MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Meetings/2015-01-26 Meeting

Purpose

 * Discuss the state of the group and a shift in focus

Time and Place
26 January, 2015 at 7:15 PM UTC


 * Dial in
 * none


 * Whiteboard
 * http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/MWDS15-MediaWiki-Stakeholders-Group


 * Attendees (for real)
 * Mark
 * Markus
 * Siebrand
 * Greg
 * Legoktm
 * Isarra
 * Cindy
 * Niklas
 * CSteipp
 * Quim
 * Mukunda
 * add yourself if you were there

Agenda

 * 1) Welcome
 * 2) Introduction of the group: What we are and where we're heading
 * 3) Current state
 * 4) Possible shift in strategic focus: Advisory and educational
 * 5) Infrastructure
 * 6) Other
 * 7) Closing

Minutes

 * Markus explains what the MW Stakeholders Group is doing (he has slides, should be uploaded somewhere)
 * Monitors development roadmap
 * Application to AffCom
 * Set up a developer exchange
 * Development wishlist / roadmap
 * Set up tasks on Phabricator
 * Extension documentation on mw.o
 * Re-focus (Markus proposes)
 * We are probably diverting too much. If we would be lobbying for only one reason, what would it be?
 * Mark: Extension / Content bundle?
 * We are not discussing. How to start?
 * mediawiki-l could be the mailing to discuss
 * Mark: what if we start discussing the extension bundle the idea in mediawiki-l?
 * Legoktm: we would need to discuss first whether that is a good idea?
 * Csteipp: as a 3rd party user you don't get any communiation when there are changes of big impact coming.
 * Isarra: Is there a way to communicate these announcements?
 * Mukunda: a MediaWiki Planet?
 * Siebrand? a tag log in i.e. Wikipedia planet?
 * ACTION: Publish major release announcements on techblog (Greg G on point)
 * We gots a hashtag: #mwstake
 * Wikimedia Foundation support
 * Quim: If you need something, ask. If you don't say anything, we assume you are fine.
 * The group should know what Wikimedia can offer (grants, participation and travel sponsorship to events...)
 * Quim: What about the SemanticMediaWiki community?
 * Markus: we have SMW people in the group, but we don't need to be the single point of contact for 3rd parties.