Preview Meeting - April 9th 2007

Agenda

• Milestones this week
• Check-in on desktop feature freeze status
• Updates to the plan
• Cosmo integration
• Logos - what happens after Mitch makes his choice
• Website technologies
• Position statements

Notes

Milestones/Status/Updates

• Production hardware up at colo
• Desktop feature freeze on track for today
• Terms of service is back on track and Jared meeting with the lawyers about this
• Sheila will update preview page and calendar when desktop feature freeze checkpoint is ready

Cosmo integration

• Developers are still testing interop
• One week of testing after feature freeze
• QA has gotten started but ran into issues so they will wait for the developer QA period
• Are we updating QA Cosmo - what is the process?
• We are updating it as soon as we get a new fix - with a new checkpoint - on demand.
• Adam is making requests to Bear.
• We need this updated (QACosmo) for the testing

Logos

• 3 logos sent to Mitch for review.
• Once he responds we will keep iterating on the one concept.
• This is about picking the concept.
• We will fill out the time that's available.
• Two weeks to iterate on logos - getting logos for all the platforms, wiki, doc bar.
• Pieter - does this include fonts, palettes for logos etc.
• Mimi - we weren't going to do a full branding look and feel for Preview.
• Depending on the logo we may need to tweak the wiki pages and landing pages that we have today.
• Next Actions: Pieter - will find out what we need to do the trademark search.
• Ted - once we pick the logo - do we have everything that we need to reskin the app?
• Milestone - final artwork necessary to reskin the apps - May 14th.

Website technologies

• Pieter sent out an email to the design list. He looked at all the content we currently have.
• Looked at what our requirements are.
• Pieter has made a recommendation.
• How do we stage stuff if we are putting it on the wiki? Is it that important to have a flip-switch launch moment?
• Mimi - can we add "page under construction"
• Jared - some inclination from the group to make our release process private.
• Next Actions
  • Put the technologies recommendation in a proposal (Jared)
  • Then a conversation about which pages are decorated etc (Jared and Pieter)
  • Staging issue - have a discussion on the PR (Pieter)
• Timing - moving wiki to chandlerproject.org - maybe in next couple of weeks
  • Possible broken links
  • Plan to keep the robots from indexing all copies of the sites
  • What would be at the home page - projects/webhome? Sure.
• Screencasts hosted on utube - you should be able to embed those without marketing ads around them
  • resolution is also an open issue
  • Mimi - try to tie in the screencasts to end-user documentation survey - prioritize the screencasts
  • We can do this on the users list
  • Next Actions: Pieter will draft a list of those

Position statements

• Mimi had a look at Pieter's wiki page
• Wasn't sure what the process proposal was and how it links back to the last set of work we did.
• Pieter - intent was to get specific position statements - text we need for a variety of places
• Can we prioritize those based on the end-user documentation? ie: title of the web page
• Pieter has a working list of statements that we need to have for Preview.
• We will add some of the stuff that came up in the wiki gardening session.
• Worth to identify a handful that we should start on first.
• Pieter will identify the top 3 that we should get working on - just to get us started if we are working as a group.
• Should we send stuff to the list OR assign them to people.
• What is the status of the last discussion we had - we all filled out this page (target user position statements).
• Next Actions
  • Expand the list - add wiki gardening items
  • Assign a list of position statements and people to write them

-- SheilaMooney - 09 Apr 2007