On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 12:09 -0700, Pine W wrote:
Hi Brian, I was told by a WMF non-management employee that they have little discretion about which projects they're working on, and that the decisions about priorities come top-down. Hence my interest in engaging with the quarterly planning processes and the people managing those processes to see if there's a way to get community input into the teams' quarterly goals.
WMF is made up of several teams. For a list, click "Organizational overview" on https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff?showall=1 Some members of some teams might either be or have the feeling of being more influenced by potential top-down priorities. Others less.
About engaging with the planning processes and people:
For Engineering, the main goals and contacts for Oct-Dec are here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals
That page links to each team's homepages (they are also linked from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering ) which should cover the planning processes, communication/contact info, etc.
Hope that helps a bit?
Cheers, andre