PPD Meeting - Wed Jan 24th, 2007

Agenda

• Planned design sessions - anything we need to do?
• Wiki next steps
• Preview non-code deliverables
• Cosmo target user tenets - standalone and consultative
• Google calendar comparison
• Import - getting data into Chandler
• Launch conversation
• Branding

Notes

• Design sessions
  • Chandler design reviews - have developers walk-through work (us and Aparna)
    • Dashboard
    • Edit/update - another big meeting to review workflows
      • Sheila will coordinate with Philippe on timing of these meeting
    • Search
      • Item creation vs search being default
      • Wants to add ability to save searches - not as simple as it sounds
      • Wants to bring back the view selector
      • Sheila will discuss with Philippe
  • Cosmo
    • Review of possible dashboard - no need for a spec
    • Talk about implementation steps - staged features
    • High-level run through of the proposal
    • Matthew is going to investigate graphics from setting design session

• Wiki next steps
  • Jared can answer any questions while Priscilla is away
  • Structure - what's the first page on the wiki
    • How does the work we have done fit in with the curren structure
    • Do we need to circle back on wiki structure that Ted and Mimi put together
    • Mimi will revisit top-level pages
    • Sheila will help Mimi and get together the full product wiki area
    • Katie will send Mimi her pages to look at - with a list of questions

• Non - code deliverables - main page
  • List of next actions
  • First draft of timeline
  • Mimi should talk to Pieter about screen-casts for Preview

• New tenets for Cosmo
  • Consultative usage
  • Stand-alone usage

• Google calendar comparison
  • It will be important at Preview time to understand the differences
  • Positioning - understanding our placement
  • Some forum for detailed analysis - did we have any reactions?
  • Are there things that will inform Cosmo or Chandler
    • Cosmo - aware with the world around you but can start using the app without being linked into that community. Useful pieces fitting together.
  • Different type of direction from OSAF.
  • It's worthwhile for PPD to have this type of thinking as part of our process. Ready to answer questions and deal with strategy issues.

• Importing data into Chandler
  • Setup a separate discussion about this

• Branding
  • Talk more about structure of branding in meetings
  • Priscilla and Trevor talked about process after the meeting
  • Did we give the other names a fair chance or did we always just compare everything to Chandler
  • If we can't use Chandler, do need to tweak our process? Yes
  • Since we have started to focus on a specific name, the process for coming up with backup names is not working
  • Should we continue to come up with a set of backup names with a smaller group
  • Backup names should be proposed with a visual treatment

Status

Sheila

• Progress
  • Met with Bear and Mimi to discuss installers
  • Tracking edit/update process
  • Coordinating with QA on staged test plans
  • Cosmo 0.6 release
    • Bug councils
    • Testing
    • Checkin in with Priss before she leaves on vacation
  • Chandler
    • Bug councils
    • Dogfood tracking
    • Finalizing any remaining feature issues
• Plans
  • Monitoring Cosmo in Priscilla's absence
  • Tracking Chandler Alpha5 bugs and issues
  • Dogfooding
  • Branding
  • Put together non-code deliverables timeline
  • Design list summaries
  • Wiki updating

Priscilla

• Progress
  • Finish any non-development documentation for Cosmo 0.6 release: release notes, cosmo landing page content, help portal page.
  • Branding - Alternate names and plans on how to move forward with the visuals & alternate names.
  • Wiki portal project - sent an instruction page to the wiki gardening group to move forward with the side bar. Followed up Jared with instructions if anyone is lost. Will continue to make more tweaks upon my return.

• Plans
  • Holiday

Mimi

• Progress
• Cosmo styleguide - Reviewed in Design Session
• Finalized design of Chandler Accounts dialog with bkirsch
• 3 rounds of proposals for 'No data loss' workflow
• Sorting through Triage status issues
• Wrote up workflows for Dump and Reload after meeting with Bear and Sheila

• Branding - Logo and Visual design, iterating on ideas
• Brainstorm: Alternative names
• Screencast scenarios and end-user documentation

• Bugs, bugs and more dogfooding bugs

• Plans
• Additions to Cosmo styleguide: Button styles, Error messages
• Review Dashboard with Cosmo team
• Hopefully iron out recurrence issues related to the 'No data loss' proposal
• Continue iterating on logo design
• Work through search issues
• Talk to Pieter about end-user documentation
• More wiki gardening

-- SheilaMooney - 24 Jan 2007