Talk:MediaWiki Developer Summit 2015

Name
Now that I think about it, why the pompous name? Do I guess correctly that "summit" stands for "invitation only", for historical reasons i.e. the four past Pune language summits in the category?

The "charter" of the event is quite unclear and undefined so far, probably it will get better in the next few weeks; but for now we read it's about «evolution of the MediaWiki architecture and the Wikimedia Engineering goals for 2015 [...] three themes that welcome activities to improve awareness, collaboration, and results». That makes two pillars: This would make it 75 % Wikimedia-specific, but there are only two non-Wikimedia attendees, Kim and Cindy, of which one mentioned topics relevant to an existing RfC, so the RfC part will also be Wikimedia-specific. So the meeting is 95+ % Wikimedia and 90+ % WMF (consistent with attendees numbers). I'd call it just WMF developer meeting 2015, where the "WMF" part makes pompous replacements of "invitation-only" redundant while at the same time clearly conveying the main topic.
 * a conference half on MediaWiki and half on WMF;
 * a hackathon on three Wikimedia-specific matters.

Names are substance. I suggest that you're still on time to rename the meeting, or otherwise clarify its scope: if done in advance, this will help making the meeting more productive. --Nemo 07:56, 29 December 2014 (UTC)