Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2016-01-25

= Topics from the past = (none)

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Superbowl Jan 29 - Feb 7; street closures start Jan 23. SF folks encouraged to work from home.
 * Discovery folks are encouraged to work from home most of that time
 * East coast snow. Everyone doing ok?
 * Yup, holding up.
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Strategy/Knowledge
 * Everyone is encouraged to add their voice to the talk pages
 * Use staff or personal account depending on what voice you are using
 * Answer questions, ask clarifying questions, etc.
 * Kevin plans to relocate out of SF bay in a couple months--shouldn't have much impact on the team
 * Annual planning is starting. Tomasz will be working with various people to put it together.
 * Portal test results are positive
 * Moiz got invited to “Productizing trending articles” session
 * CL Chris Koerner starts tomorrow. Will be working closely with Discovery
 * Need to figure out which meetings he should attend (spoiler: Not all of them)
 * Ops Guillaume starts (remotely) next Monday (Feb 1)

=Scrum of Scrums= Anything from SoS that we should be aware of? Blocked Blocking
 * (no)
 * Security is reviewing textcat
 * Security is reviewing kartatherian
 * w/Reading: Morelike needs A/B testing
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124258
 * Quicksurvey
 * Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

= FYI =
 * Next Discovery retrospective: Jan 25
 * Next Showcase (Reading+Editing+Discovery?): ???
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/showcase