Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2014-01-21

2014-01-21

Monthly goals

• Guillaume
  • January report delayed due to holidays etc, but it is shipped now.
  • Tech News is being shipped consistenly with the help of Odder, which is a great step in the way to consolidation. Some WMF product managers are also updating directly. Some progress.
• Andre
  • Bugzilla 4.4 ready to go; waiting for Daniel, Sean and Andre need to agree on time when to switch database and DNS
  • Stakeholders of "PM tools evaluation" were individually contacted as a reminder to fill out the form
    • Slowly need to move from documenting needs to analyzing answers and decreasing number of candidates
• Sumana
  • not started FOSDEM prep stuff
  • may move upstream list to Feb
  • In San Francisco in the next following two weeks.
• Quim
  • GCI winners announced
  • New task, list of WMF employees with travel approval for the Zürich Hackathon 2014

Budget 2014-15, what does this mean for ECT

• Do we need more people? Do we need more volunteer development budget?
• Sponsoring volunteers to Wikimedia events, FOSS OPW...