Operations Group Meeting, 11 September 2007

Preview

• See Dashboard stats: http://dashboard.osafoundation.org/dashboard
• Looks ok, no spike yet

Post Preview

• Evangelism, getting users
  • we don't have a marketing person so we need to reach out to get users ourselves
  • aparna feels that we can't do much without a dedicated person
  • heikki mentions that at Netscape the marketing was not that effective, word for mouth worked better
  • ted think we can reactivate CSG, doesn't mean will get lots of pick up immediately though because of their procurement cycles
  • there's a bunch of contact in the blog sphere we have that would bring some (lots!) attention but we don't want to use them too early
  • we need to validate the app, feel ok with what we have by reaching out to a couple of hundreds of users, then we'll reach out to a more broader audience and we think that that shouldn't be too difficult
• Marketing
  • do we want to fill the business position?
  • we think we need an entrepreneur type
  • need to dust that job description, will be likely hired through contacts though

Planning

• make sure our teams are not blocked
• Philippe to follow up @dev about opening the tree
• Cosmo is not blocked (already done the work)

On-site week

• Katie doing the party planning today, all KEI is invited
• Philippe to follow up with Cedric on the "prosocial" activity, trying to do a 1/2 day activity rather than a day
• Mimi making a list of things we should talk about
• Note that we can bring people outside the sprint week (e.g. BKirsch who won't make it at the sprint week) for in person meetings later

Interop

• Ted to contact the Google manager, need to decide what we want to ask from them though (bandwidth, etc...)
• Philippe to get the Leopard seed asap
• Need to get the Apple calendar server (Mikeal)
• Vista: we should get one version and do some preliminary tests, Philippe to look at that

Phone system

• No strong feelings
• try to get the voice mail on email (or email notification) on a list

Staff meeting

• Do a "year in review" short presentation? Philippe, Ted, Aparna to think about that. May be better doing that during the sprint week.

-- PhilippeBossut - 12 Sep 2007