[Dev-flock] Next meeting

[Clay Ward]

Oh, and I'm going out of town for the weekend.  So I'll get your rsvps
on Monday morning if not Sunday night.

-clay

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Clay Ward <cwallardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
> Please click here to confirm your availability:
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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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>
>
>
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> Clay Ward
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>
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>



-- 
Clay Ward
President and Founder
Buy It Like You Mean It
http://www.BuyItLikeYouMeanIt.org

"Change the world... one purchase at a time."