Heya, The Program Committee for the Architecture Summit has published a proposed program: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014 Highlights of the Program: 1) We have tried to incorporate flexibility into the program by allowing 4 unconference break-out slots, 1 open plenary session and a daily ‘agenda bashing’ session to make adjustments to the program if the need arises. 2) There are 3 plenary sessions: HTML Templating ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/HTML_templating), Service Oriented Architecture ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/Service-oriented_ar…) and one open slot. Possible candidates for the open session include Performance and UI styling but this will be decided during the Summit. The short list will include the higher vote-getters in the straw poll, so if there’s one of the clusters you strongly feel should be part of the program, now is your time to make that case. 3) There are 6 breakout sessions: * 2 planned: UI styling ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/UI_styling) and Storage Services ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/Storage_services) * 4 unconference slots There will be a round of Lightning Talks at the beginning of the plenary session after the breakout session to summarize what happened by answering the following questions: a) What did you try to achieve? b) What did you decide? c) What are the next steps? 4) Architecture Panel and Value discussion. This is a plenary session for the architects to share what they value in good architecture, as well as talk about how they see the architecture of MediaWiki evolving, and what role people other than our historical core group of three have to play in the process. During this session, we hope to at least answer some of the questions outlined in the recent discussion of the RFC process[1] 5) RFC roulette: a one hour closing session for RFC’s that have not been in the spotlight during the Summit and where the next step can be decided. This is intended to be fast paced and slightly chaotic. If you would like to hear what’s next for your RFC please participate with the roulette by adding your name to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/RFC_roulette What does the Program Committee expect from summit participants? a) If you are a participant, please familiarize yourself with the latest version of the RFC’s that you care about. b) If you are an author of an RFC that is scheduled in a plenary session, please start preparing in collaboration with the other authors from the same session on a short slidedeck that summarizes all the different RFC’s. One slide that could be really useful is to have a matrix that highlights key differences between alternative / competing proposals. Diederik will contact the folks who are invited for the plenary session to help coordinate and organize. c) If you are an author of an RFC that is scheduled in a breakout session, please create maximum 3 slides that summarize your RFC and think about what you want to get out of your session. The slides are optional, but the requisite level of preparation is not. d) If you want to run an unconference slot then start thinking about a theme and possible co-organizers. It’s okay to use an existing RFC cluster. Two quick final notes: The Program has been created using the input from the straw poll ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/Straw_poll), input from the Program Committee and input from the Engineering Community Team. To see which RFC’s compose a cluster please have a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/RFC_clusters Looking forward to your feedback! Best regards, The Program Committee [1] Discussion of the RFC process: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Process#