Minutes of TWiki Jerusalem Release Meeting, 2012-04-27

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Friday, 2012-04-27 04:00 GMT (Convert to your time zone)
• Location: TWiki IRC channel #twiki_release on Freenode IRC (web-based IRC)

• Previous release meeting: JerusalemReleaseMeeting2012x04x13
• Next release meeting: JerusalemReleaseMeeting2012x05x11

• Participants
  • PeterThoeny ( PeterThoeny )
  • MichaelGulitz ( mgulitz )
  • VictorHeredia ( VictorHeredia )
  • VickiBrown ( Vicki )
  • RichMorin ( Vicki )
  • KarenNorton ( knorton )
  • TylerSlijboom ( tyatpi )
  • GeorgeTrubisky ( GeorgeTrubisky )
  • HeatherStern ( starshine )
  • HideyoImazu ( himazu )
  • EnriqueCadalso ( EnriqueCadalso )
  • PhillipHuang ( Phillip1 )
  • PeterJones ( PeterJones)
  • TimotheLitt ( timothe )
  • ChengappaCB ( Chengappa)
  • TomaszWalaszek ( tmw)
  • PaulReiber ( pbr)
  • CraigTobias ( CraigTobias)
  • SteveMokris ( smokris)
  • JulianCollins ( JulianC)
  • SopanShewale ( SopanShewale)
  • JitendraKavathekar ( Jeet)
  • JoenioCosta ( joenio)
  • IanKluft ( ko6yq-lt)
• Facilitated by PeterThoeny
• Notes taken by PeterThoeny

• Log of IRC meeting: JerusalemMeetingLog2012x04x27.txt

1. Feature Requests for Jerusalem Release

• Desired outcome: Discuss and decide on pending feature request that need attention
• See TWikiFeatureProposals

• (skipped)

2. Review Urgent and Not So Urgent Bugs

• Desired outcome: Identify must fixes
• See TWikibug:ReleaseBlocker

• (skipped)

3. TWiki Foundation Discussion

• Desired outcome: Creative ideas and actions on forming a TWiki Foundation to attract more developers
• See TWikiFoundation

• Values a TWiki foundation may bring to companies:
  • Continuous integration tools for admins.
  • A Foundation could fund development efforts that no one wants to fund individually and ensure the result is open source.
  • An app and plugin market place may be developed. Funds will be develop to jump start the critical mass of apps and developers to make the market place sustainable.
  • A foundation helps grow the ecosystem; once big enough it feeds itself.
  • Creating the bridge with the end users (organizations and companies) that use the technology is critical.
  • If we can enhance the idea of this technology as a true enabler of organizational processes in a simple way, organizations will see more value in the platform and adoption would even be greater.
  • The Foundation can fund developments in the methodology of using the technology.
  • Fund dashboards: Program managers and people managers LOVE dashboards.
  • Support efforts of the end users, meaning the learning, sales, marketing areas, who are the ones who are the ones paying for the applications and implementations.
  • The foundation must offer a clear vision of TWiki, a road map and development goals - this is important for companies who want to use TWiki.

4. Miscellaneous

• Note: Some regular participants were missing today, so we did an informal chat that was productive, see log for details.

• Marketing:
  • New TWikiScreenshots topic for evaluators to get a feel how TWiki looks like and what it can do, linked from TWiki.org homepage - it is working for us, now 200+ views/day - PTh
  • Vicki offered to resume the TWiki newsletter - thanks Vicki!

• Meetups:
  • PTh offered to organize an informal TWiki Dim Sum gathering in the Silicon Valley

• Release meetings:
  • Victor offered his virtual rooms system for the release meetings

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