MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Meetings/2014-09-26 Telco

Purpose
State of the tasks and communitcation structures

Time and place
26 September, 2014 at 4 PM UTC


 * Dial in
 * Google Hangout
 * IRC.

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


 * Attendees (for real)
 * 1) Palexis (talk) 14:16, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) --Mglaser (talk) 14:36, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Agenda

 * 1) Welcome (Markus)
 * 2) State of projects
 * 3) Monitoring roadmap
 * 4) Feature wishlist
 * 5) Publicizing changes in 1.24 (Mark)
 * 6) AffCom application (Markus)
 * 7) Communication structures (Markus)
 * 8) Ideas on fundraising (Markus)
 * 9) Organisational
 * 10) Saturday as possible meeting time
 * 11) Your items (please add your name)
 * 12) Other
 * 13) Closing (Mark)

Minutes
Start: 3:08PM

Attendees

 * Mark Hershberger
 * Alexis Hershberger
 * Richard Heigl
 * Markus Glaser

Monitoring ongoing development

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Cooperation/Tasks/Monitoring
 * Nothing new

Feature wishlist

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Cooperation/Tasks/Feature_wishlist
 * There are some interesting ideas on that page, esp. about providing content packages.

Publicizing changes in 1.24

 * Mark. Use official twitter account and communication channels to advertise new MediaWiki features. For example reasons why people should update
 * Richard: translate these messages to German
 * Are there other languages we can target? Russian (Natasha Brown), Chinese developer for Mandarin and Cantonese, Spanish, French
 * Find one person per language
 * Use the translation feature on MW.o
 * This is time critical. Start in November before the release.
 * Use official WMF blog as a medium (official announcements are important for media)
 * Write this from a users' perspective
 * ContentHandler and it's possibilities are great and this should be communicated.

AffCom application

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Cooperation/Tasks/Application
 * Application will be submitted on Monday, after finalizing it together with Manuel

Communication structures

 * Markus proposes to use a seperate mailing list (e.g. mediawiki-co-op-l) for coordination of the group
 * We need other ways of informing people that something is happening than mediawiki-l
 * Mark created a Google event

Ideas on fundraising

 * Richard says crowdfunding software focused on MW Developers
 * what software can we use?
 * Not a tool question. Do we have the power and resources?
 * Other sources of funding:
 * apply for grants together with partner
 * Go to large users and see if they want to do this for their corporate social responsibility
 * Try to do cold calls? It is a lot of effort and the expected result is not very high
 * Our ability to raise money also depends on plans for MediaWiki. We should start a conversation with the Foundation about their plans with MediaWiki.

Saturday as possible meeting time

 * We must have a conversation with people of the group about a good time slot.

Other
Meeting closes @ 6:59 PM UTC
 * Next meeting is in three weeks, time and date to be confirmed
 * potentially Friday, October 17th or Saturday, October 18th