[Design] Apr 11th Design Session: Email Plan

[Priscilla Chung]

Here are the notes from the Design Session: Email Plan today: http:// 
wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/NotesEmailDS0411

-Priscilla

On Apr 7, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> Yes, it is true, we are going to discuss the Chandler 1.0 Email  
> Plan and probably figure out our story for 0.7 along the way.
>
> This first session will be devoted to: Outlining 3 families of  
> Usage Scenarios for Email {and} their attendant implementation  
> issues/options/approaches.
>
> Request for Preparation
> Please bring 5 emails you received in the last week that you had to  
> keep track of for some reason, e.g.:
> + invitation to an event
> + something you had to read in more detail
> + a link to check out
> + a request for task
> + something you needed to reply to
>
> ===
> The 4 families of Usage Scenarios are:
>
> 1. To support Personal {or} Small-Group Collaboration on Getting  
> Stuff Done
> These scenarios should be familiar to us all by now:
> + Mitch and Esther managing Mitch's calendar and Tasks Mitch  
> assigns to Esther
> + Ted and Julie managing Household tasks/events/information
> + PPD team managing PPD tasks/events/information
>
> + Personal usage
>
> 2. Small-Group Collaboration for the benefit of a Larger Group  
> Audience
> + PPD team collaboratively managing the Design list
> + What are some other examples?
>
> 3. Desktop GMail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail
> + What do you use Webmail for?
>
> 4. Replace T-bird, Outlook Express, Apple Mail, Eudora
> + What do you use your Desktop email client for?
>
> ===
> Questions we will address (at a high-level) include:
>
> 1. (30 min) What are Use Cases and Workflows do we need to support  
> in order to provide a usable experience for each of these  
> scenarios? e.g.
> + PPD needs to coordinate the weekly Design Sessions
> + Mitch wants an update on planning for the next OSAF board meeting
> + Ted and Julie coordinate travel plans for attending conferences  
> next weekend and getting the girls to their various week-end  
> activities
> + Bear wants to know what he needs to get done this week in  
> preparation for the Scooby 0.1 release
> + Scanning through 150 new messages to pick out the ones you need  
> to read and deal with first
>
> We're not trying to be exhaustive in this session. We just want to  
> get a high-level idea of what's involved for each group of Scenarios.
>
> 2. (15 min) What does that translate into in terms of features?
> + Reply, Reply all, Forward?
> + Threads? More sophisticated affordances for creating  
> organizational structures?
> + Reading HTML email?
> + Viewing HTML email? Spellcheck?
> + Mail filters? SPAM filters? Whitelists?
> + Drag and Drop emails from existing Email clients?
> + POP mail?
> + Sync with IMAP folders? 1-way subscribe to select IMAP folders?
> + How many flavors of servers do we need to work with?
>
> 3. (40) What are our implementation options for each family of  
> Usage Scenarios?
> + OSAF hosted email accounts?
> + Select a few flavors of mail servers to work with?
> + Support DnD from existing email clients?
> + Tag email messages with special Chandler headers so that Chandler  
> only downloads emails that have this special Tag
>
> (5 min) Next Actions
>
> Mimi :o)
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