Project:Calendar/How to schedule an event/TechTalks

Nominations/Ideas for future tech talks

 * Design Research in Product Development - Abbey Ripstra - status: committed Oct 22. Details finalized. Waiting to announce.
 * Into to Wikidata - Lydia Pintscher - Status: October 29th, getting talk details from Lydia (WMF Internal Talk)
 * Language Engineering: Content Translation Tool - status: Monday Nov 3 10am-11am PDT with Joel Sahleen & Alolita Sharma. Need abstract from speakers.
 * MediaWiki-Vagrant (and Vagrant in general to the extent there is) with Bryan and Dan. - status: proposed date Nov 24/25
 * Quim Gil/Andre Klapper - Phabricator Update & custom dashboard creation - status: December 3, still needing details


 * The work Analytics engineering are doing and how we could help
 * An understanding of Flow, where it's at and where it's going
 * Where the current pain points for the Fundraising team are - Sherah Smith?
 * on the new visual design for MediaWiki/MediaWiki UI or whatever that library is called these days.
 * QA (Zeljiko? Chris?) about browser testing
 * Daniel Kinzler on core refactoring if Title and other classes.
 * Pau Giner on dos and don'ts in user testing
 * Niklas Laxström on conversing with robots that know Wikipedia (part of his Phd research)
 * Antoine Musso on Jenkins - status: emailed Antoine/Antoine on paternity leave. hold.
 * Moriel Schottlender on right-to-left support (adapting her blog post into a talk)
 * Yuri - Creating Graphs
 * Wikidata - Lydia/Community member - open to all

Past tech talks

 * 06 October, 2014 - The Dashboarding Problem - Dan Andreescu and Nuria Ruiz
 * 24 September, 2014 - The Very Basics of Phabricator - Andre Klapper
 * 29 July, 2014 - HHVM in production: what that means for Wikimedia developers - Paul Tarjan
 * 15 July, 2014 - Hadoop and Beyond. An overview of Analytics infrastructure - Andrew Otto
 * 11 June, 2014 - How, What, Why of WikiFont - May Galloway and Monte Hurd
 * 15 May, 2014 - Elasticsearch - Nik Everett
 * 15 April, 2014 - A preliminary look at Parsoid internals - Subramanya Sastry and Gabriel Wicke