[p2pu-dev] [p2pu-research] Notes from P2PU Community Call - Thursday 2 June 2011
Jessy Kate Schingler
jessy at jessykate.com
Thu Jun 2 18:44:39 UTC 2011
actually pasting the notes into email ALSO has the added benefit of making
them super easy to read on a mobile phone (versus loading and reading in
etherpad - yuk). thanks!
Jessy
--
http://jessykate.com
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Rebecca Kahn <bekka.kahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Here are the notes from this week's community call. And since clicking on a
> link can be a real pain, this week we're copying all the note-y goodness
> into the mail. If you want to see the pad though (and the chat that went
> alongside it) then feel free to head over to http://pad.p2pu.org/community
>
> Best
>
> Bekka
>
>
> =========================================================================================
>
> *2 June 2011*
>
> *Agenda*
>
> - Trickle Campaign, Tag notifications, Updates: how should we implement
> smoothly?
>
>
> - Roadmap: serving its purpose?
> http://wiki.p2pu.org/w/page/36991876/Roadmap-2011
>
>
> - World Bank and other potential sources of funding
>
>
> - file uploads (if we need to talk about it...?)
>
>
> - Update on ticket discussion from last week - is the system working?
>
>
> - Terminology feedback (multiple terms instead of study group) --
> Please visit alpha.p2pu.org (both text that are permanently displayed
> or those that are displayed when users submit a form or do something)
>
>
> - New task navigation layout
>
>
> - Communications push June - pushed to meeting with Bekka and Philipp
> tomorrow - community list will be updated on progress
>
>
> - Metrics
>
>
> - Twitter
>
>
> *Attendees*
>
> - Alison
>
>
> - Jessica
>
>
> - Erin
>
>
> - selfstudier
>
>
> - jessy
>
>
> - Zuzel
>
>
> *Stand-ups (type in when you arrive)*
>
> - Alison: working on help desk tutorials, user support, wiki gardening,
> orientation planning, and more tutorials next big tasks
>
>
>
> - Jessica
>
>
> - Coding (task UI, new email on group creation, and a few other things)
> and getting ready for 0.7
>
>
> - And another study group member committed for the first time this
> week! Woo hoo!
>
>
>
> - Erin
>
>
> - Badge pilot phase 2 prep - messaging and new badges/assessments
>
>
> - Help desk script on badges for Ali
>
>
> - Interviewing for assessment specialist and research positions
>
>
> - Meetings galore
>
>
> - Prepping for a move back east! (oo do tell! :) --jessy) moving to
> southern maine...in 3 weeks! eeek! :)
>
>
>
> - Bekka
>
>
> - Admin stuff (contracting, workshop materials, paperwork)
>
>
> - Email
>
>
> - General community tasks
>
>
>
> - Jessy
>
>
> - looking into search
>
>
> - APIs
>
>
> - running formal reasoning in computer science
>
>
>
> - Zuzel
>
>
> - Talked with Jessica yesterday on the dev meeting about how we can use
> those meetings
>
>
> - Preparing for todays feature freeze
>
>
>
> - Philipp
>
>
> - Trying to hire (for school of webcraft, and assessment)
>
>
> - ORG stuff - bank account, financial systems
>
>
> - Legal stuff - draft documents from the lawyers
>
>
> - Business ideas
>
>
> *Notes*
>
> Trickle Campaign
>
> - Tag interest
>
>
> - Ali will gather up a plan of attack and we will give feedback :)
>
>
> - Tickets - review them
>
>
> -
> http://p2pu.lighthouseapp.com/projects/71002-lernanta/tickets/367-create-trickle-campaign
>
>
> - Roadmap/document when users get reengaged and how (missing X?)
>
>
> - what emails to whom and why
>
>
> Roadmap
>
> - Make sure we're hitting our overall goals
>
>
> - It would be great to get larger goals from all working groups in to
> the roadmap
>
>
> - and updating
>
>
> - Can be useful for community so that they can see what they can do
> right now
>
>
> - note there is also a dev roadmap (but that one goes more into the
> past than into the future) --
> https://github.com/p2pu/lernanta/wiki/Lernanta%27s-Roadmap
>
>
> - Dev roadmap was good for saying "can make courses/study groups" and
> "get ready for migration" to tell us what we're prioritizing that milestone.
