Hi all, sorry I couldn't make it to the meeting. One brief comment on Jay's mail..

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Jay Walsh <jwalsh@wikimedia.org> wrote

The first (and actually quite broad) goal I propose is 'promotion'

By promotion, that means I'd like work I float, or that we discuss, on
this list to specifically be aimed towards promoting WMF's projects:
* Spreading the word on our internal communications tools (pumps,
signpost, project info pages etc)
* bringing news and information to the wider public community by
discussing our projects in other non-WMF related sites/media.

I'd like to augment the first goal to involve communication between projects, and not simply promotion of projects. Promotion is a part of the picture, but communication involves more - including sharing experiences (successes, problems), discussing common issues, learning from and with each other. This is my own personal larger aim for Wikimedia - for it to become a true learning community, as a meta form of disseminating knowledge. It's something that we're really crying out for - to bring developers, community builders, editors, and users from across projects into closer and more productive contact - so that we can see what issues exist and how they can be addressed. If this fitted into a clearly visible Foundation initiative (which it obviously does as an agenda) it would also address issues of trust, which are clearly being eroded in some parts of the meta-community.

Cheers,
Cormac