Design List summary for Sun Feb 5, 2006

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Chandler

Dogfood

• We had a Design Session to gather input about different Target User(s) and Target User Groups for Dogfood Calendaring. Pre-meeting notes: ProposedTargetUserZeroDotSeven. Meeting notes: DotSevenTargetCalendarUser [Next action: Priscilla and Mimi to go outside of OSAF to interview users in their natural habitat.]

• We continued Morgen's discussion about Sharing improvements for 0.7, in particular auto-sync issues related to conflict management and a general Activity log. Most recent proposal write up: ActivityMonitorProposal [Next actions: Discussed with Morgen. Requires further discussion with Bryan and Ted. Needs to be phased for 0.7.]

• Priscilla posted her notes on Dogfooding Chandler calendar: DogFoodChandlerZeroDotSix0131
• Priscilla posted her interaction with a Dogfooder: Leppy on IRC re: interop with Basecamp
• Stefan Magdalinksi posted general Dogfood feedback.
• Jeffrey posted Dogfood feedback from the Ars Technica article comments
• Bobby posted feedback about having a way to "Mark certain events as Relevant to me" which spawned a reprisal discussion of whether or not people understand how Chandler collections can function like Categories.

[Next actions for Dogfood feedback: Sheila to send out proposal for Triaging Dogfood feedback.]

Plausible Scheduling and Invitations

• We had a second Open Design Session on Scheduling and Invitations, solidifying the mental model proposal for generic Communications and getting into the details of interaction workflow. Notes here: OpenDesign20060131
• Sheila posted a detailed wiki write-up summarizing our approach to Scheduling and Invitations in 0.7: FreeBusyInvitesSummary20060201 [Next action: Sheila to send out phasing proposal for Scheduling and Invitations.]

Plausible Dashboard

• Mimi posted some usage scenarios for sections and different possibilities for behavior. Alec followed up with an update on his Apps-work research. http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-February/004019.html [Next action: Sheila to send out phasing proposal for Plausible Dashboard.]
• We are having a Target User interview session for Plausible Dashboard at the next Design Session: TargetUsersForPlausibleDashboard

0.7 Planning

• Mimi posted notes from 1st Design-Apps meeting about Detail view improvements for 0.7: ZeroPointSevenDetailView20060201 [Next action: Follow-up meetings to deal with Sharing and Domain Model issues.]

Announcements

• Ted announced paper deadlines for OSCON (Feb 13): http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/
• Ted posted a summary of project ideas for OSU's Open Source Labs
• Bear announced that we are moving our IRC channels to irc.freenode.net
• Philippe forwarded a link to a CNet video interview with Lisa and Sheila: http://www.release1-0.com/freshproduce/newideas_timecount.cfm

Product Research

• Ted posted a new AJAX calendar: Sponge Cell: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/30/spongecell-an-ajax-calendar/
• Ted posted another new AJAX calendar: http://thomashawk.com/2006/02/30-boxes-best-calender-ever.html which prompted some discussion about tag-based filtering and interop.

Design Proposals

• Seth Johnson proposed a more flexible way for users to define context-sensitive schema (being fleshed out on the list currently).
• Philippe continued a discussion about auto-filing / auto-tagging and displaying organizational structures in Chandler.

Process

• Mimi posted suggestions for how to elicit Dogfood feedback from users logging onto IRC and mailing lists with tech support questions
• Mimi posted some more ideas for Design Session ideas.

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Scooby/Cosmo

• posted meeting notes