Operations Group Meeting Notes - July 25th 2006

Hiring Discusion

Interns

• Intern presentations (whole office) on Aug 10th
• Philippe coordinating this

Email/Thunderbird development (Katie)

• Chris - idea of extending thunderbird to do some stamping type work
• Building a thunderbird extension that would do things with thunderbird emails that would cause them to show up in Chandler stamped
• Some proposal ideas
• Not discussing the details in this meeting
• Should we be thinking about this - what resources should we be putting on it
• Fits into the "bridging the gap" scenarios
• How many people use thunderbird/
• Could be a prototype with email integration - perhaps we can extend this
• Might be strategic - mozilla project
• Osaf resources longterm - build an email client in chandler
• If we wanted to pursue - who would work on this? Someone on the apps team ie: bkirsch
• Possible help from foxmarks
• Worth some brain cycles and exploration

• Mitch made a comment about the storyboard review for chandler on Monday - some set of features in the short-term that are pretty powerful
• Email storyboards - PPD investment to explore the scenarios more clearly
• Maybe we can wind up which features are really critical - then everything else
• What is critical will be treated differently from everything else - where does this fall in the critical/not critical line
• Are we so tightly focussed on our plan - can we accommodate other stuff for investigation?
• Bridging the gap - meeting what users are really using right now
• Mail.app has pluggins
• Maybe the point is not to do the ultimate one - we can do a testbed - prototype as Philippe suggested.

WWDC (Katie)

• We are going to be doing a demo at WWDC - Grant/Jeffrey

Meeting/list culture revisited (Katie)

• We should have an official note taker and IRC watcher for staff meetings.
• We could decide in the Ops team meeting on Tues who will do it on Thurs
• Needs to be someone local and who is not presenting...probably an ops team person
• As for the note taking policy for meetings, Katie reminded us that it's important that we take notes and be disciplined about this.

Cosmo/Scooby - Schwag

• We should do something - hats, t-shirts etc
• Make it for the whole org thing
• Do this for the next release or sprint week
• Comparable to chandler 0.6

-- SheilaMooney - 27 Jul 2006