Engineering Community Team/Meetings

The Engineering Community Team organizes two public monthly meetings, always on Tuesday at 17:00 UTC: Check the Calendar for details about the next meetings.
 * ECT Showcase (last Tuesday of the month) - Showing completed tasks and sharing short term plans. Video hangout + streaming.
 * ECT Office Hour (second Tuesday of the month) - Pre-scheduled topics followed by Q&A. IRC.

We also schedule videoconferencing team meetings for the remaining Tuesdays. Their notes are also published here. If you'd like to attend please send us a request.

Meeting notes

 * For meetings hosted before October 2013, see User:Sumanah/archivedtldrmeetings

Anything relevant discussed beyond the review of goals.

2013-11-12
ECT IRC meeting at 17:00 UTC via

Meeting notes and IRC logs. (Backup copy)

Topics:
 * FOSS Outreach Program for Women
 * Google Code-in
 * Engineering Community team quarterly review

2013-10-29
ECT Showcase meeting at 16:00 UTC via Google Hangout http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Gl-oR2ucU Use to send your questions & feedback.

Featuring:


 * Google Code-in ideas page. Qgil
 * Technical communications/What you can do? guillom
 * GSoC & FOSS OPW wrap-up presentation and lessons learned. Qgil
 * Community metrics: Who contributes code. Álvaro del Castillo
 * New guided bug entry form for Bugzilla newcomers -- andre
 * InlineHistory in Bugzilla, showing metadata changes between the lines -- andre
 * Tech/News — has resumed a weekly publication schedule, is translated into at least half a dozen languages every week. guillom
 * Pywikibot migrated from Sourceforge to Bugzilla; import script by Legoktm, imported 400 tickets, triaged 100 tickets over the weekend -- andre
 * Wikis devroom @ FOSDEM accepted (call for participation). Qgil
 * https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology/ and Technical communications/Tech blog activity . guillom
 * New experimental process for Engineering Community Team/Meetings. Qgil

2013-10-22
Google Code-in (selection by Google by Nov. 1; program starts on Nov 18; then it lasts about 7 weeks, until Jan. 6)
 * We're going to apply; this is about many many small tasks, each one taking ~2-3 days for a 13-17yo student to complete during their free time
 * Programming: only 1 of the 5 areas of this program. An opportunity for other areas: QA, doc, marketing, design
 * No critical mass last year
 * ECT, QA and Design teams are the only ones concerned at the moment; other teams aren't really prepared for this yet. We may involve them later on during the program, when we/they see progress on other tasks
 * Mentors must respond/review tasks within 36h, and ideally within 24h
 * < Discussion about QA's involvement in google Code-in >
 * Andre: triage-related tasks.
 * Guillaume: Can think of 3 tasks at the moment, one is recurring every week so that makes a few more, another one can be reused a few times as well
 * Quim suggests: Documentation pages to update (use outdated or similar), writing small tutorials (step by step), screencasts, etc. Guillaume will ask the Liaisons team
 * Quim: will find community management-related tasks

Other topics:
 * pywikipediabot bug day
 * ECT Showcase, if there is anything to plan.
 * Things Guillaume may have missed that you really want him to know :)

2013-10-15
Full log.
 * We agreed to prepare Wikimedia's application to the Google Code-in program:
 * qgil: set up Google Code-in page and Google Form with the info agreed here so far
 * qgil: agree participation with QA, UX
 * qgil: coordinate with ECT for outreach tasks
 * andre__ and qgil : triage EASY bugs focusing on code and documentation.
 * We agreed to use try MeetBot in the next ECT meeting on IRC. Instructions.
 * andre__ and qgil to focus first on Google Code-in, and then plan Bug of the Week on November, according to the results obtained.
 * Guide to plan monthly goals: what completed tasks do you want to show at the showcase meeting?

Experimenting with ECT meetings

 * Quim: would like to work more as a team. We're working well as individuals at the moment, and it's working well overall, but we might be able to work even better together


 * Also, we ought to work more closely with liaisons, community advocacy and the communications team at the WMF


 * And work more closely with "the community" (discussion about what this entails exactly)


 * Monthly check-in: what did we do, and what would we like to do. (reuse monthly report)
 * i.e. like quarterly review, but more lightweight and monthly. Also relates to Rob's wish of getting that monthly showcase of what was done.
 * And liaisons / LCA / Comms could be invited to that monthly retrospective / sync-up
 * One public Google hangout per month; two week later office hour on IRC
 * Release management and QA have now their own meeting. Still invited optionally to ECT meetings and we are open to topics proposed by them.