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
--
deb tankersley (she/her)
program manager, engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
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