<div dir="ltr">Can someone throw me an invite to the meeting? I'm interested in attending.<div><br></div><div>It's done in a room with a setup suitable for remote participation, I hope? :-)</div><div><br></div><div>
Dan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 October 2013 01:11, Arthur Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arichards@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">arichards@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks everyone who came and participated in the first scrum of scrums! Overall, I think it went really well - particularly considering this was our first iteration of this experiment.<div>
<br></div><div>There are just a few points I'd like to mention before we dive into the next one:</div>
<div>* Please be on time. We got started late with the first one, which exacerbates the challenge of coordinating between all of the teams in 30 minutes. I have extended the room reservation to begin at 10:25am to allow a few minutes for folks to show up, set up the hangout, etc. I will start the next one at 10:30am PDT with or without you :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>* I think there was some feeling about folks discussing things that weren't really pertinent/important for other teams to here. I think this is OK, and it will just take some calibration for us to figure out what's the good stuff to bring up and what's not. I think that Diederik's proposal (see 'Story wall for the Scrum of Scrums') of using some kind of visual representation of the dependencies, etc can help keep conversation well focussed - but we also want to provide some space for us to discover hidden dependencies or other ways in which we can collaborate. </div>
<div><br></div><div>* I personally had the sense that overall the first meeting was useful, as touchpoints/dependencies/places for collaboration were highlighted, discovered, and briefly discussed. Of course I am biased because I am eager for this to succeed, so I am curious to hear other perspectives.</div>
<div><br></div><div>* There was a mistake in preparing calendar invites, and Trevor (of the VisualEditor team) was left off. I only noticed minutes prior to the meeting and unfortunately VE was not represented. As you can likely tell from the notes, there were a few touchpoints discussed between VE and other teams. Sorry for the mixup!</div>
<div><br></div><div>* We have a retrospective scheduled for Nov 12 to evaluate how things have been going with the SoS - but please don't hesitate to discuss/share thoughts/etc before that so we can continue to make improvements as we move forward.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div>Arthur</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Arthur Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arichards@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">arichards@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Whoops, that was an oversight - the language team is also already on the list :-) </p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 9, 2013 9:40 PM, "Alolita Sharma" <<a href="mailto:asharma@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">asharma@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hi Arthur,<div><br></div><div>Can you add the Language team to the list of teams interested in participating in the SoS. Amir is on vacation this week and may not have responded.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div>
<div>Alolita</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Erik Moeller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erik@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">erik@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Excellent; thanks for driving this, Arthur.<br>
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For those who are skeptical about such things, please keep in mind<br>
it's just an experiment and the eval after a month will hopefully lead<br>
to a decision by the participating teams on whether it is / can be a<br>
useful investment of time or not. I don't think anyone disagrees that<br>
we need to continually improve inter-team communications and this is<br>
one of many possible ways of going about it. :) I'm really pleased so<br>
many teams decided to sign up and participate in this trial run.<br>
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All best,<br>
Erik<br>
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VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation<br>
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