22 August 2014 MWstake Meeting

Date (UTC):	22 August 2014 18:00:00 - 22 August 2014 19:00:00
URL:	https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholders%27_Group/Meetings/2014-08-22_Telco
Etherpad:	https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mwstake-2014-08
Attendees:	Alexis Hershberger, Benjamin Lees, Cindy Cicalese, Edlira Dushku, FoxxT, illuminatusds, Kunal Mehta, Mark Hershberger, Markus Glaser, Natasha Brown, Rach123, Siebrand Mazeland

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Purpose

This is our first online meeting. We should finalize the application for recognition and agree on the format of future meetings.

Time and place

22 August, 2014 at 6:00 PM UTC

Dial in

• Google Hangout
• IRC (#mw-co-op^connect).

Whiteboard

http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wiki-Co-Op

Agenda

1. Welcome (Markus)
2. Proposed finalized version of the application (Markus)
3. Outreach: Who shall be invited to be involved? (Mark)
4. Tasks (Markus)
5. Spokesperson and action committees (Mark)
6. Future meetings: purpose, frequency, schedule, modality (Markus)
7. Other
8. Closing (Mark)
9. Your items (please add your name)

Minutes

Present:

on Video call

• Markus Glaser
• Mark Hershberger
• Siebrand Mazeland
• Alexis Hershberger
• Legoktm
• Edlira Dushku
• Emufarmers (Benjamin Lees)
• Cindy Cicalese
• Natasha Brown

on IRC

• FoxxT
• illuminatusds
• Rach123

Meeting starts at 18:04 UTC

Agenda

• Welcome (Markus)
• Proposed finalized version of the application (Markus)
• Outreach: Who shall be invited to be involved? (Mark)
• Tasks (Markus)
• Spokesperson and action committees (Mark)
• Future meetings: purpose, frequency, schedule, modality (Markus)
• Other
• Closing (Mark)

Welcome

• Everyone introduces themselves

Finalized version of the proposal

• This need to be a bit more verbose. Someone (TM) prepare a "more text" version which we then submit
• Send mail to mediawiki-l about it so we can get last minute input where needed.
• Next Friday

Outreach

• Feel free to invite more people
• Suggest people to invite to Mark
• Point people to Wiki-Co-Op page
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Co-op

Tasks

• do-ocracy
• One task could be
  • Monitor roadmap
  • Code review for extensions and core changes from extension developers (List of people). Raise awareness for this.
  • Backporting priorities and indications

Spokesperson and action committee

• Mark and Markus to be the spokespersons
• Action committees
  • Monitor roadmap: Legoktm and Markus

Future of meetings

• Video or IRC?
• Video for discussions
• IRC for doing the actual work
• One more video meeting in 14 days
• Monthly video meetings from then on

Other

• What do people expect to get from this?
  • In 18 months time we have two conferences about MediaWiki (in in North America, one in Europe), engage 100k system administrators to get involved
  • Create business opportunities for independent software developers
  • When i first started using mw, there wa s a lot of documentation, spread about. What I needed was someone else to point me at stuff (you know, like anti-spam stuff that is fairly common), and give a steer to new adopters
  • Contribute to extensions
  • Then also to be able to have a convo wit mw devs about the roadmap and whether this would have effects on current running systems (like plans for php version min reqs etc,)
  • The next time I upgrade my wiki farm nothing breaks
  • Contributing back to the mediawiki ecosystem
  • Keep an eye on development affecting third party users
  • MediaWiki to be better than Wordpress, Google and Facebook!

Closing

• Mailinglist: mediawiki-l. Please use mail tags [wiki co-op]
• Please sign https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Wiki_Co-op#Contributors if you haven't already.

Meeting closes at 18:50 UTC