[Dev-flock] Next meeting

[Clay Ward]

Nicely said, Lucy!  On that note, it's time for us to meet up and
review where we're headed this summer (this iteration is called
"Duck").  Lucy and I are going on a 10 day trip at the end of next
week.  So can we meet beforehand?

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Because we all put so much effort into planning our launch party and
press releases I prefer that ramp up slowly to getting serious work
done this summer.  So let's combine our executive board meeting with
our first planning meeting.  A half hour for executive board business
and goal setting followed by an hour (or less) of planning in separate
groups (outreach and dev) should get us rolling.  To help make the
process speedy Lucy and I will bring a proposal for goals and ways to
accomplish those goals.  We'll also send a complete agenda before the
meeting so that you can think about changes to suggest.

Here's the structure we've come up with so far:

exec agenda (unordered):
 * go over duck goals
 * fyi: review current budget
 * new members
breakout
 * add all stories to list (go over scope, criteria)
 * prioritize stories
 * people accept stories

Great, I look forward to seeing ya'll again soon!

-clay


On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Lucy Mendel <lucy at thoughtandmemory.org> wrote:
> yo,
>
> I don't usually write formal messages to the whole team. Nonetheless,
> BILUMI/TAM passed a huge milestone yesterday. Lest it go unnoticed, I
> would like to point out why we should all be proud.
>
> Our accomplishments this past iteration--the last 3 months in our 12
> month history--have been tremendous. To name a few:
>  * Establish a project management system and improve team communication
>  * Collaborate with the Center for New Civic Media
>  * Initiate community page designs
>  * Design and begin implementing second comic book
>  * Build SMS system demo
>  * Redesign web application
>  * Publish new diagrams of how system works
>  * Quadruple youtube fan club commercials
>  * Make raven puppets to crash an ecological sustainability fair
>  * Outreach at MIT Museum's science and earth week, MIT's
> entrepreneur's  club, Harvard's Berwick conference
>  * Change our name, logo and identity
>  * Expand our blog into an interesting journal of events
>  * Improve team communication and effectiveness
>  * Apply for 2 grants and send 4 letters of inquiry
>  * Get written up in 4 blogs and media sources (and counting)--list
> will  be available online soon.
>  * Have our own chocolate bar wrapper
>  * Have incredibly successful launch party
>
> All of these accomplishments have real impacts on the future of
> BILUMI/TAM. The launch party, a culmination of our efforts this
> iteration, is especially meaningful for the organization as a whole. As
> from a Bar Mitzvah, the organization has launched into the public
> consciousness, not as the "neat concept" it started as, but as a real
> organization with the process, technology and committment to mature into an
> organization's equivalent of adulthood.
>
> (If you haven't yet appreciated and celebrated our accomplishments please
> take the time to do so right now.)
>
> Great! We are now in the Duck iteration, effective today through August
> 31st. What gets done this iteration depends on the interests and
> commitment of each of us. This could include:
>  * Fix bugs and add features to web application and cellphone system
>  * Import and research tons of data
>  * Acquire more funding, users, contributors and volunteers
>  * Present in more conferences and appear in more media
>  * Initiate collaboration with local teachers for fall semester
>  * Publish second comic book
>
> We'll have an organizational-wide meeting soon with breakout sessions for
> going over duck goals, stories and commitments. That might also be a good time
> for process and accomplishment feedback.
>
> Good work,
> Lucy.
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Clay Ward
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