Ops Notes October 3rd 2006

Hiring Discussion

• Discussed recent hires and status on open positions

Conference plan for 2007

• Date for Pycon is coming up
• Working towards first Preview version in the Spring
• Should plan out how we can use our conf attendance to promote the Preview
• Ted will send a note to the PR list with list of possible conferences for 2007.
• We can follow-up with a discussion about what conferences we should attend.

Should we have an IETF presence?

• Since Lisa is no longer here, should someone else be involved with the IETF stuff
• Mikeal expressed interest.
• Different roles - have influence vs learn what is going on
• Lisa is sending a monthly update
• There can be a big commitment and it can take up a lot of time.
• We don't have alot of staff and are pretty busy with the Preview goals.
• It's important we have a specific set of goals and be disciplined about the amount of time we spend.
• We are actively involved in the Calconnect meetings.
• We probably don't need to attend the IETF meetings but can follow the activities.

Branding Discussion

• Pieter and Caroline presented to the Ops group.
• We are trying to pinpoint a brand focus - a direction for developing position statement and all the other activities around branding.
• Everything else we do will evolve around this.
• The branding commitee met and considered a number of alternatives
• We started out with brand interviews and came up with a list of...
  • Associations
  • Brand values
• We then clustered them and came up with a set of focussed directions
• Result = 2 different brand themes
  • #1 - How I feel about product and organization and the people who built it
  • #2 - What the solution enables me to be
• Pieter lef the Ops team through an exercise to explore both of these brands.

• Conclusion: We decided that option #1 is the focus direction we should pick.
• The next step is for the branding committee to meet and discussion follow-up actions.
• For more information about the branding process and schedule see http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/BrandFocusSummary.

-- SheilaMooney - 04 Oct 2006