10 January 2015 MWstake Meeting

Date (UTC):	10 January 2015 15:00:00 - 10 January 2015 16:00:00
URL:	http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholders%27_Group/Meetings/2015-01-10_Telco
Etherpad:	https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mwstake-2015-01
Attendees:	Alexis Hershberger, Chris Koerner, Cindy Cicalese, Gabor, Mark Hershberger, Markus Glaser, Natasha Brown, Richard Heigl, Toni Hermoso Pulido, Tyler Romeo

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Time and Place

10 January, 2015 at 3 PM UTC

Dial in

• Google Hangout

Whiteboard

• http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wiki-Co-op

Attendees (for real)

• Attendees

Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Specification for opt-in registration: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_check_and_opt-in_site_reporting
3. UPCOMING! US Hackathon Developer Summit 2015 (invitation only)
   1. San Francisco, California, USA, January 26 -27
   2. To register: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015
4. State of projects
   1. Feature wishlist (Google Code-in students may work on this, too.)
   2. Roadmap
   3. Publicizing 1.24
5. Future conferences for a track
   1. SMWCon Spring 2015
      • St. Louis, MO, USA, May 6-8
      • Location and accommodation information are available at: SMWCon Spring 2015
   2. European Hackathon 2015
      • Lyon, France, May 23-25
      • Location and accommodation information are available at: Lyon Hackathon 2015
   3. Wikimania 2015
      • Mexico City, July 15-19
      • Location and accommodation information are available at: Wikimania Mexico City
   4. SMWCon Fall 2015, TBD, most likely in October/November
6. Other
7. Closing

Minutes

• Attendees: Natasha, Cindy, Mark, Markus, Alexis

Next challenge: Knowledge exchange

• Now we're recognized. Next task: exchange, build up community
• Saturdays as special event days (once a quarter)
• Allow experts to showcase their work + QA
• How can we expand the audience?
  • Set up a permanent hangout
  • Record these sessions
• First topics
  • Mark: could be migrate XML to Content Handler
  • WikiEM: content offline
  • There are several others
• Two topics per session (maybe expand this to two hours and 4 topics later on)
  • Matching different levels of skills to developers and user base
• Provide for a mixed level of skills by having

US Hackathon Developer Summit 2015 (invitation only)

• San Francisco, California, USA, January 26 -27
• To register: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015
• Who's coming?
  • Cindy, Mark, Markus, Siebrand, Legoktm, Niklas
• Mark will put on schedule as stakeholder meeting
• Schedule early and use this to go over the meeting agenda to see where we have stakes or special positions

State of projects

• Feature wishlist (Google Code-in students may work on this, too.)
  • code-in to end in couple weeks, but want to expand this to allow other volunteers to finish work
• Roadmap - nothing
• Publicizing 1.24 - nothing

Future conferences for a track

• SMWCon Spring 2015
  • St. Louis, MO, USA, May 6-8
  • Location and accommodation information are available at: SMWCon Spring 2015
• European Hackathon 2015
  • Lyon, France, May 23-25
  • Location and accommodation information are available at: Lyon Hackathon 2015
• Wikimania 2015
  • Mexico City, July 15-19
  • Location and accommodation information are available at: Wikimania Mexico City
• SMWCon Fall 2015, TBD, most likely in October/November
• Cindy can go to Lyon and bring a couple people (Bernadette and junior developers)
• Natasha has to see
• Mark will go

Specification for opt-in registration

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_check_and_opt-in_site_reporting
• Discussed, accepted, and Mark will implememt in next couple months
• Is it possible to get non-public information? Inside firewall, outside firewall