Notes from All Groups

Group #3

Are people still excited about what they are doing?

• some excitement
• overall excited

If not, what could we do to build more excitement?

• more events like this
• get users

What does a happy outcome look like?

• sustainability
• continuation

Other

• what prevents people from using the product?
• how do we get over these?
• how do users get to the next level?
• presentation to get people interested -- produce a spark
• don't get trapped into making new features to get new users
• try to get users with what we already have
• life cycle of the project - typical

Group #2

Are people still excited about what they are doing?

• excited more recently than in the past
• have something concrete from which we can build
• will be more excited once we start developing new code again
• having users is exciting

If not, what could we do to build more excitement?

• faster release cycles
• engaging external users
• not losing momentum
• experimentation for a targeted goal

What does a happy outcome look like?

• users taking the product for granted
• having a userbase
• stable funding

What do we do if there's no funding by the end of 2008?

• Cosmo would continue on
• Chandler is more questionable at this point
• type up resumés

Group #4

Are people still excited about what they are doing?

• No
• Trending upwards
• need users, roadmap or promo
• soft launch is soft
• more wait-and-see than excitement

If not, what could we do to build more excitement?

• users
• every user-sighting
• jumping on missing features
• more agility
• "knock 'em out" (month view, overlays)

What does a happy outcome look like?

• Lots of users
• scaling problems
• active community of users with outside contributions
• doing lots of user support

What do we do if there's no funding by the end of 2008?

• disappointment
• retain same basic relationship

Group #1

Are people still excited about what they are doing?

• yes
• exhausted
• excited about:
  • values of company
  • roadmap
• excitement expectations are typically high
• new release process
• doesn't feel like a job
• uncertainty about current work and how it relates to overall goals of the company
• feeling more excited now

If not, what could we do to build more excitement?

• turnaround features fast
• having more QA staff
• maybe have lower quality standards in exchange for faster releases
• align better to org goals
• "pressure to produce"
  • feel better when more time spent on something we want to do
  • something that feels good to contribute to
• implementing features
  • rolling them out quickly to users

What does a happy outcome look like?

• keep having paid jobs at OSAF
• have hundreds of thousands of users
• industry recognition
• having Cosmo being more well-known
• having non-staff devs
• more QA (staff and non-)
• having contacts

What do we do if there's no funding by the end of 2008?

• move code to google code
• hub service
  • need a way to migrate data from hub to their own server
• end up working at organizations that are less aligned with what we like