Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2013-05-21

Tech ambassadors
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors
 * TODO: Sumana to give Guillaume some names/email of people to test this out

Tech weekly news
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Latest Tech/News may have a little too much to read to explore -- move "read latest news" higher up? Will it be translated before posting to village pumps? Already done: contact the Signpost-like publications. In a month: contact again those who have not subscribed yet
 * a volunteer helped a lot
 * lots of little tweaks that will make the next ones easier
 * Guillaume has reached out to a lot of people to suggest they subscribe or contribute, including Signpost-like entities
 * suggestion: crowdsource monitoring of important tech changes
 * next: blog post
 * 5 or 6 complete translations of the first issue!
 * Guillaume's involvement to gradually drop lower
 * first version was posted to VP on all wikis with a note saying "just this first one will be posted here" - people can subscribe so it's posted to a community page or a talkpage
 * look at subscribers - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors 70+ pages will get this every week
 * next time: translation before distribution
 * Different communities will want different tradeoffs. Ask McBride whether he could add a feature to global distro bot: if there's an existing translation, even incomplete, bot posts translation?  But that would be complicated, moreso than current setup
 * They choose whether they want en version directly posted on VP (distribution list)

Amsterdam prep
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013

misc
wikimedia-l thread/rules for volunteers' participation: Andre figuring out policy re adminship in BZ, groups - aim for early June for having a policy stated https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar Next week: Quim to consider how to work with intern re June testing activities
 * If you think we should work with an org please add it to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Organizations (Talk page also good). Quim.
 * Just highlighting the new look&feel of https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce - feedback welcome. Quim.

Other conferences/dates

 * Guillaume possibly a couple days off in June or July; will provide tentative dates as soon as they're known
 * Andre:
 * Holidays (BE/NL) May Mon20-Thu23 -- any replacement available? Quim maybe? I'll be here--Quim
 * likely in SF from Jun Tue11-Mon17
 * OpenSourceBridge (Portland/Oregon) Jun Tue18-Fri21
 * Sumana
 * Wed & Fri May 15 & 17 off
 * a little vacation before & after Amsterdam
 * Some time traveling or training in June, + OSBridge
 * Quim vaguely thinking on some holidays in July. Specific dates coming soon.
 * Željko:
 * May 15-17, DORS/CLUC 2013, Zagreb, Croatia
 * May 18-23, vacation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * May 24-26, Wikimedia Hackathon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * June 10-12, Selenium Conference, Boston, MA, USA
 * August 16-18, eurucamp, Berlin, Germany (maybe, waiting for reply if my talk is accepted)
 * September 6-7, BalCCon, Novi Sad, Serbia (maybe, waiting for reply if my talk is accepted)
 * Chris:
 * May 24-26, Wikimedia Hackathon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * Aug 4-10 Agile2013 - "radically open software testing"