Operations Group Meeting, 30 October 2007

Agenda

• Project check in: Server, Desktop, Hub, QA, PPD, Evangelism
  • important threads or issues ppl should pay attention to?
  • threads or issues blocking?
• Staff meeting reschedule?
• Staff meeting demos, agenda
• Strategy: Where do we want to be in a month?
• Strategy check in

Notes

Project check in

• Server: 0.8.1 should be released today, 0.9 in progress
• Desktop: 0.7.2 branching tomorrow, one bug blocking (wx), 0.7.3 will have plenty of new features including month view! Yeah!
• Hub: 0.7.8 update under way, operation doing fine
• QA: testing 0.7.2, script recording very close to land, testing Cosmo
• PPD: Mimi's out, going to FLOSS usability days (Jeffrey and Matthew), on one blocked on PPD

Staff meeting

• Some people at the FLOSS this week so proposing to have 2 in a row. Agreed
• Staff meeting demos
  • WebUI^?: overlay demo
  • Desktop
    • Month View
    • Language features
  • QA: recorded scripts

Strategy

• OpenLaszlo^?: meeting went really well, we'll see if they decide to use it or not. Their issues around scaling, multiple servers.
• Waiting for a bunch of outside contacts to come back to us
• Katie talked to Janice: recommends we focus on marketing
• Leopard: good we were mentioned there

• Where do we want to be in a month?
  • Need to focus on doubling our stats monthly, whatever the stats measure (i.e. despite their biais)
  • Regular continuous users is the important one
  • Need to resolve the 3 categories of Hub users: WebDAV users, Desktop users and WebUI^? users
  • Barriers:
    • Get rid of Preview and call the product 1.0
    • Fixing the barrier to standalone usage on the Hub
    • Confusion at the very initial experience
  • We might not reaching our target
  • Things we could do:
    • Need to use the WebUI^? as the "gentle ramp" to Chandler, may be have a simple calendar public and open for try
    • Make better video demos
    • Plan for 1.0: Katie to check that with Mimi

-- PhilippeBossut - 30 Oct 2007