[teampractices] More public team meetings

[Quim Gil]

Hi there,

The Engineering Community Team has a weekly meeting on Tuesdays. Each of 
the 4 members of the team has quite individual tasks and we are all 
remote (from each other). So far we haven't seen a need to do a daily 
sync of sorts.

Last week, before team coordinator Sumana went on a 3 month sabbatical, 
we agreed to do some experimentation with the meetings during this period.

Today we have agreed to convert two of these internal meetings in public 
meetings:

* ECT Showcase (last Tuesday of the month) - Showing completed tasks and 
sharing short term plans. Video hangout + streaming.

* ECT Office Hour (second Tuesday of the month) - Pre-scheduled topics 
followed by Q&A. IRC (with Meetbot!)

The idea of the showcase came because Rob (Sumana's manager) wanted to 
join once a month and see what we had accomplished. It's a very good 
idea, and now the rest of the community will be able to join our show & 
tell  ;)  as well.

Note that both meetings will leave a good record: a video streamed or 
IRC meeting minutes and log you can check any time.

We expect to get more out of these meetings keeping the same amount of 
calendar slots. We also look forward to coordinate better with our 
neighbors at the WMF (especially the community liaisons, LCA and Comms) 
thanks to this reorganization of meetings.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_Community_Team/Meetings

-- 
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil