Meeting:Board strategic working group 2010-03-29

Roll Call

• Attendees: John Poelstra, Paul Frields, Colin Walters, Mike McGrath, Matt Domsch, Chris Tyler
• Last meeting: Meeting:Board_strategic_working_group_2010-03-15

User Base Diagram Followup (Paul/John)

• Got several different forms of graphic from different people, both on the Board and elsewhere
• Paul met with Mo Duffy to see if she could help us with putting together a diagram
  • Showed her the different inputs
  • A lot of different purposes; might need more than one kind of graphic
  • Wanted to show magnitude and input of different components of user base
  • Looked like other graphics that describe "communities of practice" with smaller subsets towards top
  • Movement upward is problematic since bottom might be viewed as "bad"
  • Time progression not very useful/accurate in many cases since people can move around
  • Circular diagram gets rid of most of these problems, can portray the same ideas
  • Mo interested in ascribing different kinds of people to areas, hoping to get her to reiterate on advisory-board@fp.org
  • mdomsch: How does this try to address individuals in multiple roles simultaneously?
  • pfrields: Difficult to capture in diagram itself, but may be addressed in narrative around it
• Need to have a central purpose to create a clear diagram--we need to be clear on what that purpose is
  • There are other models already that show how people change involvement/skill in open projects -- this diagram is clearer if it's simply about magnitude of different groups of people and how they affect each other
• NEXT ACTIONS
  • Paul to create a new version of the diagram
  • Post to advisory-board list and request additional feedback from Mo Duffy

Spins (Colin/Matt)

• update Unfinished_Board_issues (
  • move to finished section and tie out page references
• SWG believes all Spins issues have been discussed and resolved to the best of our abilities
• NEXT ACTIONS:
  • Move action items and links to the Finished section to show where we've identified specific issues and are pursuing them with definitive fixes/actions

Work on the Default Offering (Paul/Colin)

• User:Pfrields/Desktop_user_experience_designers
• Since we don't have a group of full time designers we rely on a groups of users with common interests
• How can we get more designers involved?
• Existing page does not seem to directly answer the issue/question being asked
• NEXT ACTIONS:
  • Paul to work on an updated version and send out to everyone today

Next Meeting Topics

• As a group we updated Unfinished_Board_issues with the latest information
• SWG has only two remaining topics to resolve
  • Once the remaining topics are resolved the SWG will officially disband
  1. User:Poelstra/What_is_a_target_audience
  2. User:Pfrields/Desktop_user_experience_designers