26 January 2015 MWstake Meeting

Date (UTC):	26 January 2015 19:00:00 - 26 January 2015 20:00:00
URL:	http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholders%27_Group/Meetings/2015-01-26_Meeting
Etherpad:	https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mwstake-2015-01
Attendees:	Chris Steipp, Cindy Cicalese, Greg, Isarra, Kunal Mehta, Mark Hershberger, Markus Glaser, Mukunda, Niklas, Quim Gil, Siebrand Mazeland

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Purpose

• Discuss the state of the group and a shift in focus

Time and Place

26 January, 2015 at 7:15 PM UTC

Dial in

• none

Whiteboard

• http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/MWDS15-MediaWiki-Stakeholders-Group

Attendees (for real)

• Mark
• Markus
• Siebrand
• Greg
• Legoktm
• Isarra
• Cindy
• Niklas
• CSteipp
• Quim
• Mukunda
• add yourself if you were there

Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Introduction of the group: What we are and where we're heading
3. Current state
4. Possible shift in strategic focus: Advisory and educational
5. Infrastructure
6. Other
7. Closing

Additional info

• Slides: Slides of presentation
• In Phabricator: Task T86563

Minutes

• Markus explains what the MW Stakeholders Group is doing (he has slides, should be uploaded somewhere)
  • Monitors development roadmap
  • Application to AffCom
  • Set up a developer exchange
  • Development wishlist / roadmap
  • Set up tasks on Phabricator
  • Extension documentation on mw.o
• Re-focus (Markus proposes)
  • We are probably diverting too much. If we would be lobbying for only one reason, what would it be?
  • Mark: Extension / Content bundle?
  • We are not discussing. How to start?
  • mediawiki-l could be the mailing to discuss
  • Mark: what if we start discussing the extension bundle the idea in mediawiki-l?
  • Legoktm: we would need to discuss first whether that is a good idea?
  • Csteipp: as a 3rd party user you don't get any communiation when there are changes of big impact coming.
  • Isarra: Is there a way to communicate these announcements?
  • Mukunda: a MediaWiki Planet?
  • Siebrand? a tag log in i.e. Wikipedia planet?
  • ACTION: Publish major release announcements on techblog (Greg G on point)
  • We gots a hashtag: #mwstake
• Wikimedia Foundation support
  • Quim: If you need something, ask. If you don't say anything, we assume you are fine.
  • The group should know what Wikimedia can offer (grants, participation and travel sponsorship to events...)
• Quim: What about the SemanticMediaWiki community?
  • Markus: we have SMW people in the group, but we don't need to be the single point of contact for 3rd parties.