Technical Leadership Community of Practice

This is an informal community of practice group for principal engineers and other tech leads at the Wikimedia Foundation and affiliated organizations.

Who can join?

 * This meeting is intended for people in technical leadership positions and positions of responsibility, whatever their title is. You can anyone who is on the calendar invite to add you.
 * One aspect of this meeting is to function as a safe space for engineers to discuss their workplace experience. For this reason, managers should only attend when invited for specific discussions.
 * How would including all of them affect the scope?

Where, when and how?

 * We meet once or twice a month by video call.
 * Private IRC channel for chat between meetings. (For help with inviting, see How to private channel.)
 * Anything of general importance should be shared in public channels and mailing lists.
 * Anything of meta importance should be emailed to the calendar invite participants.

What do we talk about

 * Discussing the representation of the technical perspective in high-level decision making.
 * Scheduling improvements and technical debt work
 * Various technical discussions.
 * Sharing experiences, skills and knowledge
 * Reflecting on the role of principal engineer and sharing experiences.