Meetings/2012-10-18

What is it: Frequent (weekly?) open meetings of the Wikimedia technology community to discuss technical issues, architectural challenges and process improvements.

How does it work: We're trying a combination of Google Hangout on Air (an open YouTube stream from the 6th floor of the WMF office) + potential additional Hangout guest speakers + IRC for text-based communication. There's no attendance limit.

When: October 18, 2012, 19:30 UTC (12:30 pacific time), 60-90 mins

First topic
Suggestion: How do we integrate and deploy code? How do we grant deployer permission, and who do we grant it to? Is our deployment tooling good enough, and if not, how can we improve it (who will help)? What do other organizations (e.g. GitHub, Facebook, Mozilla) do that we don't?

Suggestion: How can we hold meetings remotely without relying on non-free software? Mutante suggested OpenMeetings, and Mumble is good for voice chat.... --MarkTraceur (talk) 06:29, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Attendees
Sign up below:
 * 1) Eloquence (talk) 03:17, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 2) S Page (WMF) (talk) 04:18, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 3) MarkTraceur (talk) 06:29, 5 October 2012 (UTC) (only on IRC, G+ is no good)
 * 4) Chris McMahon (talk)
 * 5) LWelling (talk) 15:41, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 6) Tychay (talk) 17:48, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 7) Dan Andreescu (talk).  I propose we talk about git-flow now that we're on git, I can give a quick overview.

ToDos

 * Chip is on the AV setup -Tychay (talk) 18:15, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Should probably reserve the colllab space and create an entry in the engineering calendar (at least for the first one)