FamilySearch Wiki:Technical Meeting

Welcome to the Wiki Technical Meeting Ask questions and share what you've learned The Wiki currently has 103,319 articles in English

Purpose and Time Come forge solutions with other community contributors. We discuss content, technical issues, workarounds, community, site design, and strategy. This is a conference call meeting every Tuesdays from 2:00-3:00 PM (mountain time). Community members are welcome to suggest topics for the agenda by posting in the Community Meeting Forum thread or by adding the suggestions to the weekly agenda discussion pages.

Upcoming Meetings

• 24 August 2010 Agenda; join the live meeting; ID 5934
• 31 August 2010 Agenda; join the live meeting; ID5159

Past Meetings

• 1 June 2010 meeting notes or recording; if needed the ID is 1656
• 8 June 2010 meeting notes, or recording; if needed the ID is 5521
• 15 June 2010 meeting notes, or recording; if needed the ID is 3558
• 22 June 2010 meeting notes, or recording; if needed the ID is 1374
• 29 June 2010 conducted by Chris; meeting notes, or recording; if needed the ID is 7859
• 6 July 2010 conducted by Fran; meeting notes, or recording; if needed the ID is 6678
• 13 July 2010 conducted by Steve; meeting notes, or recording; if needed the ID is 2073
• 20 July 2010 conducted by Fran; meeting notes, or recording; if needed the ID is 0518
• 27 July 2010 conducted by Fran; meeting notes, recording; if needed the ID is 8780
• 10 August 2010 meeting notes; listen to the recording; ID 7017
• 17 August 2010 meeting notes; listen to the recording; ID 8235

• To view meeting notes and listen to recordings from past meetings between 2008-2010, please visit the archive page

Historical Perspective

The community meeting started off as a user group meeting with a lot of the discussions centered around the early development of the wiki. Currently the meeting is centered around some of the technical aspects of the wiki, development of the content and procedures. Some of the attendees that have regularly attended these meetings both past and present include: Jimmy, Lise, Laralee, Thomas, JamesA, SteveC, Chris, Dsammy, JudyW, DonS, The Earl, Bromaelor, Michael, Alan, Baerbel, Bakerbh, LynnT, AnneW, KaraW, Diltsgd, Familyjournals, DavidC, Fran, G Fröberg Morris, Genguide, Molliewog, Nixiao, Darris. If anyone was missed, please update this list!

Stay Informed Stay informed by visiting the FamilySearch Wiki Forum and by viewing the following pages: Wiki Development Backlog (A separate registration and login will be required.) Wiki Product Backlog Wiki Known Issues New Features

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