Hi everyone, I keep putting off posting announcements as we keep having yet a few more things we'd like to get in place, but here's a short summary of significant news:
## Booth at SCaLE last weekend Last weekend, Bryan and I attended the Southern California Linux Expo where Snowdrift.coop had a booth. For the first time, we finally had our new design rolled out, banners, stickers, and even shirts (which need to go out to launch donors now). See this picture an attendee posted: https://twitter.com/ilovegarick/status/691065939832385536 ## New Poster (and blog post) Several volunteers collaborated to create what I found to be the most effective illustration we've yet got to describe the core snowdrift dilemma issues. Read about it and see the results: https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/blog/new-poster ## New Research / Feedback We had the first version of some real user feedback via some paper surveys at the conference prepared by Michael Siepmann, the tech-design psychologist: http://techdesignpsych.com Michael has offered valuable perspective and fills a needed niche in user experience research. ## Presentation at FOSDEM this weekend Our new Community Directory, Will "Salt" Hale (who will introduce himself further in a blog post sometime soon) is not only making a difference with managing our infrastructure and our new CiviCRM set up (tool for managing contacts and such), he's also giving an introductory talk on Snowdrift.coop in just a few hours from now at FOSDEM, the largest free/libre/open software conference in Europe. Details: https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/snowdriftcoop_sustainable_funding/ ## New Project Management Direction We just started a new major project management process with new tools and plans thanks to the mentorship and advice of some folks we met last weekend. Charles Wyble of the Free Network Foundation and programmer and general FLO advocate Brian Smith have been coaching us through using OpenProject to sort overall milestones and efforts, create "user stories" and come to better consensus on our priorities and directions. All in all, we've made major progress. Thanks to all the volunteers who have continued their help (more specific folks to acknowledge soon!). We have lots to do, but are on track to tackle our challenges. Please let us know your thoughts, feedback, etc. via other discussion email lists, IRC, on the site… whatever medium you prefer. Thanks for staying connected and interested. Lots more exciting news coming soon! Cheers, Aaron -- Aaron Wolf co-founder, Snowdrift.coop _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce@lists.snowdrift.coop https://lists.snowdrift.coop/mailman/listinfo/announce
