IT Development/Progress meetings/Agenda 7 January 2014
Connection details
The meeting starts at 2pm. Some members will be present in person at the WMUK offices.
Agenda
Where the item is being introduced or led by a particular person this is indicated in brackets. Actions are included as sub-items below. If an action is completed, then please add {{tick}} at the end of the line! Please highlight priority items for discussion in bold below.
- Meeting logistics
- ACTION: KB to email tech@ after December board meeting to check availability of committee and developers. Done
- Nomination of chair and minute-taker (KB)
- Apologies and Introductions
- Policy and impact
- Some feedback from the board (MM)
- Thoughts about making an impact via larger projects, and how to achieve that
- Staffing to achieve impact
- QRPedia (list of current tasks here)
- VLE (See latest progress report)
- Writing Community-wide tools?
- eg taking the lead on developing analytics tools? (which WMF is doing only very slowly)
- eg Tools to improve accessibility?
- Writing Lua modules, or training?
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- Technical & detail
- Maintenance (KB)
- ACTION: TM/EE to expand the service portfolio page to indicate who is maintaining each service Done
- ACTION: KB to review notifications that EE sends to Tech@ and share most important ones on community mailing list/Water cooler as appropriate
- ACTION: KB/TM to work on install and complementary write-up of how to use Bugzilla pre-next Tech Committee meeting
- ACTION: KB to set up a projects request page, and corresponding email address to support confidential notifications.
- ACTION: KB to create a UKReg account for MP to log in and clear up domain name details. Done
- ACTION: EE to move the main WMUK wiki from wiki.wikimedia.org.uk to www.wikimedia.org.uk Done
- ACTION: EE to chase up redirecting uk.wikimedia.org to the new wiki location Doing...
- ACTION: KTC/HB to encourage the updating of interwikis on the Wikimedia projects so that the WMUK interwiki link points to the new wiki location.
- ACTION: RN to use the mailing list and watercooler to ask if people had experienced any negative impact following the implementation of https.
- ACTION: FTP service - buy Rackspace (£12/month for first 100GB) provisionally for 6 months as a trial
- ACTION: Voice recording - KB to move AM’s bug on bugzilla to the UK wiki and email tech com with link
- Virtual Learning Environment (TM)
- ACTION: KB to arrange an urgent phonecall on VLE, SB/TM/KB to discuss costs and use Done
- ACTION: KB to update CM and ask for his suggestions
- ACTION: CM to use bugzilla for project management
- QRpedia (KB)
- ACTION: KB to:
- log the transfer of the QRpedia blog as an RT ticket
- forward testing email to RB, TE and Andy Mabbett (AM) to look for bugs
- work on assumption that the DNS can switch to a debugged WMUK installation on 4th March 2013
- work with RB to identity key existing users
- contact known existing users, and forward emails to wikimediauk-l and cultural partners mailing lists, to inform of change when date known, and before transfer
- ACTION: KB to create list on WMUK Wiki AND DT would mirror WMUK Wiki page onto Meta AND KC would modify page for translation.
- ACTION: KB to undertake following after DNS changeover:
- chat to Stevie Benton (SB) about ideas for promoting engagement.
- set up a page inviting discussion about new applications or contexts for us
- ACTION: RB to liaise with Saad Choudry/WMUK Board as appropriate and confirm any terms that need to be taken into consideration before KB to proceed with promoting wider engagement/generation of ideas.
- ACTION: To expedite technical development, it was decided to create a page on the WMUK wiki to collate and update what is known about current QRpedia users (KB)
- ACTION: KB to clarify the degree of separation of IP required with Saad Choudry - i.e is a separate registrar sufficient or would separate server hosting be necessary?
- ACTION: KB to log transfer or shared access of the QRpedia twitter account as a task following transfer.
- ACTION: KB to log transfer or shared access of the QRpedia blog as a task following transfer.
- ACTION: EE to ensure code shared in WMF code repository Done
- ACTION: EE to expand stub of project page on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QRpedia Done
- ACTION: KB to ask CEO and Saad Choudry for an update
- ACTION: RN to write to Jonathan to see how GLAM committee can use QRpedia, copy RB in.
- ACTION: KB to consult with TM and RB to see if transfer can wait until late December to minimise disruption of service. Keep Tech Com updated using tech@ Done
- ACTION: KB to:
- CiviCRM (EE)
- ACTION: KB to turn turn off 'forward to a friend' function and to talk to KTC about suggested two-stage notification click process.
- Usage of non-EU systems, particularly with regards PRISM (EE)
- ACTION: EE and TM to present a report at the next full Tech Com meeting. Done A proposal of policy
- Mediawiki (EE/TM)
- OTRS (EE)
- ACTION: KB to update on this by email
- Hackathons (KB)
- ACTION: KB to update on this by email
- Virtual presence (KB)
- ACTION: KB to update on this by email
- Europeana (KB)
- Email use policy (KB)
- ACTION: KB to update on this by email
- Planet (HB)
- Toolserver
- ACTION: Committee members with concerns about disbursing the unspent funds differently to email around Tech@; KB to pick up on any consensus about alternate approaches.
- Tech manager hire
- ACTION: KB and RN to draft job description and circulate drafting page to tech@
- AOB
- Wiki user rights
- ACTION: KTC to raise issue about wiki user rights by email
- (HB) Resolve bug #35 by agreeing destination for new bug emails
- Wiki user rights
- Date of next meeting (including defining the exact date and place before the meeting closes).
- Other