As a follow-up to the update on the blog post that went out this week (http://blog.chandlerproject.org/2008/11/04/osaf-board-changes-and-project-next-steps/
), OSAF is planning an offsite for November 20th and 21st. This is an
opportunity for the new board of directors to meet in person and the
remaining OSAF staffers to talk cover a wide range of topics relating
to our transition to an all-volunteer organization. We will be sending
out a number of summaries to the list afterwards.
We don't have a set agenda although we do have some items we need to
cover. As part of our official board meeting I will be going over the
status on logistics, administrative issues as well as our budget. We
will also talk about what kind of role the board will play and
potential projects we can take on. In addition to the board items, we
will also get a detailed update on the architecture roadmap and a
"state of the user community report".
We expect most of the time will be spent on covering a bunch of issues
and possible decisions we need to make once the project is fully
volunteer. I wanted to throw out a list of topics that have come up
through brainstorming so far. This is by no means an exhaustive list,
nor will we be able to cover everything in 2 days. It's meant to give
us a start so we can craft an appropriate agenda and get to the stuff
that's most important. I would like to hear ideas, comments feedback
about other items we should be thinking about.
At a high level we have a number of strategic areas that we want to
touch on.
+ What does the project need to "have legs"?
+ Future project sustainability
+ Strategy for development community (desktop and server)
+ Strategy for the user community
Ideas/Topics for discussion:
+ Do we change the organization's name to Chandler Project Foundation?
+ What do we do with "internal lists"?
+ Do we merge Cosmo and Chandler-dev lists?
+ IRC channels
+ Do we resurrect the IRC office hours?
+ What is our ongoing strategy for the blog?
+ Announcements, releases
+ Community blog posts: e.g. user stories, feedback, 5 parcels
submitted by volunteer developer
+ What's our strategy and process with bugzilla going forward?
+ What do we do with the 1.0 candidates list?
+ What's going to trigger a Desktop and Server release to get done?
+ What's the process?
+ What's the strategy for getting volunteers to take this over?
+ How are we going to track progress on the rearchitecture?
+ ...???
Cheers,
Sheila_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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