Hi all,

We wanted to give a quick update on what happened during day 1 of the Wikimedia Technical Conference https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019, in Atlanta, Georgia.

*Tuesday https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019/Program#Day_1_-_Tuesday_November_12th, November 12, 2019:* The first day of the event started out with the morning sessions concentrating on welcoming the participants, reviewing what has been done since last year's event, and what we want to accomplish at this year's event (notes https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMTC19-intro / slides https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Tech_Conf_2019_Opening_slides.pdf ).

The afternoon sessions concentrated on:

- Our local development environment - Core (notes https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMTC19-T234632, ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234632) - Front-end modernization and standardization (notes https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMTC19-T234649, ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234649) - Componentization and sharing with the open source community (notes https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMTC19-T234654, ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234654) - System level testing: patterns and anti-patterns with Selenium (notes https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMTC19-T234635, ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234635) - Continuous Delivery/Deployment in Wikimedia: The Future of the Deployment Pipeline (notes https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMTC19-T234641, ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234641) - Integrating contributions from other teams or volunteers (notes https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMTC19-T234662, ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234662)

We ended the afternoon with finishing up documentation from the day's sessions, taking pictures of the session notes, and then uploading into phabricator (goat sticker sample https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMTC19_Goat_stickers_day_1.jpg and badge https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMTC19_badge_and_candy.jpg). Photos and documentation that have been uploaded can be viewed using this category https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_2019 : Category:Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019.

Cheers,

The Wikimedia Technical Conference Program Committee

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deb tankersley (she/her)

program manager, engineering

Wikimedia Foundation