2012 Wikimedia fundraiser/status

Last update on: 2012-07-27

2012-02-29
Adding support for recurring GlobalCollect donations was the primary engineering focus in February, with work on this functionality carrying over into March. Several deployments were made to the payments cluster to better our form localization in several countries in Africa. A subset of those forms were used in a week-long banner and landing page test that also ran in February. A great deal of effort was expended in February in the name of building out the team by two more people; The search for new fundraising engineers is ongoing.

2012-03-31
The team continued to work on GlobalCollect recurring donations, with the code review remaining to be done. They also engaged in cleanup after an eventually successful upgrade of our production instance of CiviCRM from 3.4 to 4.1.1, the migration to git, and Mingle training. There was an issue with an imbalance of chargebacks, due to a spinning down of the Winter fundraising flagging fraud in GlobalCollect, that was resolved.

2012-04-monthly
The fundraising team deployed GlobalCollect recurring functionality, and started transition to using Git and Gerrit for its software development process. They wrote the burn up chart for the next fundraising round. The team is still working on adding staff.

2012-05-monthly
The fundraising team developed and deployed new filters to help identify and stop fraudulent transactions. In addition, the team made employment offers to two candidates that were accepted. The new staff will be integrated to the team, which will be fully staffed before Wikimania.

2012-06-monthly
Onboarded Adam Wight to the team. GlobalCollect recurring is now code complete (now in code review). Integrated with Yandex through GlobalCollect. Finished migration of payments deployment to Git.

2012-07-27
We onboarded Matt Walker to the team. Progress was made on enhancements to CiviCRM that enable Finance and other departments to get relevant metrics and reports more easily. Katie Horn traveled to Wikimania and gave a presentation about the fundraising infrastructure.

More details: 
 * Sprint 5 - A new fiscal year
 * Sprint 6 - Hello Matt, and Wikimania!
 * Sprint 7 - Auditing and Reconciliation

2012-07-monthly
We onboarded Matt Walker to the team. Progress was made on enhancements to CiviCRM that enable Finance and other departments to get relevant metrics and reports more easily. Katie Horn traveled to Wikimania and gave a presentation about the fundraising infrastructure.