Thank you Rob! I am looking forward to Wednesday meeting.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm hoping we find a way to work with people who
can't
travel, and noting we're also working to make remote participation
more rewarding. This emphasizes the importance of WikiDev17 being a
better event for online attendance this year, and the primacy of
online conversations in our community's decision making.
Indeed. Anyone interested in improving remote participation in the Summit,
please check
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146613
Quim is
chairing the program committee, and I'm one of the
members, but my
understanding from Quim is that we're still waiting for some invitees
to respond.
Yes, I will send them a reminder. In any case, I think we have critical
mass:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/About
all of the scheduled topics had Phab IDs associated
with them.
I agree that RfCs are useful in some cases but not in all of them. However,
I would still keep a single way to submit proposals as Phabricator tasks,
in order to have one place with all the proposals. If the promoters of a
specific proposal want to have the discussion elsewhere (in an RfC page, a
plain wiki page...) then they can simply put a disclaimer in the task
description and move the discussion there.
There are two possible novelties related to proposed and scheduled
activities that we could try at the Summit:
* Phabricator form to submit Wikimedia developer Summit 2017 proposals
(urgent because it blocks the opening of the call for participation)
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146377
* Consider using Phabricator Calendar events to schedule Wikimedia
Developer Summit sessions (we have more time for this one)
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146749
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil