Staff Meeting Oct 19th, 2006

Agenda

• Announcements
  • Dan Steinicke (Philippe)
  • Sprint week dates: Jan 8 - 12 (Katie)
• Focus on Preview (Katie and Mitch)
• Project Updates
  • Ops team (Katie)
  • PPD (Sheila)
  • Chandler (Philippe)
  • Cosmo (Ted)
  • Community (Ted)
  • Hosted Service (Jared)
• Target Users (Priscilla)
• Demos
  • Selenium (Mikeal)
  • PMTool (Markku)

Announcements

• Dan Steinicke (Philippe)
• Sprint week dates: Jan 8 - 12 (Katie)

Notes

Announcements

• Dan joining OSAF fulltime
• Sprint - scheduled 2 sprints for next year

Preview Goals

• We have a goal for next March - Chandler running with Cosmo and Cosmo UI to support
• Very important goal - very important that OSAF has something functional
• Credible for organization
• Not a research project - want to have an impact with something that can be used day to day
• Significant milestone
• Discipline to get there - finish current features - see things through to make it compelling and meet the promise
• Have to cut stuff to be realistic for preview
• Not invest in stuff that we realistically can't do
• Stick to priorities in day to day decisions - do what's most important
• Live with decisions and move on - not continue arguing once we have made a decision - important to go forward
• Consequences to others if we are not disciplined
• Desktop - In a different phase - not about new features - about completing what we have - removing barriers to being functional
  • Bugs, finishing feature set, stability, performance
• Cosmo - making sure that Cosmo supports the hosted service and sharing and the Cosmo UI will be functional (some piece) for casual collaborators.
• All of this impacts day to day decisions and we need to stick to this
• Mitch 2 cents - making preview in more of less the form we anticipate is the most important thing we will be doing over history
  • In order to maintain active progress, we need to do this.
  • No surprises. What we have to do in order to achieve that.
  • Need to attend to the basic stuff
  • We have what we need to execute - to get where we need to go
  • Numbers in adoption less important that momentum

Project Updates

• Ops team (Katie)
  • 2 weeks ago we talked about the budget - projections for next year
  • Headcount really dominates budget at OSAF
  • Conscious of other costs - more consistent policies
  • Scale back on some conferences before Preview - focus on our release
  • More targetted and focused on conference attendance
  • 2 open positions - Cosmo and business strategy
  • Working on re-energizing the OSAF board - how should we use them to help

• PPD (Sheila)
  • Not much activity on the design list
  • Monitoring Cosmo 0.5 and Chandler Alpha4 releases - dogfooding app, bug tracking, triage
  • Spec work for Preview and for Cosmo 0.6 in progress - most reviews will be scheduled

• Chandler (Philippe)
  • Still working on stabilization bugs for Chandler Alpha4 - fixing. finding
  • Still several blockers - want to have 2 days where we don't find a blocker
  • Everyone should dogfood - need to have a stable and usable Alpha4
  • Making great progress

• Cosmo (Ted)
  • Still working on Cosmo 0.5 - some features are taking a bit longer than anticipated ie: recurrence
  • Will probably branch next week and some people will start working on 0.6

• Community (Ted)
  • No update this week.

• Hosted Service (Jared)
  • Using performance reports for Preview decisions
  • Preview capacity set for 10000 users for Preview
  • Customer support - looking at a plan for this
  • Plans: more testing, ssl performance
  • OSAF.us is available for testing - runnning Cosmo 0.5
  • Webmail is available

Presentations

• Target Users (Priscilla)
• Demos
  • Selenium (Mikeal)
  • PMTool (Markku)

-- SheilaMooney - 19 Oct 2006