[15:59:06] miriam_: in Cape Town, you met with a university professor who works in a Sub-Saharan country university. I'm forgetting all the details. Can you remind me of their name? [16:51:18] bmansurov: I see a new goal added to TEC-9 ("(Stretch) Identify a proper storage solution for the production-level API task T203039"). Can you give me some context why this is added if you know it (if not I'll ask Dario, no worries). [16:51:19] T203039: Storage of data for recommendation API - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203039 [16:51:47] bmansurov: I'm concerned that we're signing up for too much and may become too thin in the other items. [18:15:20] isaacj: hiiii. [18:15:38] :) [18:25:57] isaacj: nice to meet you! I'm James Hare, the product manager on the scoring platform team. [18:26:13] I'm working on a collaborative auditing system for ORES; I'd love to get your input at some point. [18:29:40] nice to meet you James! I would love to hear about that - perhaps later next week when I’m a bit more settled into things, put some time on my calendar to more formally meet and chat about it? [18:30:47] That sounds good. I'll give you some time to onboard :) [18:32:57] haha, thanks - i’m sure i’ll be much more useful as well when i’ve got some of my acronyms in place :) [18:46:18] o/ isaacj! [18:46:40] BTW, harej is on my team and he wants to talk to you about an auditing system we are standing up next to ORES :) [18:46:56] Godspeed with your onboarding in the meantime :) [18:48:16] Also, re. onboarding. isaacj, please ping me if you want some help getting setup in IRC. Once your ready, we'll get you a "Cloak" and give you voice in this channel. [18:48:33] yep, slowly making it onto the channels - i’ll coordinate with harej because very much sounds up my alley and would be exciting to hear where that is going! [18:56:12] leila: o/, the conversation about storage is already going on. I thought we may as well set it as a goal. [19:32:11] miriam: "(08:59:06 AM) leila: miriam_: in Cape Town, you met with a university professor who works in a Sub-Saharan country university. I'm forgetting all the details. Can you remind me of their name?" ;) [19:32:42] leila: yes, he was from Namibia. Not sure about the details, let me check! [19:33:17] bmansurov: yup. re storage conversations. Basically, my question is do you expect for them to conclude? Dario has advised on not to committing to stretch goals where we can as this will be a crazy quarter. [19:33:24] miriam: thanks. [19:34:26] leila: yes I expect so, we're very close. hopefully we can get this done in Q2. But as always things may not work out as we want. [19:34:48] ok, so if we're that close let's just call it a goal. [19:35:05] bmansurov: ^ [19:35:20] leila: since we're depending on other teams, it made more sense to call it a stretch goal [19:35:24] they maybe busy [19:35:34] bmansurov: have we cleared the dependency with them? [19:35:51] leila: yes, we're waiting on Services now [19:35:58] everything on our part is done for now [19:37:20] bmansurov: what I mean is: have we told them that we set this as a goal and will rely on them? That would be the best approach to make sure they set aside time. The soft/stretch model for tasks with dependencies is tricky. Generally stretch means that we get to it if we have enough time, in this case this is outside of our area. so it would be best to list it when other teams that need to be involved commit that they can work w [19:37:59] leila: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pgallert [19:38:14] leila: ok, let's remove it then [19:38:47] miriam: thanks. bmansurov: ok [19:39:59] miriam: just FYI, this is in the context of a Volkswagen Foundation grant on social inequality: https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/our-funding-portfolio-at-a-glance/global-issues-%E2%80%93-integrating-different-perspectives-on-social-inequality [19:41:03] miriam: the funding call mandates participation from low- and middle-income countries, which is good. [19:57:23] leila: thanks, nice! [20:32:14] isaacj: o/ great to see you here as well :) [20:37:07] Nettrom: thanks! expanding out!