Wikimedia Technical Conference/2019/PCUpdates

The Program Committee will begin posting updates from our weekly meeting around where we are in the planning process. The updates will include links to Phab tasks when we get to a stage where we could use input around session structure / content / etc.

If you have any questions please use the Phab task or this talk page.

Update from 10 September
The Program Committee has moved from meeting every 2 weeks to once a week. Greg has been named Chair of the Program Committee.

Between the last two meetings, we heavily focused on analyzing data from the Wikimedia Technical Conference 2018 Feedback Survey as well as the data that participants provided in this year’s registration form. Specific questions were around session formation and content, event structure, specific topics, how to make the event productive, etc. We should be publishing outcomes and summaries of the content and session outcomes soon, and collecting feedback from participants around the topics before moving forward with assigning sessions to individual owners.

Between now and next week’s meeting, the areas of interest identified from the surveys will be grouped into thematic / track areas. The intention will be that each area will be owned by an individual program committee member. Once those areas are identified we will publish them on the event’s Phab task for comment and feedback.

The program committee will ask session owners to lead sessions a minimum of 1 month in advance of the conference. We are working with notetakers and facilitators already around templates and plans.