natasha has to see
 * Mark will go

Specification for opt-in registration

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_check_and_opt-in_site_reporting
 * Discussed, accepted, and Mark will implememt in next couple months
 * Is it possible to get non-public information? Inside firewall, outside firewall