The Hallway Track



The Hallway Track is an initiative from/for people from the technical community to remotely connect with each other.
 * Open to folks who want to get to know others in Wikimedia-Tech
 * Open to folks who want to meet with others they haven’t seen in a while
 * any other good reason :-)

The concept is derived from Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019/SmallGroupDinners

No relation to dinner, but a small group of people talking to each other.

General format

 * 6 people max
 * Bring your own coffee/carrot juice
 * To discuss what we’re working on, new ideas, fun stuff, maybe demo things
 * Virtual, on Jitsi (we’ll try the Wikimedia Jitsi-instance and will fall back to the Jitsi-Jitsi-instance if it doesn’t work) ((Links to follow))

Want to organise a session?
The Code of Conduct for Wikimedia's Technical Spaces will be in effect at The Hallway Track. If you'd like to participate or organise an edition, please review the Code of Conduct & ensure you are willing and able to follow it.
 * Create a Jitsi event and add the date and time to this page
 * Send an invitation to Wikitech-l and/or the Hackathon telegram group/IRC channel - https://t.me/wmhack or
 * Decide if you want to pre-announce a specific topic/theme or just let it go with the flow
 * Think of some good and inclusive ways to start the meeting (i.e. ask everyone to introduce themselves, and if there is anything specific they want to discuss)
 * Think of some (backup) topics you’d like to discuss, to get the conversation going
 * Use Etherpad to take notes if you want to share something with others

First edition: Wednesday, August 12th, 2020, 18:00 UTC
Organisers: Birgit, Addshore

Call link: https://meet.jit.si/mediawiki-hallwaytrack-12-aug-2020

Password: CarrotJuice

If you get stuck leave a message on the talk page, addshore will be monitoring it.

Yes, I’m in! -- waiting list --
 * 1) Addshore
 * 2) Birgit
 * 3) NRuiz (WMF) (talk)
 * 4) Zack
 * 1) Milimetric (sad to be on the waiting list, but don't want to flood with Analytics people)

Future editions
More to come in the future.

Generally interested?
I love the concept but can’t make it to the first edition. Please ping me when the next edition is up!


 * thcipriani
 * Aharoni - Wednesday evenings (European time) are generally not great for me, but very interested in the meetings
 * Masssly
 * SSastry (WMF) (talk)
 * Tgr
 * Sam Wilson – I'd be interested in any time in UTC 0000–0800.
 * Greg (WMF) (talk)