Community meeting/2009-11-02

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This week's meeting will be an open one. Anyone can be part of it via Skype. See Community Meeting via Skype for details.

Contents

Attendees

At 631 Howard:

Via Skype:

Agenda

  • What has the community been up to in the last week?
  • Community roadmap
  • Communication (blog posts etc.)
  • Offensive content
  • Meetups
  • General community Q&A
    • Add questions here in advance, if you like

Outcomes/notes

Recent community activity

  • Apps
    • AskKen visualisation app has been getting a lot of press
    • Ruby library "Ken" released along with it (incl. topic API)
  • Invitations to new Experts: pmackay, frankschloeffel, hangy
    • Paul and Frank have accepted, no response from hangy yet
    • Blog post needed!
  • Working on redesign of Review queue
    • tfmorris has been particulary helpful finding weird behaviour/bugs
  • sprocketonline has been made admin of Education and Travel commons
    • note this Acre tool that shows commonseses still needing non-staff admins

Roadmap

META-DISCUSSION

  • What is the Release process within Metaweb?
  • How do we tell which services are alpha/beta/released/experimental/whatever?
  • Particular difficulty with experimental/labs/etc - need internal meeting?

Next few weeks

Client release 111
  • Persistent edit mode?
Client release 112
Schema
  • Address refactoring
  • Official websites
  • Offensive content
RABJ
  • Pretty close to release time
  • Tutorial, docs are in place
  • Acre library is done
  • Explorer is in place
  • Shailesh back from India soon - should help get things moving more quickly
  • email to the expert list in a few days
  • after that (~2 weeks) release to dev list and blog
Split tool
  • Bryan (cheunger) has been working on a Split tool
  • Phil (pak21) was given a sneak preview -- any comments?
  • What is the rollout plan?
Gardening tasks in Jira

Next few months

New website schema

Offensive content

  • Jeff, Kirrily, Jason, and Ariel met to discuss schema for Offensive content
  • Earlier plan (sent to d-m list etc) was to have Bucket types for Restricted and Moderate content
  • However, there are problems with this:
  • Proposed alternative: bare properties
  • In future, would like to have an Envelope parameter on MQL queries to specify what level of content you want
    • JG and Warren confirm that bare properties are the best thing to do in schema to lead to this eventual goal
  • Kirrily developed draft guidelines for what is Restricted/Moderate content, asked Freebase Experts for review
  • Jeff to roll out schema ASAP
  • Future work (in approximate implementation order):
    • RABJ/Acre app to review topics flagged as offensive and assign them Safe/Moderate/Restricted ratings
    • Gardening task(s) to auto-assign ratings to eg. films with genre = "pornography"
    • the aforementioned MQL envelope parameter
    • Freebase client to act appropriately wrt restricted content

Meetup plan

  • Kirrily would like to help people run meetups in various places around the world (or get involved in existing meetups)
  • Last week, set up Meetups page as a central place for information about this
  • Looking at using Meetup.com's sponsorship system (which is good for meetup groups that use that system, at least). Sponsorship can be monetary, meeting space, schwag, or whatever -- very flexible.
  • Will start running monthly meetup in San Francisco (Nth Wednesday)

Communication

Blog posts:

  • one about this meeting -- link to minutes
  • topic API
  • new experts

General Q&A

  • Nothing really came up... but if you have any thoughts on how this meeting went, process, etc, please let Kirrily know before the next one.
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