Wikimedia Apps/Team/2013-01-14-Kickoff

= Talking points =

Goals

 * 1,000 mobile upload(ers) <-- active goal
 * 4billion page views <-- passive goal [partner team, organic growth]

In-progress

 * i18n work status (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_i18n/Android & iOS - http://yuvi.in/indic-typing/index.html )
 * Android Java IME - should be doneish in a weekish

Curent State

 * Current state of apps (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile/Release_history#Apps)
 * finish pushing the legal updates [brion]
 * android -- use 1.3 branch [brion or yuvi?]
 * playbook app - [brion]
 * win8 app - [brion]
 * WLM App taken off TWN

Photo Uploads

 * Current backlog for photo uploads
 * https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/1Yr4nZ0BT3Pb7DyoqDL4N-dv6SMx_A650OELx8z0DBJE/edit#slide=id.p56
 * Volunteer efforts
 * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vTBGjRH1g95mZExkf7ZxNwO1uZxaFuNkn0a0uKlsoaE/edit

Organization

 * How is product involved
 * Monthly Showcase
 * How is design involved
 * Brion needs general consult on designs [look and feel] -- style guidelines
 * Brion -> give design a heads-up that we have native app mockups coming
 * How is QA involved?
 * beta testing
 * community testing (check michelle's availability)

Process

 * How were going to break up our work
 * Standups, meetings etc
 * stick with the full mobile team standups
 * weekly for apps team
 * "think in iterations" -- keep informal timeboxing! don't go crazy
 * Timezones

Hiring

 * there's a couple iOS exercises for Brion to review today/tomorrow

ToDo's

 * Start with work on the Commons Android app as high priority
 * Work on iOS Commons app [Brion]
 * Expect another maintenance release or two of the PG apps, but no major development (consider them dead for the most part)
 * Concentrate on new native ports of PG app later....?
 * port some of the microcontributions after/in coord with mobile web?


 * consider sustainability in campaigns etc -- not just spikes [Yuvi]
 * decentralize the CTAs?


 * Set platform version cut off for apps
 * iOS [Brion]
 * *probably* 5.0+
 * Android [Yuvi]
 * 2.2 ?