Hi Quim,
Thanks for the invitation. I did not attend Wikimania but would be
interested in setting up an office hour to discuss ideas about improving
features design and development, including TechCom and the roles of tech
ambassadors, ECT, and ECL in features. Could we set up a time off-list?
Pine
On Aug 8, 2014 1:10 AM, "Quim Gil" <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Pine W
<wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Quim, it seems to me that the methods used by
Features have repeatedly
produced troubled results over the years, so it's time for a different
approach.
Note that the approach of empowering Tech Ambassadors to explicitly
represent the voice of the content communities hasn't been tried yet. To
me, this is also "a different approach".
Grantmaking has a community-intensive approach
to making major decisions and I think the same approach should be
taken in Features. I am optimistic that embedding the community deeply in
leading Features would be a long-term change for the better. I believe
that
the Tech Ambassadors aren't empowered to make
high-level community
recommendations about Features as the Technical Committee is intended
to do, although Tech Ambassadors may want to volunteer to serve on the
Technical Committee and/or be integrated into its work. I would like to
invite
you and the Tech Ambassadors to participate in the discussion about the
Technical Committee on the Board Noticeboard [1].
The Wikimedia Engineering Community Team can work here and now on the
specific goal of "let's empower people to serve on the Wikimedia
Engineering Community Team". We can work with the 'people' interested to
bring them closer to the development process and tell them how to
participate in it effectively.
This line of work doesn't get in the way of a potential Technical
Committee. I just think that if a committee like that should exist, their
potential members should be active at e.g.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals and
related planning pages already today, because the possibility to ask and
influence already exists.
Anyway, I should have a shower and some breakfast before running to
Wikimania. If you happen to be in London and you find this topic exciting,
I will be very happy to share a chat with or without coldBeverage().
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