Wikimedia Developer Summit: Technology for the Movement Strategy
January 22-23, 2018 - David Brower Center, Berkeley, California, USA
Lessons Learned from the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018 Feedback Survey can be found here: Wikimedia Developer Summit/2018/Lessons Learned
Overview
The intention of this year’s Summit is to provide input for Phase 2 of the movement strategy process. Each session will produce a recommendation for inclusion in the Phase 2 process. Read the Thematic overview here. Participants of this event agree to follow the Friendly Space Policy and the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia Technical Spaces.
Registration for the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018 is closed and we are not able to accommodate any more participants.
Main topics
The program committee has been busy at work reviewing position statements themes and narrowing them down into main topic areas
Here is the final list of session topics for the Wikimedia Developer Summit. Each topic will have a small team of "Topic Leaders" those people will help facilitate around the topic before, during and after the Summit. The participants of each session are expected to share their thoughts and be active participants. We are looking for a two-way discussion and not a lecture type sessions. See communications to topic leaders here: Wikimedia Developer Summit/2018/Communications
- phab:T183315 - notes: Knowledge as a Service
- phab:T183312 - notes: Supporting Third-Party Use of MediaWiki
- phab:T183313 - notes: Evolving the MediaWiki Architecture
- phab:T183314 - notes: Next Steps for Languages and Cross Project Collaboration
- phab:T183317 - notes: Advancing the Contributor Experience
- phab:T183318 - notes: Growing the MediaWiki Technical Community
- phab:T183319 - notes: Embracing Open Source Software
- phab:T183320 - notes: Research Analytics and Machine Learning
We will have no more than two sessions at a time and we have created a scheduling algorithm that looks at the topics mentioned in people's position papers and will help us to schedule sessions side by side that don't have much participant interest overlap.
Links and Resources
Schedule
Logistics
Participate
- Participants, Position Statements, and Keynote speakers
- Purpose and desired results of the Summit - guidance for session organizers and participants.
- All volunteers who requested a scholarship and have been approved to attend have also been approved for that scholarship.
- Summary of survey requests from Participants
- Facilitation
Resources
- Friendly Space Policy
- Code of Conduct for Wikimedia Technical Spaces
- Note taking guidelines
- Emergency Services
Organizing Team / Program Committee
Organizing team
 Rachel Farrand: Event Manager, program Committee facilitation (rfarrand Rachel Farrand: Event Manager, program Committee facilitation (rfarrand wikimedia.org) wikimedia.org)
 Deb Tankersley: Program Committee facilitation Deb Tankersley: Program Committee facilitation
 Joel Aufrecht: Program Committee facilitation Joel Aufrecht: Program Committee facilitation
 Sarah Rodlund: Administration lead Sarah Rodlund: Administration lead
 Megan Neisler: Administration Megan Neisler: Administration
 Lani Goto: Administration Lani Goto: Administration
 Melody Kramer: Communications Melody Kramer: Communications
 Nick Wilson: Documentation & Wiki Nick Wilson: Documentation & Wiki
Program Committee
 Victoria Coleman: CTO of the WMF, Program Committee lead Victoria Coleman: CTO of the WMF, Program Committee lead
 Moriel Schottlender, Senior Software Developer, Global Collaboration, WMF Moriel Schottlender, Senior Software Developer, Global Collaboration, WMF
 Derk-Jan Hartman: Volunteer MediaWiki developer and Wikipedian Derk-Jan Hartman: Volunteer MediaWiki developer and Wikipedian
 Matanya Moses, allround Wikimedian, Israel Matanya Moses, allround Wikimedian, Israel
 Lydia Pintscher: Product Manager of Wikidata, WMDE Lydia Pintscher: Product Manager of Wikidata, WMDE
 Santhosh Thottingal: Senior Software Engineer, Global Collaboration, WMF Santhosh Thottingal: Senior Software Engineer, Global Collaboration, WMF
 Raimond Spekking: Freelance MediaWiki developer and Wikipedian Raimond Spekking: Freelance MediaWiki developer and Wikipedian
 Daniel Kinzler: Principal Platform Engineer at WMDE, Chair of TechCom Daniel Kinzler: Principal Platform Engineer at WMDE, Chair of TechCom
 Cindy Cicalese: Product Manager of the MediaWiki platform Cindy Cicalese: Product Manager of the MediaWiki platform
 Timo Tijhof: Principal Performance Engineer at the WMF, member of TechCom Timo Tijhof: Principal Performance Engineer at the WMF, member of TechCom
 Brion Vibber: Lead Software Architect at WMF, member of TechCom Brion Vibber: Lead Software Architect at WMF, member of TechCom
Friendly Space Team
 Lucie Kaffee Lucie Kaffee
 Rachel Farrand Rachel Farrand
 Nick Wilson Nick Wilson
 Moriel Schottlender Moriel Schottlender
Please help us to ensure an open and culturally friendly event. If you need to report anything you can talk with an of us in person or email wmds18fsp wikimedia.org. We are here to help!
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Participants of this event agree to follow the Friendly Space Policy and the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia Technical Spaces.
Previous summits
- Wikimedia Developer Summit/2017
- Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016
- MediaWiki Developer Summit 2015
- 2014 Architecture Summit
- 2013: All-Hands/Tech Days
- 2012 (Sept): All-Hands/Tech Days
- 2012 (Jan): San Francisco Hackathon
- Other All-Hands/Tech Days likely documented in the page history
