Meetings/2010-03-03

  • Meeting purpose: Wikimedia technology meeting with staff, contractors and volunteers
  • Meeting day: March 3, 2010
  • Meeting time: 9 AM to 5 PM pacific time
  • Location: San Francisco

Attendees

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  • All WMF technical and user experience staff listed on wmf:Staff
  • Brion Vibber
  • Andrew Garrett (by phone/Skype from Sydney, 13:30–16:00). Apologies, I won't be able to make the part that I most wanted to dial in for, as I have lectures at this time.
  • Roan Kattouw (by phone/Skype from Holland, from 11:00 AM)
  • Domas Mituzas (by phone/skype/whatever from Lithuania)
  • Aaron Schultz (by phone/skype/whatever)
  • Mark A Hershberger (phone/skype from ???, etc from 13:30 on)
  • Jeff Jones - Office IT Manager (in person)
  • Hampton Catlin - Will be available for most of the morning of it (calling in from the UK)
  • Daniel Kinzler (WMDE, phone/skype from germany. Would need to talk about backup/toolserver stuff, can't really make it before lunch though)

Agenda

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All times are Pacific Standard Time.

(tentative, pending confirmations from speakers)

09:00 AM - 09:30 AM - Meeting Opening (Danese)

09:30 AM - 10:45 AM - Operations discussion

  • Backups, fail-over in case of hardware/network outage
  • Monitoring
  • New data-center planning

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM - BREAK

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM - Operations discussion

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM - Introduction to Planning Process (Sarah)

12:30 PM - 13:30 PM - LUNCH

13:30 PM - 15:00 PM - Software Development discussion

  • Feature / development / release roadmap / upcoming deployments

15:00 PM - 15:15 PM - BREAK

15:15 PM - 17:00 PM - Software development discussion

  • Software development management: Testing / deployment / version control / code review infrastructure
  • Bugzilla/PM discussion (migration to Redmine or other solution?)
  • VCS discussion

18:00 PM - 20:00 PM - Tech Team Dinner (details to follow)

Time Permitting:

  • State of office IT security/roadmap and wireless network in the office
  • WMF participation in Google Summer of Code 2010
  • OpenId / OAuth support
  • Berlin Developers Conference
  • Usage of CDNs
  • State of OpenStreetMap integration
  • Toolserver Governance
  • m.wikipedia development going forward