[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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