Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2014-01-21

2014-01-21
Monthly goals
 * Guillaume
 * January report delayed due to holidays etc, but it is shipped now according to Gerard de Van Hulltz.
 * Tech News is being shipped consistenly with the help of Odder, which is a great step in the way to consolidation. Some WMF product managers are also updating directly. Some progress.
 * Andre
 * Bugzilla 4.4 ready to go; waiting for Daniel, Sean and Andre need to agree on time when to switch database and DNS
 * Stakeholders of "PM tools evaluation" were individually contacted as a reminder to fill out the form
 * Slowly need to move from documenting needs to analyzing answers and decreasing number of candidates
 * Sumana
 * not started FOSDEM prep stuff
 * may move upstream list to Feb
 * In San Francisco in the next following two weeks.
 * Quim
 * GCI winners announced
 * New task, list of WMF employees with travel approval for the Zürich Hackathon 2014

Budget 2014-15, what does this mean for ECT
 * Do we need more people? Do we need more volunteer development budget?
 * Sponsoring volunteers to Wikimedia events, FOSS OPW...