Hi all.

WMF Engineering is currently composed of individual teams as documented at 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering . These teams look after 
the software that faces us everyday, and often work together.

Could we please have some more people (potentially a dedicated ‘community’ 
team) who could do these things:
- encourage feedback by absolutely /anyone/ about the next features they'd like,
- run programming and documentation activities requested (or started) by 
community [there would be a lot of small projects, unlike the big ones the 
current Teams are working on],
- encourage localising documentation for, and centralising the location of, all 
community-developed programming work,
- raise awareness of community development efforts across all Wikimedia 
projects,
- actively encourage members of community become MediaWiki and Gadgets hackers 
in the Free Software philosophy?

This would be, in my view, a relatively small, collaboration-type team (with 
just half a handful of people for timezone coverage for IRC support).

Open to brainstorming and suggestions. I would compile thoughts into a wiki 
page afterwards to continue thinking on the idea.

Regards
Gryllida.

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