Wikimedia Engineering Productivity Team/Lunch and learn

At our offsite we broached the idea of doing a lunch and learn series for the team.

2021-10-11

(tentative) Janis Meybohm on Dragonfly image distribution Q&A

2021-09-27

Nova Runda craft brewery virtual tour!

2021-06-21

Lars on virtual machines

• how to install Debian in a virtual machine under virt-manager
• managing virtual machines with virt-manager
• managing virtual machines with Lars's vmadm tool
• creating custom virtual machine images with Lars's vmdb2 tool

2021-05-25

Lars

• How to write a train summary email.
• How to journal (http://demo-journal.liw.fi/)
• Backup techonlogy (http://git.liw.fi/wmf-talks/tree/2021-05-24-backup-tech.md)

2021-04-26

• Counting (no knowledge of mathematics required) by Dom
  • Presentation: File:Lunch_and_Learn_26-04-21_Combinatorics.pdf

2021-04-05

• A Guide to Falling Down by User:JHuneidi_(WMF)

2021-03-01

• Getting Things Done by Lars Wirzenius

2021-02-01

• w:Cal Newport's Deep Work by User:ZFilipin_(WMF)
  • Notes
  • Blog posts:
    • Deep Work by Cal Newport
    • Deep Work at Lunch and learn
  • Slides

2020-09-28

• Yubikeys by Lars Wirzenius
  • Slides

2020-09-14

• PHP for the Reluctant by Brennen Bearnes (task T260265)
  • Focus: Foundations of PHP's success, language basics, common traps to keep an eye out for while reviewing & debugging.
  • Slides

2020-08-17

• Quibble - MediaWiki's CI runner by Antoine Musso

2020-08-03

• Train dev environment by Lars Wirzenius

2020-07-06

• Advanced Phabricator Usage by Mukunda Modell

Present a Lunch and Learn

Here is the emergent process for scheduling a lunch and learn.

1. Check your calendar, you should have a standing Lunch and Learn invite every 2 weeks
2. Find the next calendar event that does not have a speaker
3. Add the date to this page, along with your name and the subject of your lunch and learn
4. Modify the calendar event with information about your talk — your name, the title of your talk, and a link to your slides (if there are any)
5. Store slides in the shared Engineering Productivity/Lunch and Learn folder on Google drive OR post them publicly on the internet or on wiki and link them from this page.

Past Presentations

• 2021-02-01

Ideas

• Advanced phab usage
• Gerrit repo layout and advanced command line usage
• Quibble overview and how tos
• Contributing to Scap: how to run the test suite, how to write intergration tests, planned radical changes.
• A demo of the current status of the train-dev environment
• Helm test: what is it; what's possible; how does it work?
• Dan's favorite knots
• Why you don't want to run a marathon and other running advice -- Željko
• Alphabet Workers Union, a Case Study -- Dan