Core Platform Team/Offsites/2019/Agenda

Tuesday edit

8:00 - 8:45 Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00 Kickoff (Kate)
  • Break into pairs, find one thing you have in common, rotate pairs until you have found one thing in common with every team member
9:00 - 9:10 Intro (Corey)
9:10 - 10:30 Why: Shared generation of team mission (Corey)
10:30 - 10:40 Break
10:40 - 11:15 Engineering Challenges Group Discussion (Will)
  • Facilitated group discussions with topics proposed in advance
11:15 - 12:00 Live Retro on the Year (Kate)
12:00 - 13:00 How: Culture and Values (Will)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Development Practices Problem Solving (Corey)
15:00 - 15:45 REST API Discussion (Evan)
15:45 - 16:45 Lightning Talks
  • Eric - Central Texas BBQ 101
  • Bill - fatal-error.php
  • Daniel - Applying Architecture Principles
  • Petr - Russian Proverbs Applied to Software Engineering
  • Eric - Quick Kask Overview
  • Bonus: Kate - Competitive Goating
16:45 - 17:00 Close day
19:00 Team Dinner

Wednesday edit

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 How and Who: Pipelines and people
10:00 - 11:00 Session Storage or Parsoid Port Discussion
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:15 Team Roles, Responsibilities and Accountabilities
12:15 - 13:00 Workshops 1: Nodejs (Petr)
  • Intro to Nodejs development
  • Using Nodejs to build tools
  • How we use Nodejs in our services
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 The Alamo
16:00 The Riverwalk

Thursday edit

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30 Kickoff
9:30 - 10:45 Session Storage or Parsoid Port Discussion
10:45 - 11:45 Workshops 2: Dependency Injection (Daniel)
  • Overview of Dependency Injection
  • Patterns for using Dependency Injection in MediaWiki
11:45 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 13:00 Core Platform Team 2040: A Look Backwards
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:30 Unconf Project Time
  • This time is dedicated semi-structured time
  • Everyone should bring 2-3 things they would like to work on with others
  • The topics can be anything from workshopping 10% ideas, to small tasks you’d like to work on with others or project design discussions
  • We’ll form groups of 3 people for blocks of 45 minutes
  • Someone within the group should take notes that can be shared back
16:30 - 16:45 Share back from Unconf
  • Everyone shares back 60 seconds on what they did at the Unconf
16:45 - 17:00 Circle, triangle, square final
17:00 - 17:30 Review of the Week and Commitments to Each Other
  • Wiki Love
19:00 Team Dinner

Friday edit

8:30 - 9:00 Leave Hotel
9:00 - 11:30 Caves
11:30 Depart Caves
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch at/near Mercadeo
13:00 - 14:00 Walk around near Mercadeo
14:00 Escape Team Building
16:00 https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/San_Antonio