Wikimedia Developer Summit/2016/Session checklist
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This checklist exists to help each session at WikiDev meet the following goals:
- Have productive discussion about topics that need face-to-face time
- Make progress towards agreement on a solution
- Document what was discussed, including areas of agreement and disagreement
- Create written list of action items for follow up
- Update or create Phabricator tasks as appropriate
Specific tasks:
- Assign meeting roles:
- Facilitator
- Gatekeeper
- Scribe
- Timekeeper
- Facilitator: run session to achieve specific goals.
- State or build consensus towards meeting goal and style, referencing one of these meeting types:
- Problem-solving: surveying many possible solutions
- Strawman: exploring one specific solution
- Field narrowing: narrowing down choices of solution
- Consensus: coming to agreement on one solution
- Education: teaching people about an agreed solution
- Identify agenda items and guide discussion to stay on topic
- Redirect participants who begin venting or discussing things that can be done online
- Scribe(s): Document the session
- Copy https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiDev16-YourSession to https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiDev16-[SESSION NAME]
- Fill out the information in the template, including
- Link to Phabricator task describing session
- Goal as described by facilitator
- Topics of discussion as laid out by facilitator
- Action items and who is responsible for them
- Create new Phabricator tasks as needed
- At end of session, copy meeting notes into Phabricator as appropriate
- Gatekeeper: Actively manage participation
- Interrupt people if they are dominating the discussion
- Help people who are having difficulty being heard
- If the gatekeeper is talking too much, someone else should interrupt them
- Timekeeper: Keep track of time left and point out time passing to facilitator
- If possible, estimate time for each topic written by scribes
- Let people know when a topic has gone over its time
- Give a warning when 5-10 minutes are left