PPD Meeting Aug 7th 2006

Agenda

• General status update
• Scooby/Cosmo
  • Sprint - Review schedule and figure out who is doing what.
  • Terminology - how should we refer to the UI piece of Cosmo - Cosmo UI?
  • Vision/requirements doc - I would like to review what I have so far and go over the open issues with you both.
  • Scooby 1.0 target user - let's work on what Priscilla wrote so we can send it out.
• Chandler desktop
  • Big uber Beta stickie plan - I want to take a stab at this
  • Alpha4 stuff - what specs need to be updated
• Design list
  • Go over threads and issues

Cosmo/Scooby Sprint

• Review agenda and session details

• Day 1:
  • OSAF Mission - Katie
  • Open Source - Ted
  • Design Process - Sheila
    • PC: Some of the engineers think they don't have much say
    • PC: Comparatively with other companies - they do have more input
    • PC: They do understand the target users
    • MY: If they were to participate at the level that we are...they would have to spend all their time.
    • MY: If you spend time understanding the entire context you can participate more - Jeffrey participates a lot - expertise
    • MY: To make the decision, you have to have the entire user experience in their head
    • MY: Curious to find out people's feelings about the design process - before - think works well, doesn't work well
    • What do the developers need from us - do they want to know the steps?
    • Mid-level presentation - storyboards - not too detailed
    • Talk to Ted about right presentation to developers

• Day 2:
  • What is the ecosystem - what are we building? (Sheila, Mimi, Priss)
    • Start with the write-up - Irene/Mini/Eric - the one that Priss did (Priss) - target user group description - priss's diagrams - sm group philosophy * Use scenario to illustrate the philosophies * Stamping - refresher on presentation * Dashboard presentation * Q & A
  • Design Strategy (Sheila)
    • Focussing on Casual Collaborator instead of individual contributor - Priss' other email (Priss)
    • Adoption and getting users - given the desktop this gets us the most users
  • Target users - group exercises and presentation (Mimi, Priss)
    • Mimi and Priss working on specifics
  • Whiteboard exercise - what still needs to be worked out for Scooby/Cosmo
    • Emphasize questions and decisions still to be made
  • Open Mic
    • What are people's thoughts on the design strategy
    • Target users
    • Who feels they fit into the target users - who feels they do not
    • Do they know people if not them, outside osaf that fit into the target user group and why
    • Experience with design process - where they had worked before
    • Did they feel they have more control
    • Concerns & questions

Scooby Vision Document

• Reviewed draft with Priscilla and Mimi
• Sheila to make some changes and circulate to John

Scooby 1.0 Target User Write-up

• What do we need to do in order to get this write-up ready for the list?
  • CC - 2 sub types of users
  • Work on this Tues @2:30pm - in lieu of the design session

Chandler desktop

• Dashboard storyboards - Sheila to meet with Mimi later today @ 4:00pm
• Stickie plan for Beta -

Design List

• Didn't have time to discuss threads
• Sheila working on email summary and regular weekly summary

Next Actions

• Discussion with Ted @3:00pm re: open source and open source design
• Dashboard storyboards - meet today @ 4:00pm to discuss
• Meeting with Mimi and Priscilla Tues @2:30pm
  • Finish Scooby 1.0 target user write-up
  • Chandler desktop Beta stickie plan
• Weekly design summary (Sheila)
• Email summaries (Sheila)

-- SheilaMooney - 07 Aug 2006