> I like that. But maybe when we focus on Task UI versus X?
>
>
> - Possible to look at Roadmap at 2 levels -
>
>
> - 1 is a high-level document with a few main areas of overview of
> activity:
>
>
> -
> http://sharing-nicely.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/webcraft-roadmap-2011.jpg
>
>
> - Second document: This is stuff that is happening-type document which
> is where people see the day-to-day stuff that is going on. Possible to have
> this actually take place in the weekly call, either every week or once a
> month? A slightly more messy, useable document for everyone to use
>
>
> - Perhaps use the first call of every month to review roadmap
>
>
> - Not use this for tech - there are good systems in place there.
>
>
> - *TASK: *Bekka to mail the list, remind them about the Roadmap, ask
> them to help with a month-long trial.
>
>
> Funding - World Bank and other funding sources
>
> - Revenue Generation
>
>
> - Idea: P2PU as a Platform that generates revenue
>
>
> - Can we offer a solution that is low-cost and within their
> capacity-building interests?
>
>
> - Silver package: Can do this, that, and etc. So that community can run
> the courses.
>
>
> - Examples: Journalism courses last year(?)
>
>
> - Product (off the shelf) but also specialized consulting services?
>
>
> - Potential customers / clients:
>
>
> - Universities (as in the journalism courses) - needs special features
> for tracking students
>
>
> - Organizations like Amnesty, Greenpeace, WITI?, Women 2.0?, Ubuntu?,
> Red Cross?, etc. - no need to tie into institutional systems as much
>
>
> - Challenges:
>
>
> - Previous example needed a lot of hand-holding, involvmenet on our end
>
>
> - Make sure that the platform continues to exist
>
>
> - *TASK: *Jessy to start making a short sketch/notes around this idea
> and discuss further with Philipp and others who are interested.
>
>
> - Grants / Donations
>
>
> - Do we have material (promo and marketing material) that can be
> distributed in support of funding drives?
>
>
> - Question: Can anyone write a grant or should we go through someone at
> P2PU first?
>
>
> - If it's a grant for P2PU it would need to be mentioned on the
> community list but it would be awesome if people are keen and see
> opportunities, to get the ball rolling within the community.
>
>
> - Adding Donation link to Getting Involved page in 0.7
>
>
> - In terms of people looking for grants and finding money for P2PU, how
> could it work?
>
>
> - Can individuals find money for specific projects?
>
>
> - This needs to be looked at on a case-by-case basis: if there is not a
> lot of overhead invloved/reporting committments/admin etc, then Philipp is
> happy to discuss
>
>
> Ticket Discussion from last week update:
>
> - Zuzel seems happy with what has happened so far - no problems came up
> as a result of the marketing push
>
>
> -
> http://qa.p2pu.org/questions/114/how-are-development-priorities-decided-there has been a question of how tasks are ranked for action. We have some
> implicit guidelines, but haven't made these totally clear.
>
>
> - There are several areas where the input comes in, but perhaps it's a
> case of communicating the implicit processes to the community better.
>
>
> - Jessica and Zuzel go through all the tickets when they do milestone
> creation and grab tickets that need looking at. Perhaps we can communicate
> this process better so that people don't feel that their tickets have been
> sidelined.
>
>
> - We want input from the community on the ticket process - ideal
> scenario would be to scale everything for a marathon, but this probably
> isn't possible.
>
>
> - Suggestions:
>
>
> - Keep the Lernanta roadmap updated in the wiki - we can direct people
> there when they have questions around this process
>
>
> - https://github.com/p2pu/lernanta/wiki/Lernanta's-Roadmap
>
>
> - Zuzel and others to work on a short, high-level document [just a few
> guidelines] around the process of task triage so that we can respond to
> people as and when they have questions around the process. (todo:
> prepare a proponsal for feedback)
>
>
>
> - Terminology feedback (multiple terms instead of study group being
> tested on alpha.p2pu.org) -- Zuzel looking for feedback on email about
> this, look to see if terminology is correct, and ask that everyone play
> around on alpha.p2pu.org and look for things that need fixing.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Rebecca Kahn
> Skype: rebekahn
>
>
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