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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">It has been a month since the Wikimedia Technical Conference[1] and the year is winding down, so it seemed like a good time to send an update on the Platform Evolution Program[2]. Specifically, I wanted to let you all know how the Core Platform Team will be following up on the great work coming out the conference.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">For those who didn’t attend, the primary goal of the conference was to produce the building blocks to develop a 3-5 year platform roadmap, which in turn will enable us to achieve our program goal: Evolve our technology platform and development processes to empower the Wikimedia Movement. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">Each session was designed to generate action items, decisions, and goals that will become the building blocks of the roadmap. Session leaders, scribes, facilitators and attendees worked hard to capture these outcomes in notes on wiki[3] and in Phabricator[4] (thanks again to all who helped with this process! 🙏)</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">Following TechConf, the Core Platform Team along with members of the Conference Committee has been reviewing all of the session notes and aggregating major outcomes into a single document. We are working to publish this document on MediaWiki.org by the new year and will send out another email when we do so that you will know where to find them. We will also be asking attendees to review this wiki to ensure we didn’t miss anything important. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">There are also teams and attendees are independently following up on TechConf outcomes alongside this formal process - this includes authoring RFCs and planning projects. Once the initial review of the materials is complete, we will be reaching out to individuals and teams to see how the Platform Evolution Program and Core Platform Team can support their work.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">In addition to guiding the 3-5 year platform roadmap, the outcomes from TechConf will be used as input into annual planning and the Q3/Q4 work for the Platform Evolution Program. The WMF officially begins the 3-5 year strategy and annual planning in January, so we will have more updates as that process kicks off.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">On behalf of the the Conference Committee, Core Platform Team and the Platform Evolution Program, I would again like to thank everyone who attended and contributed to the conference. Your time, work and input were essential to the success of the event and will be invaluable to the development of the Platform Evolution Program.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">[1] <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018</a></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">[2] </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Platform_Evolution">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Platform_Evolution</a></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">[3] </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018/Session_notes">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018/Session_notes</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-technical-conference-2018/">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-technical-conference-2018/</a></span></p><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif"><div>Corey Floyd</div><div>Director of Engineering, Core Platform</div><div>Wikimedia Foundation</div><div><a href="mailto:cfloyd@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">cfloyd@wikimedia.org</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>