User:Bryan Hilderbrand/Meeting Notes (18DEC)

Meeting notes for MediaWiki "Products" Discussion (Fri Dec 18 16:00-17:00 UTC 2020)

Attendees

• Ad Strack van Schijndel
• Bryan Hilderbrand
• Eric-Jan van Kakerken
• Greg Rundlett
• Ike Hecht
• Lex Sulzer
• Lexi McGillivray
• Markus Glaser
• Rich Evans
• Richard Heigl
• Yaron Koren

1. Introductions
2. Yaron
   • 30s Elevator Pitch
3. Rich
   • Does this represent a way to pay for things? (buy a fix for an issue, etc.)
   • What is the governance model?
4. Markus
   • Like a common core? Or a collection of Use Cases (Templates + Use Cases)?
     • Each product would be MW + Extensions + Templates/Forms Yaron
   • MWStake already exists, should this be under their umbrella?
     • Could be. Or Open Semantic Data Association (OSDA) Yaron
5. Ad
   • This is similar to the talk I gave at SMWCon2020 called "MediaWiki based open source content services platform" (YouTube link)
   • We need a "common foundation" (MW + Extensions + Search + etc.)
   • Internally we have a tool to "sync" via git
   • We have CRM & Workflow modules
   • Could have a menu with a dropdown so people can add other "Products"/"Components"/"Modules"
     • I think it's better to sell each thing as a stand-alone Product without overselling it as something that "does everything". Better to undersell & then grow Yaron
6. Richard
   • We need a distribution of MW+
   • Something like the "Sunflower Distribution" (discussed during an MWStake meeting on 04OCT19 link)
7. Eric-Jan
   • "Content Services Suite"
8. Ad
   • I think we should focus on the platform with one approach
     • We can do that in parallel Yaron
9. Lex
   • Should we start with concept vs. technical first?
     • End Users
     • Admins
     • Customers' Developers