Operations Group Meeting 27 Feb 2007

(Regarding notes: Jared was responsible for notes for this meeting. Good notes were taken, but the laptop clicked off (ongoing battery issues) before the notes were saved. Notes have been reconstructed to the extent possible.)

Attending: Sheila, Jared, Ted, Aparna, Heikki, Philippe

Branding/Pr

• Wiki and landing page look and feel: we're going through round 2 of feedback. Still issues to work out (see yesterday's email from Ted). Are we converging?
  • We are converging. There are four parallel branding efforts: product naming, domains, logo, and landing page design.
• Product naming: Final proposal to be sent to the list.
• Logo: Feedback in. When will this be presented to Mitch and finalized?
  • The timeline for finalization of logo and presentation to Mitch is about 2 weeks.

Preview

• Schedule, Features, Performance and Quality Bar: There are competing tensions between those 4 dimensions, pulling the project in several directions. We had a somewhat tense discussion yesterday on these during the Countdown to Preview meeting and I think we should review how we want to manage those tensions, especially at the management level.
  • Consensus that rolling dates aren't helpful.
  • PPD owns clarifying expectations of the type of adoption and feedback expected for Preview launch.
• Cosmo / ical4j: proposal to make a contribution to help them out to fix a critical TZ bug.
  • This contribution was approved by the ops team.

People

• Interns and GSoC^?: getting some resumes, will field them to people as appropriate
• Aparna increasing her hours to 6 hrs/day.
• Jeffrey to be working remote from Atlanta for a while (in a month from now)

Staff meeting message and demo

• Recap of schedule, in particular what's remaining.