MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Meetings/2014-09-26 Telco
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Purpose
editState of the tasks and communitcation structures
Time and place
edit26 September, 2014 at 4 PM UTC
- Dial in
- Google Hangout
- IRC (#mw-co-op connect).
- Whiteboard
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wiki-Co-Op
- Attendees (for real)
Agenda
edit- Welcome (Markus)
- State of projects
- Monitoring roadmap
- Feature wishlist
- Publicizing changes in 1.24 (Mark)
- AffCom application (Markus)
- Communication structures (Markus)
- Ideas on fundraising (Markus)
- Organisational
- Saturday as possible meeting time
- Your items (please add your name)
- Other
- Closing (Mark)
Minutes
editStart: 3:08PM
Attendees
edit- Mark Hershberger
- Alexis Hershberger
- Richard Heigl
- Markus Glaser
State of projects
editMonitoring ongoing development
editFeature wishlist
edit- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Cooperation/Tasks/Feature_wishlist
- There are some interesting ideas on that page, esp. about providing content packages.
Publicizing changes in 1.24
edit- Mark. Use official twitter account and communication channels to advertise new MediaWiki features. For example reasons why people should update
- Richard: translate these messages to German
- Are there other languages we can target? Russian (Natasha Brown), Chinese developer for Mandarin and Cantonese, Spanish, French
- Find one person per language
- Use the translation feature on MW.o
- This is time critical. Start in November before the release.
- Use official WMF blog as a medium (official announcements are important for media)
- Write this from a users' perspective
- ContentHandler and it's possibilities are great and this should be communicated.
AffCom application
edit- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Cooperation/Tasks/Application
- Application will be submitted on Monday, after finalizing it together with Manuel
Communication structures
edit- Markus proposes to use a seperate mailing list (e.g. mediawiki-co-op-l) for coordination of the group
- We need other ways of informing people that something is happening than mediawiki-l
- Mark created a Google event
Ideas on fundraising
edit- Richard says crowdfunding software focused on MW Developers
- what software can we use?
- Not a tool question. Do we have the power and resources?
- Other sources of funding:
- apply for grants together with partner
- Go to large users and see if they want to do this for their corporate social responsibility
- Try to do cold calls? It is a lot of effort and the expected result is not very high
- Our ability to raise money also depends on plans for MediaWiki. We should start a conversation with the Foundation about their plans with MediaWiki.
Organisational
editSaturday as possible meeting time
edit- We must have a conversation with people of the group about a good time slot.
Other
edit- Next meeting is in three weeks, time and date to be confirmed
- potentially Friday, October 17th or Saturday, October 18th
Meeting closes @ 6:59 PM UTC
Future Meeting Dates
editRegular meetings will be held on every first Friday of the month.
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2016-09-28 (during SMWCon Fall 2016 in Frankfurt) |
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