Topics from the past

Quick hiring status/update
December deployment freeze for Language?
- Dan/Erik will decide by next week
Tomasz will be publishing more details about upcoming Discovery work, especially as it relates to the “Knowledge Engine” concept
- Has been started; early phases; plans to send out today
Reminder to use public mailing list (instead of private) whenever possible

Announcements, Information, Questions

Portal
- is now deployed from gerrit
- event logging will be added very shortly (hopefully today)
Quick survey hopefully will be added to this week . Will appear on the article page, which the user clicked through to from search results, which they got to from either the portal search box, or the in-wiki search box
- Moiz is leading
- Target is Thursday Nov 19
- Simple yes/no question about whether they found what they were looking for
Q3 goals
- Current draft goals are old; will be rewritten
- To propose something, go ahead and add it directly to the Q3 goals page
- Plan is to have them “finalized” and up for review by early December

Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?

Blocked

Blocking

(I didn't capture the discussion, but Dan will update the statuses on the goals page.)

Holiday Nov 26-27 (Thurs/Fri)
Next Discovery retrospective: Nov 30
Next Showcase (Discovery+Reading): Not yet scheduled
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/rdshowcase
Holiday Dec 25 (Friday)
Holiday Jan 1 (Friday)
Dev Summit Jan 4-6
All-hands Jan 7-8
Discovery Summit Jan 11-12