Tech Team Meeting 2007-04-26

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Agenda

2007-04-26

  1. Welcome
  2. Roll Call (determine who's on the call, brief introductions)
  3. Current Action Items
    1. Small discussion about subteams in Tech Team
      1. Which teams should we have?
      2. How will people be organized?
      3. What are some of the characteristics of a good subteam leader?
    2. What would be helpful guidelines for new releases?
    3. How do we implement Sliding scale verification?
    4. What things can we do to create more effective communication in the groups?
    5. How do we complete, conclude and learn from projects created during NZ Collective?
    6. Heads up on a possib;e mini tech collective in Rotterdam
  4. Previous Action Items
    1. List of core requirements for web site functioning. Where are we?
    2. Feedback on last weeks Tech Team management
      1. constructive comments on leadership
      2. comments on Working together as a group instead of individually working on separate features or projects.
      3. Comments on Moving from ad-hoc, do-ocracy to mission focused, core goals focused team
    3. Release guidelines and Idea to feature process(Walter)
    4. Major bugs fixed weekly(need a bit more bug fixing)
    5. Server Administration(Casey or Chris update on sysadmin possibilities
    6. Quick update about database optimization (Morgan Tucker and Walter Heck)
    7. Verification process going smooth(update from Chris or Casey about Jim's work)
    8. NDA status (Casey spoke with Matt Whatley)
    9. Contact Us questions supported and answered
  5. Future items to think about for next meeting.
    1. What are some suggestions for a group like the Tech Team with different idealogies, different time constraints, and different cultural background to come to a consensus and agree?
    2. Creating guidelines for improving meetings. Ex: amount of time people can discuss, accountability of current action times each week, etc
    3. Future item 3
  6. Any other business? (quick time to add things, suggest future discussions)
  7. Next Meeting time?
  8. Close Meeting

Notes

Intro

Started at 4pm EDT. Meeting includes Casey, Anu(just listening in), Walter, Chris
Chris: Realizing that no one else is attending the meeting, that maybe we would benefit from changing the time.
Anu: Different time because I am working each day now.


Rotterdam collective

Walter: Can fit about 8 people. Small Collective, 5+-2 people with interview process. Mission would be improving the quality of the tech team and refocusing it. Actively put in place a structure, and then get people involved.
I would be a passive participant because working 40 hours/week, joining on evenings and weekends.
Collective would address major bugs, attempting to reduce to 100.
would be 8 weeks long, June and July

Adding Midsch to QA group along with help from Anu so they can advise us on biggest problem of community.

NDA Status

Casey: I called, left messages and emailed Matt Whatley with all concerns, questions. He hasn't replied. He's working pro-bono so it takes a little longer than normal.
Chris: I am trying to get new techs to sign the NDA, KNOWING that the new NDA in a month or two will NULLIFY the old NDA and will be much better for the techs.
Does this make sense?
Casey: Yes
Walter: Yes
Casey: I really haven't seen any "novel" code in the history of couchsurfing, it's all pretty basic code. (Implying that there is no need to want to take your code with you to another group)

Meeting times

Chris: Would it be better to have the meetings later or earlier?
Casey: Will be back in North America soon, so no problem, could do early as 6am.
Walter: 4pm EDT, 10pm West Europe time is working for him.
Anu: (Relayed by Chris from earlier in the chat) noted she'd like it another time.
Walter: suggests having it on weekends in hopes of getting more participation.

Next Meeting

Chris: For now next meeting will be the same as this week. 4pm EDT, 10pm West Europe time, 8am NZ time.

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