Meetings/2010-03-03


 * Meeting purpose: Wikimedia technology meeting with staff, contractors and volunteers
 * Meeting day: March 3, 2010
 * Meeting time: 9 AM to 5 PM pacific time
 * Location: San Francisco

Attendees

 * All WMF technical and user experience staff listed on http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff
 * Brion Vibber
 * Andrew Garrett (by phone/Skype, from 13:30–15:00). Apologies, I won't be able to make the part that I most wanted to dial in for, as I have lectures at this time.
 * Roan Kattouw (by phone/Skype, from 11:15 AM)
 * Domas Mituzas (by phone/skype/whatever)
 * Jeff Jones - Office IT Manager

Agenda
(tentative, pending confirmations from speakers)

09:00 AM - 09:30 AM - Meeting Opening (Danese)

09:30 AM - 09:45 AM - 2010-11 key investments / capacity planning / Team structure and hiring plans

09:45 AM - 11:00 AM - Operations discussion
 * Backups, fail-over in case of hardware/network outage
 * Monitoring
 * New data-center planning

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM - BREAK

11:15 AM - 12:30 AM - Operations discussion
 * Upcoming usability releases and system resource impact
 * Overview of interaction testing automation

12:30 PM - 13:30 PM - LUNCH

13:30 PM - 15:00 PM - Software Development discussion
 * Feature / development / release roadmap / upcoming deployments
 * m.wikipedia development going forward
 * WMF participation in Google Summer of Code 2010

15:00 PM - 15:15 PM - BREAK

15:15 PM - 17:00 PM - Software development discussion
 * Software development management: Testing / deployment / version control / code review infrastructure
 * Bugzilla/PM discussion (migration to Redmine or other solution?)
 * VCS discussion

18:00 PM - 20:00 PM - Tech Team Dinner (details to follow)

Time Permitting:
 * State of office IT security/roadmap and wireless network in the office