On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:29 AM Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] Are there any upcoming plans for systematic > study or development of WMF-to-public communications processes from > Audiences and Technology? >
Not quite the same thing, but touches on communication: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Growth_and_diversity_of_Technology_team_audiences There are a couple existing ways to learn about new developments, though. There is Tech News (focused on immediate user-facing changes), quarterly department checkins (focused on the big picture and progress of annual plan goals and other large projects), most teams have a monthly or sometimes weekly newsletter and/or on-wiki updates page, there are some regular showcases (research and more recently language), and people write blog posts about larger or more interesting developments on Phabricator and the WMF blog. (The discoverability of all of these things could certainly be improved.) And if you are sufficiently interested in a specific team, team Phabricator boards are public. On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:29 AM Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019, 9:31 AM Dan Garry (Deskana) <djgw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 20:25, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I would like to request that every Audiences and Technology team submit > > > highlights of recent and upcoming activities for inclusion in every set > > of > > > SoS notes, even if no one personally attends the SoS meeting from a > > > particular team, so that readers of these notes can keep better track > of > > > what is happening in the Audiences and Technology departments and so > that > > > readers can make adjustments to our own plans as needed. > > > > > > Scrum of scrums meetings are intended to be a venue for development teams > > to surface upcoming blockers and dependencies on other teams, so that > teams > > can better work together and not block each other. Scrum of scrums > meetings > > are not intended to be a forum for general announcements about activities > > by end-users. These are very different use cases with different target > > audiences. > > > > I understand your concerns about visibility of the actions inside the > > Wikimedia Foundation. It's certainly difficult to see things from the > > outside. That said, taking a meeting with a well-defined purpose and > > objective, and expanding that objective to add an additional, quite > > different use case, is not good practice; doing so may cause people to > > disengage or lose focus, thereby meaning the original objective of the > > meeting is no longer met. > > > > Some reading you might find useful: > > > > - https://www.agilealliance.org/glossary/scrum-of-scrums/ > > - https://www.scruminc.com/scrum-of-scrums/ > > > > Dan > > > > Hi Dan, > > That is helpful. Perhaps the info I am seeking would be better communicated > in a different way. I am reluctant to request a new communications process > that would require nontrivial effort to start and to maintain if I am the > only one who is interested. Are there any upcoming plans for systematic > study or development of WMF-to-public communications processes from > Audiences and Technology? If so, perhaps I could have a conversation with > whomever will work on that communications effort. > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
