10 February 2017 MWstake Meeting

Date (UTC):	10 February 2017 15:00:00 - 10 February 2017 15:00:00
URL:	https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E334
Etherpad:	https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mwstake-2017-02

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Meeting Notes

Attendees

Thomas O'Neill Justin Green Lex Sulzer Mark A. Hershberger Chris Koerner Markus Glaser Cindy Cicalese Peter Meyer

News and Updates

• Technical Collaboration's (WMF) role in supproritng third-party users
  • Known contact points: Quim (via Chris) is the liaison for us
  • CTO reportedly supports MediaWiki as a product
• New MediaWiki core team!?
  • Dedicated people (Engineers, Product managers)
  • ROADMAP!!!! (tbd)
  • Very encouraging to hear support for MW as a product.
• Will probably have WMF engineer(s) at the EMWCon
• Cloud Team
  • https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086343.html
  • WMFLabs & Tools
  • "Wikimedia cloud services"
  • Brian Davis
  • Historical interest in 3rd party
  • Dockerize MW?
• Some feedback I've heard from WMF folks on leadership in MWStake
  • Criticism: MWStake started out really strong, but people are a bit unimpressed
  • Waiting for getting something more concrete accomplished
  • There are visibility issues with mwstake, we do things but we are not branding it as mwstake

Cons

EMWCon

   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2017

• Is #mwstake willing to host (i.e. lend its name to, no money involved) an edit-a-thon the first evening of EMWCon in conjunction with WikiDC -
  • yes
  • Evening of first day 5:30-9:30
  • offsite from EMWCon venue
  • probably government transition oriented
  • (e.g. fixing broken links in Wikipedia to White House web pages)?
  • yes. first evening (Weds) editathon focused on gov links notably to whitehouse.gov if those links are still broken
  • I expect to get support from WikiDC for food for this first evening.
  • Co-sponsoring with some org, e.g. MWstake, is important to making that happen

• Social event second evening

https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Open_Semantic_Data_Association - they support SMWCon, but my understanding from Yaron is that they are not involved in EMWCon

• ACTION: all promote Call for Participation for EMWCon
• ACTION: Mark talk to Lex about create camp

Vienna Hackathon

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017

• 6 hour track on Friday (May 19-21), i.e. 8 slots, 45 minutes each (possibly)
  • Works for branding MWStake
• Working title: "The potential of MediaWiki" -> find something better
• Draft programme should be ready by next Wednesday
• Topic suggestions?
  • Use case +!
  • Tutorial?
  • Panel discussion
• ACTION: Markus etherpad with draft schedule
• Possibly attending: Lex, Chris, Mark, Markus, Cindy, Peter

   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Register_and_Attend#Scholarships

Incorporation

• Status and next steps
• Fundraising
  • Need a clearly defined outcome
  • hosting of MWStake and Wikiapiary!?
    • <shamless plug>Wikimedia Cloud Services</shameless plug>
• https://lwn.net/Articles/713073/ -- FOSS Umbrella orgs in the EU
  • Alternative structures, non US incorporation
  • Just go B-Corp? "public benefit corporation"
• Plan was: US 501(c)(6), a professional organisation
• Need to align with WMF
• Apply for Grants
• Wikimedia DC could do a "fiscal sponsorship"
  • Possibly that even could include paid staff.
• ACTION: Mark & Peter hash this out

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist