Ops Meeting June 6th 2007

Present: Sheila, Ted, Aparna, Heikki, Katie, Jared, Philippe

Agenda

• reviews/adjustments
• business cards (for OSCON?)
• work life surveys
• interns
• critical path to Preview?
• phones?

Review checkin

• The salary compensation letters from Suzette are ready and handed out to the managers.
• There is a good chance that the raise will show up in the June 15th paycheck.

Business cards

• Many people have requested business cards for OSCON. It seems like the best option is to order for non-personalized business cards with the new logo and URL. People can write down their names at the back before handing out the cards.
• We need to add an item to the preview meeting agenda about when to come up with a new osaf logo around Preview time frame.

Work Life Surveys

• Managers should remind their teams about finishing up the work life survey that was sent out. It means a lot to Mitch and Freada to have those completed by all entity people

Interns

• Aditya, the IT intern, is still waiting for his work permit to arrive
• Ed Bindl to begin on June 11th and projects for him include working on contacts or the month view
• GSoC^? interns have also begun working with their mentors. We might re-instate the intern IRC office hour as we did last year

Critical path to preview

• There is a fear that we might be on a schedule free-fall. How do we avoid that continuously slipping our schedule?
• There needs to be clear communication about what's the critical path. Some believe it is the Cosmo Dashboard whereas others think it is the Desktop
• Desktop bugs seem to be the critical path right now especially areas around eimml sharing and recurrence modifications.
• We need to aggressively triage bugs and punt out the P4s and P5s. Server has been stable for a while now. No new bugs that require patching the service or requiring a 0.6.1.1
• We should collectively make sure we escalate bugs that affect the service.

Phones

• There is a current proposal to change the internal phone system to asterisk. Dave did a prototype implementation of asterisk and the it went really well.
• This won't impact the conference call system we have in place currently, it only impacts the personal phones on the desks.
• For OSAF, managers should talk to their reports and explore the option of having only a single pod phone v/s a personal phone.
• OSAF's primary need for phones is for remote people connecting into the office. High quality as well as interoperability with remote people's phone systems is highly important. Also, conference phones must work thru preview is a requirement.
• Action item for Jared to write up the requirements for OSAF taking into account the remote people and exploring not having personal phones for people. ETA : before the next ops-wg meeting.

Others

• demo for next staff meeting - possibly a Google Analytics demo.

-- AparnaKadakia - 05 Jun 2007