<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">My understanding is that the main other initiative is coming from Finance, and is focused on spending donor money wisely for group travel (including but not limited to offsites). It includes travel, admin, and c-levels. They seem to be in kind of a planning and fact-finding phase right now. <br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><font color="#888888"><br>Kevin Smith<br>Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation<br></font></span><font><font><i><font color="#888888"><br></font></i></font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Joel Aufrecht <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaufrecht@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">jaufrecht@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Is there documentation or tracking tasks or home pages for the other initiatives? What are they focusing on?<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#888888"><div><b>-- <br>Joel Aufrecht<br></b></div><div>Team Practices Group<b><br></b></div><div>Wikimedia Foundation<br></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Kevin Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ksmith@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">ksmith@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I have posted a draft page[1] which will evolve into a checklist and linky portal, to help guide how to plan and run an offsite. It is a very early work in progress, but I hope to flesh it out substantially over the next week or two. At that point, I'll declare the related phab task[2] done. If you feel motivated to contribute, feel free to add to the checklist, or comment on the talk page. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As a side note, there are other initiatives in the foundation also aimed at documenting or improving the processes for offsites. This (TPG) part will focus mostly on the content and outcomes. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br>[1] <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Planning_offsites" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki<wbr>/Team_Practices_Group/Planning<wbr>_offsites</a><br>[2] <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138777" target="_blank">https://phabricator.wikimedia.<wbr>org/T138777</a><span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><font color="#888888"><br>Kevin Smith<br>Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation<br></font></span><font><font><i><font color="#888888"><br></font></i></font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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