Joint Leadership Meeting - March 31, 2023

In conjunction with the Selenium Conference, we had an in-person meeting of the Selenium Leadership Team (both Technical and Project Leadership Committees).

Participation

People present included:

Agenda

  • Define a sustainable way of collaborating between TLC/PLC/SFC
    • Possibility for a TLC seat on the PLC to better integrate groups
    • Schedule for regular meetings
  • Ideas for our current budget
    • List of proposed ideas
  • Collaboration / integration with Appium
  • Define ‘roles’ for PLC (e.g., development, outreach, community, events, documentation, marketing)
  • Pushing the ambassador program forward
  • Marketing and promotion
    • Supporting ecosystem projects
  • Conduct virtual fix a bug workshops
    • Train trainers

Collaboration

  • Proposed that PLC to have a meeting structure similar to TLC, with public monthly meetings, including an editable rolling agenda and published minutes.
  • Discussed what things need to be private to PLC — legal, financial, membership related
  • Suggested that transparency isn’t the problem so much as lack of time and focus
  • Noted that there is currently no overlap between the TLC and PLC, and proposed the TLC should choose a representative to PLC.
    • It was agreed in principle to have a TLC representative on the PLC for a set time, and not bound by the employer restrictions
  • Proposed putting all documents and proposals in the same place
  • Proposed using RFC process (didn’t discuss details)
  • Discussed using GitHub for collaboration; it was pointed out we have an existing (private) project for PLC work: https://github.com/orgs/SeleniumHQ/projects/3
  • Discussed pros and cons of Slack meetings vs Video meetings

Budget

  • Request for Google Cloud account still not approved
  • Discussed how we want to track what we want to pay for (GitHub?)
  • Proposed that PLC gives TLC a budget that TLC can choose how to spend it
  • Discussed the need to figure out how to reimburse work that is being done outside of official leadership responsibilities
    • Concern is how to be fair and how to ensure that we can keep volunteers when some people are being paid
    • SFC will create a policy for this
  • Next step is to have a budget specific meeting

Appium / Ecosystem Projects

  • Discussed how Appium and Selenium relate to each other technically
  • Discussed that Selenium might need to find ways to support Appium better
    • Appium does not have an iOS expert to ensure no future issues
    • Move to BiDi needs to be coordinated
  • From technical standpoint using both Selenium and Appium has friction
  • Discussed the need for improving communication and collaboration in dev process
  • Discussed the wider concern of collaborating with all projects in ecosystem and ensuring their help
  • Next step is for SFC to investigate legal options and limitations for supporting other projects.

Plan to discuss specifics of roles, community actions, marketing and training considerations in next meeting.

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