Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2013-05-21

21 May 2013

Tech ambassadors

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors

• TODO: Sumana to give Guillaume some names/email of people to test this out

Tech weekly news

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Latest

• a volunteer helped a lot
• lots of little tweaks that will make the next ones easier
• Guillaume has reached out to a lot of people to suggest they subscribe or contribute, including Signpost-like entities
• suggestion: crowdsource monitoring of important tech changes
• next: blog post
• 5 or 6 complete translations of the first issue!
• Guillaume's involvement to gradually drop lower

Tech/News may have a little too much to read to explore -- move "read latest news" higher up? Will it be translated before posting to village pumps?

• first version was posted to VP on all wikis with a note saying "just this first one will be posted here" - people can subscribe so it's posted to a community page or a talkpage
  • look at subscribers - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors 70+ pages will get this every week
• next time: translation before distribution
  • Different communities will want different tradeoffs. Ask McBride whether he could add a feature to global distro bot: if there's an existing translation, even incomplete, bot posts translation? But that would be complicated, moreso than current setup
    • They choose whether they want en version directly posted on VP (distribution list)

Already done: contact the Signpost-like publications. In a month: contact again those who have not subscribed yet

Amsterdam prep

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013

misc

wikimedia-l thread/rules for volunteers' participation: Andre figuring out policy re adminship in BZ, groups - aim for early June for having a policy stated

• If you think we should work with an org please add it to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Organizations (Talk page also good). Quim.
• Just highlighting the new look&feel of https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce - feedback welcome. Quim.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar Next week: Quim to consider how to work with intern re June testing activities

Other conferences/dates

• Guillaume possibly a couple days off in June or July; will provide tentative dates as soon as they're known
• Andre:
  • Holidays (BE/NL) May Mon20-Thu23 -- any replacement available? Quim maybe? I'll be here--Quim
  • likely in SF from Jun Tue11-Mon17
  • OpenSourceBridge (Portland/Oregon) Jun Tue18-Fri21
• Sumana
  • Wed & Fri May 15 & 17 off
  • a little vacation before & after Amsterdam
  • Some time traveling or training in June, + OSBridge
• Quim vaguely thinking on some holidays in July. Specific dates coming soon.
• Željko:
  • May 15-17, DORS/CLUC 2013, Zagreb, Croatia
  • May 18-23, vacation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • May 24-26, Wikimedia Hackathon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • June 10-12, Selenium Conference, Boston, MA, USA
  • August 16-18, eurucamp, Berlin, Germany (maybe, waiting for reply if my talk is accepted)
  • September 6-7, BalCCon, Novi Sad, Serbia (maybe, waiting for reply if my talk is accepted)
• Chris:
  • May 24-26, Wikimedia Hackathon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Aug 4-10 Agile2013 - "radically open software testing"