Victoria
Thanks for that. As you may gather, I have not found that in the past
those interactions all went well. But we can hope.
"Rogol"
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 9:11 PM, Victoria Coleman <vcoleman(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Ah, sorry, I misunderstood your question Rogol. So let
me try and give you
my point of view on the essence of your question. The Tech department in
the Foundation, the TechCom and the volunteer developer community work to
support the movement and its people, from readers to contributors and
beyond. What this tech community overall works on is driven by the needs
of the movement. Some of these needs are purely technical. For example we
want to minimize latency for both readers and contributors so we spend a
lot of effort in understanding what causes latency and how to reduce it.
Other needs come from the need to build new features. An example of this
would be ORES and the scoring tool that many editors use. How do we collect
and prioritize these needs? In some cases through our own expertise, in
some cases by being part of the community , in others by doing research to
understand what works and yet in others by working closely with the
Audiences team in the Foundation. The Audiences team has the mandate to
deliver user facing features based on research and close interaction with
the community. The Community wishlist being a great example of that work.
The Community Engagement team through the Community Liaisons is another
great way for us to collect input for the community.
I would of course also welcome your ideas and suggestions as well as
those of other members of the community for how we could better capture the
views and needs of our users and our contributors.
Best regards,
Victoria
On Jul 29, 2017, at 11:12 PM, Rogol Domedonfors
<domedonfors(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Victoria
Thanks you for your prompt and full reply. However, you describe how
volunteer developers will interact with TechCom, but my question was
about
the users across the world and the content
contributors in the various
projects, who will be using the products and services that WMF and the
pther developers work on. I assume that TechCom will wish to understand
the views of what those users and contributors want and need -- how will
those be be taken into account?
"Rogol"
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 4:48 AM, Victoria Coleman <
vcoleman(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Thank you Rogol. The primary way that the volunteer developer community
> will interact with the TechCom is through the use of the RFC process as
was
> the case with the ArchCom beforehand. The
TechCom itself of course is
open
> to the volunteer developer community for
participation and since we are
> expanding membership to cover a broader area of technologies that the
> ArchCom was able to cover, there will be more opportunity to get
involved.
> We are looking forward to that and as Daniel
and I will be present at
> Wikimania we will discuss the workings and goals of the new charter with
> anyone who is interested. I would encourage you and anyone else who
wants
> to know more to reach out to Daniel or myself
to arrange to get
together.
> For those who cannot attend Wikimania, we
will host a webcast in the
next
> few weeks to introduce the new committee and
its charter and take
questions.
>
> Best,
>
>
> Victoria
>
>
>> On Jul 29, 2017, at 2:17 PM, Rogol Domedonfors <domedonfors(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Victoria
>>
>> Thanks for that. I am sure we all welcome the new Committee. The
>> description of its role mentions that it is "the guardian of the
> integrity,
>> consistency, stability and performance of the software supporting the
>> Wikimedia projects", and its "authority on technical decisions
regarding
>> any official software that serves
Wikimedia users". Could you say
>> something about how the Committee will work with the community in its
>> various aspects to find out what forms of support and service the users
> and
>> contributors want and need?
>>
>> "Rogol"
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Victoria Coleman <
> vcoleman(a)wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello All!
>>>
>>> Daniel and I would like to share some good news:
>>>
>>>
>>> After talking about it for years, and vetting the draft for months,
>>> it's finally done: the Architecture Committee has adopted a proper
> charter
>>> defining its purpose, operation, and authority.
>>>
>>> You can find the charter here:
>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Charter
<
>>>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Charter
>
>>>
>>> The charter among other things defines from where the committee draws
> its
>>> authority over technical development at the WMF: the committee acts as
> an
>>> extension of the CTO. This gives the committee a clear role in the
>>> foundation's decision
>>> making processes.
>>>
>>> The charter also clarifies the scope of TechCom: it is to act as an
>>> authority on
>>> technical decisions regarding any official software that serves
> Wikimedia
>>> users.
>>> The committee should be involved in matters regarding such software
that
>>> are
>>> strategic, cross-cutting, or hard to undo.
>>>
>>> The committee has also given itself a new name, to better fit the
scope
> as
>>> defined in the charter: we are now the Wikimedia Technical Committee
>>> (TechCom).
>>>
>>> Looking forward to working with the technical community to fulfill the
>>> charter!
>>>
>>>
>>> Victoria & Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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