This is the home page for design group meeting held on Mondays at 1:00pm. Regular attendees are Sheila, Mimi, Katie. This is a forum used to discuss high-level design issues and project status. The second part of the meeting is forum to discuss/brainstorm specific design problems. This design meeting covers all ecosystem projects - Chandler, Cosmo and Scooby.

Agenda for May 1st

• Summer of code projects and intern projects
• Strategy
  • Mitch's email
  • Target user
  • Reponses to prioritization so far
• Design issues
  • Events without specific date/time - accepting invitations
  • Lozenge - when do we send out a last call
• Interns: update on status

Ongoing Projects (high level status)

Chandler

• 0.7 progress
  • Alpha2 wrapping up
  • Alpha3 planning and specs
• Draft target user for 0.7 for each tenet
  • Status: discussions underway between Mimi and Priscilla
  • Next Steps:
    • Interviews for calendar users
    • Design meeting for 0.7 dashboard target user

• Tenets : drilling down on concrete goals
  • Status:
    • 0.7 planning page updated with latest revisions
    • Staging proposal complete for all 0.7 alphas
    • Presentation to team at staff meeting
  • Next Steps:
    • Detailed alpha plans (Alpha 2)

• Design for 0.7
  • Tasks:
    • Plausible Dashboard
    • Plausible Scheduling + Invitations
    • Dogfood Calendar feedback
    • Domain model (formerly content model)
    • Detail view enhancements/markup bar
    • Context menus
    • Preferences
    • Sidebar issues
  • Status:
    • Dogfood calendar proposal circulated
    • Dashboard staging discussion with Mimi
    • Domain model kickoff with Ted
    • Scheduling proposal circulated
    • Reviewed markup bar spec with Reid
    • Auto-syching proposal discussions on list
  • Next Steps:
    • Finish spec reviews for Alpha 2 - dashboard keyboard support, invitations
    • Write search spec
    • Write auto-sync spec
    • First pass at dashboard performance scenarios for 0.7
    • Survey to list about size of calendars

• Extensibility plan for 1.0
  • Status: on hold
  • Next Steps: presentation to developers

Scooby

• 0.1 planning
  • Tasks:
    • release tenets
    • target user/goals
    • wireframes/prototype?
    • what release is that?
    • some initial demo - what is that called?
  • Status:
    • Scooby 0.1 essentially done - working on last minute landing page tasks.
    • Scooby 0.1, waiting for Cosmo 0.3 release.
  • Next Steps: issues handled during Scooby weekly meeting Wed @1:30pm
    • Last call for Scooby 0.2 tenets and plan

Cosmo & Hosted Service

• 0.3 plan and goals
  • Status:
    • Pending Cosmo 0.3 release in 3-4 weeks
    • Cosmo 0.2.8 to be released soon
  • Next steps:
    • Working with John to get the right roles, meetings for PPD and the developers
    • That cosmo bug - did we ever resolve?

1.0 Planning

• Business Strategy * Discussing options - driven by ops team
• 1.0 Product Plan
  • Element prioritization - discussion on list
    • Last call on Wed May 3
  • Target user
    • Mimi drafting proposal - target user for Chandler and Scooby * Started working on strategy for 1.0 or all products/ecosystem
• Business Strategy
  • Email pending to the list
  • Update spreadsheet

Wiki Website/Communication

• Virtuality paper
  • Tasks:
    • IA summit
    • CHI paper
  • Status: on hold
  • Next steps: Bay CHI presentation Mar 14th (Mimi)

• Fix vision paper - white paper for someone that knows nothing about the project can download and read
  • Status: On hold until 0.7 planning further along
  • Next steps: Sheila will work on this

• Nutshell write up
  • Status: Last iteration linked to from 0.6 launch page
  • Next steps: to reconcile this with work on Vision paper
• Weekly summary of design discussions
  • Status: ongoing
• Writeup of design process
  • Status: ???
  • Next steps: ???
• Dogfood processing and communication
  • Status: Summary to mid March on list.
• Release metrics
  • Status: Jared gathering some stats
  • Next steps: communicate to list (Sheila)

Past Meeting Notes

• October 2005: 3, 10, 17, 24
• November 2005: 7, 14, 28
• December 2005: 5,12
• January 2006: 9, 24,30
• February 2006: 6,13
• March 2006: 6,20
• April 2006: 5,10,17,24
• May 2006: 1,23