Community meeting/2010-02-01

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

Contents

Attendees

At 631 Howard:

Via Skype or IRC:

Agenda

  • What has the community been up to lately?
    • Mailing list merge
      • increase in breadth of discussions
      • renewed interest in / advocacy for / experimentation with import tools
    • PHP library
    • Java library/tools by narphorium
    • Feedback re: User:Skud/Freebase homepage -- more opinions needed
  • Community roadmap
    • Meta discussion re: community focus
    • Wiki integration into Freebase.com
    • Prioritisation of platform/apps
  • Meetups and other events
    • SF Meetup Feb 10th
  • General Q&A
    • Add questions here if you want them discussed!

Notes

NB: we had major trouble with Skype so we sort of did a parallel skype/irc thing. IRC log here.

Recent community activity

Mailing list merge

  • Check out the traffic growth!
  • Responses:
    • Stefano likes it
    • People don't seem shy, seem happy to raise thoughts or what they're working on
    • More inclusive, less stuff hidden
    • Need to finish the transition.

Other

  • Lots of good interest in refactoring in the Commons recently (mostly off Discuss posts)

Community roadmap

  • Historically, there has been tension between community and commercial goals on Freebase.com. This hasn't been ideal for either side.
  • Going forward, these will be more cleanly separated: different experiences for site-owners/commercial interests vs. community/contributors (many links will be retained between the two, however)
    • specifically, the topic page will revert to a community-friendly, contribution-focused page (the consumer page will still be available elsewhere, but it won't get in our way)
    • other parts of the site (eg. homepage) will be able to focus more on community needs
    • community will have increased autonomy and control

Wiki as doc homepage

  • We will be using the wiki as the central repository for docs and integrating it into freebase.com
  • Work to do:
    • theme/style
    • migrate/delete old help stuff from freebase.com (and add redirects)
    • improve front page and general structure of wiki to help people find stuff

Open source approach to tools

  • We want to give more prominence to community-built Acre apps and integrate them more strongly into Freebase.com. Eg.
    • expert tools
    • contribution-focused apps / data games
  • To do this we need better workflows for collaboration on Acre apps, i.e. a fuller open source development model
  • Daniel O'Connor's suggestions re: "request adminship"
  • Patch/merge flow -- in progress!

Prioritisation of platform/apps

  • What does the community want most for Freebase.com?
  • What is the best way of gathering this? (mailing list, Jira, wiki)

Meetups

SF Freebase Meetup, 10th Feb

Speakers:

  • Michael re: wordpress plugin
  • Brian K re: something data pipeline related
  • Raymond Yee re: open government

Other

If you would like to have a meetup in your city, or talk about Freebase at another meetup/event/conference/whatever, let us know and we can help. (Specifically, contact Kirrily.)

General Q&A

  • ...

Meta

Skype sucked today! Need to consider whether to keep using Skype like this, switch to IRC, or what. We should poll the community before the next meeting and discuss what's the best way to do it.

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