Staff Meeting Oct 5, 2006

Agenda

• Introductions
  • Randy Letness (Ted)
• Project Updates
  • PPD (Sheila)
  • Chandler (Philippe)
  • Cosmo (Ted)
  • Community (Ted)
  • Hosted Service (Jared)
  • Ops team (Katie)
• Calconnect update (Mikeal)
• Branding (Pieter)
• Demos
  • Chandler α4 (Philippe)
  • Cosmo 0.5 (Jared)
  • PMTool (Markku)

Introductions

• Randy has joined the Cosmo team
• Working remotely from Austin
• Will be visiting the office at the beginning of Nov

Projects Updates

• PPD (Sheila)
  • Chandler Alpha5, Alpha6 specs
  • Cosmo
• Chandler (Philippe)
  • Logging, testing and fixing bugs
  • The testing is starting to uncover some good issues
• Cosmo (Ted)
  • Winding down on Cosmo 0.5
  • Release should be in the next week or two
• Community (Ted)
  • All quiet
• Hosted Service (Jared)
  • Work in MySQL^? base backend
  • Testing for performance and interop
  • Should have a Cosmo 0.5 on osaf.us by the next staff meeting
• Ops team (Katie)
  • Heard that some people didn't know about Cosmo/Scooby merge
  • Ops team took this as a sign that we could be communicating better
  • Working on job description for business dev position - on Ops team but has more business background
  • Katie went through a list of topics we are discussing - app stability, conferences, budget

Calconnect (Mikeal)

• BCM - on the Cosmo side we found a few bugs and fixed them. We made progress fixing issues so that we can interop with the next version of iCal.
• Jeffrey - had a bunch of issues with Oracle interop.
• Grant - did some testing with other servers. The Apple one worked really well. We had issues with the RPI server.

• Interop
  • Went pretty well.
  • We got to test with a bunch of stuff before they are released and fixed a number of problems.
  • Sunbird CALDAV support pretty early.
  • Want to have a server setup for Apple testing.

• Office hours
  • Need a way to specify "office hours" or available time for a user
  • Don't know whether it should be solved in iCalendar or CALDAV

• Color and VVENUE
  • Adding a property on the calendar to persist colors
  • Spec for VVENUE - like a VEVENT but added venue specific information

• Storing attachments in DAV
  • Add a property to the Calendar for where to store attachments

• SyncML/OMA
  • Issues
    • vCalendar vs iCalendar
    • Supported features
    • Spec not explicit enough
    • vCard

• Calendaring across internet
  • Making it work like email
  • RFC-3958

Branding (Pieter)

• Pieter walked through how we got to our brand focus
• A brand is for our entire solution - what a user thinks about when they see what we are trying to build
• Step #1: The main focus - what is the theme for our brand
• Important when you are building a brand for it to sync up with the fundamental values of the organization
• Brand focus goal
  • Look at a theme that we could adopt that would be consistent for our message
  • The message focuses on differentiation, relevance, longevity
  • Derived from a bunch of brand association research
  • Came up with several alternatives and picked on
• Brand focus: I use this because of how I feel about the product and people who are using it...
• Next Steps:
  • Positioning statements - several for different contexts and people
  • Brand names
  • Logos
  • Other creative look and feel elements
• We choose this because we think it aligns with our philosophy better
• OSAF is just not about the product it's about the way we work and other ways we can make an impact.
• Feature specific messages are sort of transient
• More details are available at.... http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/BrandingCurrentStatus

• Questions:
  • Ted: explain what pro-social means
  • It provides benefit to a wide range of people, philanthropic term.

Demos

• Chandler α4
  • Philippe demo'd Alpha4 and how he is using the dashboard, reply, reply all, forward features.
• Cosmo 0.5
  • Jared demo-ing the performance improvements with hibernate

-- SheilaMooney - 05 Oct 2006