Welcome to Portland, all! :) -- brion
On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 4:47 PM Victoria Coleman <vcole...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > This is a time of important change for technology and the Wikimedia > movement. We are evolving our platform to better support, grow, and prepare > the movement for the future to realize our strategic goals of Knowledge as > a Service and Knowledge Equity. > > Our vision is to host a different type of event in 2018 — to make informed > decisions in the evolution of our platform while building our technical > community engagement and enhancing our product vision. We want to be able > to gather and discuss to determine our future direction and that of our > shared platform; to communicate more broadly our product vision and to > build a solid and stable base for our volunteer developer community. Future > years will have have different focuses and themes. > > We also want to learn from our experiences during previous technically > oriented events to improve our focus, enhance outcomes, and to give > ourselves the time and space to have informed, substantive, and timely > conversations — this all starts with the overall theme of the event. > > The January 2018 Developer Summit (in Berkeley, California) event had a > broad goal to look at ways that technology can support our strategic > direction. A concrete outcome of those discussions was acknowledging the > need to evolve our core platform for the road ahead. In light of that > outcome, we will hold future events with themes that reflect our evolving > priorities and opportunities to support and enhance the Wikimedia movement > with technology. Therefore, our next technical event will be focused on > Platform Evolution. > > We will hold a 4 day conference with topics that pertain to the Platform > Evolution goals that we want to achieve in the next 3 to 5 years with a > shared understanding of the product vision around those goals while also > enhancing technical engagement within the Foundation and embracing and > empowering our large community of volunteer developers. > > > - Day 1: Product driven discussions on the how’s and why’s of our > shared goals. > - Day 2 & 3: A deep dive into specific technical ideas, concerns, and > outcomes around the newly formed Platform Evolution cross-departmental > program. > - Day 4: An unconference / ‘get stuff done’ format along with sessions > on building and sustaining our developer community. > > > We are also moving the time of year that we’ll hold this new event. The > previously established timeframe had been in January, typically adjacent to > the annual Foundation All Hands gathering, to allow for co-location of > events. However, feedback from both the DevSummit and All Hands > participants indicates that both events need more time to accomplish their > goals. All Hands is a once-a-year event that many teams use to come > together, face to face, for working meetings; as well as the entire > Foundation getting together for meetings. Going forward, we will decouple > the DevSummit from All Hands, to give both gatherings the time and space > that all attendees need to be productive and successful. > > This first of the event series will take place in Q2 of our fiscal year > 2018-2019, in October 2018, and will be held in Portland, OR, USA. This > timing was chosen to give us the opportunity to formulate plans, proposals, > and programs in time for the Foundation annual planning cycle which starts > in January 2019. > > Since we have a new focus and want to expand upon the successes of the > Developer Summit events from years past — we will now call this gathering > of like-minded technologists the Wikimedia Technical Conference (WM > TechCon). Stay tuned for more information on the formation of the program > committee and the participant’s selection process, as we are making quite a > few changes based on the feedback collected from previous events. > > Make sure to follow the event’s mediawiki page > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018> for > more details. > > > > Best wishes, > > Victoria Coleman > > Chief Technology Officer > Wikimedia Foundation > 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600 > San Francisco, CA 94104 > > +1-650-703-8112 > > vcole...@wikimedia.org > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
