(For other readers: Pine appears to refer to the publication of the minutes from the quarterly review meeting for the Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking team, announced in a separate thread at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-October/074824.html )
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Tilman, thanks for those notes.
As mentioned at the top of the page, these minutes were actually taken by Anna Koval and Maria Cruz. (I had been unable to attend this particular review due to a conflicting meeting.) So the thanks should go to them ;)
There was discussion awhile ago about involving the community in quarterly reviews,
I don't recall that discussion, do you have a link?
and I have some questions and comments about this review, mostly for Lila.
Sure! Feel free to leave them on the talk page - as community members have already been doing with other reviews this week.
However, I would like to see the notes from the "group" mentioned at the end of the quarterly review before I make comments, or if there is an opportunity for community participation in the "group", I would like to participate in a community capacity, if that is ok. (:
Well, again, I wasn't at the meeting myself, but my interpretation of that sentence is that "to group about this" simply was a somewhat colloquial expression meaning to have a smaller followup meeting between staff from the Product team and from the Grantmaking team, including Erik and possibly Lila, about the particular issue in question - technical support for grantmaking work which would need dedicated time from WMF software developers in the Product team. I'm not sure what you meant by "the notes" - please be aware that not every WMF staff meeting has a designated minute-taker - and in any case "group" was a verb here, not a noun ;)