Topics from the past

From SoS: “Winter is coming... Annual reminder to please postpone risky rollouts till after December's fundraising campaign”
- Will there be any train interruptions through the rest of the year?
- No specific details yet; stay tuned
TPG shadow: Natalia will be joining Discovery meetings the rest of this week
Mikhail presented at Metrics last Thursday (went well)

Announcements, Information, Questions

Privacy by Design policy and related introductory talks last week and this week
- Everyone involved with product development is encouraged to sign up and attend one of them
The (informal) WMF product group is working on their response/thoughts on the draft/proposed form of the Technical Collaboration Guideline and the process that is creating it
- Draft of a proposal of some guidelines, so non-binding
- Context somewhat missing for product managers
- Dan will chat to Katie about it in their 1:1 on Thursday
[wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2016 has been announced: A contest for 13-17 year old students. November 2016. For more info, see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016#Mentors.27_corner
Reminder that this weekend the US will end daylight saving (Europe already flipped this past weekend)
Kevin will be in SF Nov 7-10
Katie in office Nov 8-9
Reminder that Dec 26-30 are all WMF holidays
Dan’s visa is approved, issued, and his passport is being posted back to him :-)
- Planned return date to SF: 11th November
- If I get my passport back early I may try and change my flight to earlier… but I bet they’ll charge me $$$
Making progress on hiring a contract programmer for maps (but not done yet)
Clarification that Yuri's "tabular data on commons" is unrelated to the big "structured metadata on commons" initiative that recently got funding. There is also the "multi content revision" RFC from Daniel, which is also not directly related.

Are we blocked?

Are we blocking? (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/)

Other dependencies (in either direction) which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are progressing smoothly, have no urgency, etc.)

From SoS 10-19: Android: Start on Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions (Is that via WDQS?)

(Status below last updated 2016-11-01. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

Oct 24 - Nov 11: Dan in the UK for work visa renewal, working 2pm - 10pm UK time
Nov 1: Spark Project sharing deadline
- link: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spark_Project#Showcase )
Nov 2: Next Showcase (“CREDIT”)
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
Nov 11: Holiday (Veterans Day)
Nov 17: Monthly metrics (Thursday)
Nov 24-25 Holiday
Dec 26-30: Holiday
Jan 5: Next All-Discovery retro
Jan 9-11: Dev Summit (SF)
Jan 12-13: All-hands (SF)
- Some of us not going to the Dev Summit will be coming in a day early
- Discovery dinner? :) +1+1 +1000