[Design] [Sum] Last week on the design list (Jan 24-29)

[Sheila Mooney]

Scooby
Sheila posted an updated Scooby planning page, with more specifics  
about dates and features for 0.1: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/ 
view/Journal/ScoobyPlanning

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Decisions
We closed on the floating timezone proposal: deciding to go with a  
preference to turn on timezones and to present events as "floating"  
if the timezone preference is turned off. [Next action: Write and  
review spec.]

  0.7 issues
Mimi sent out a meeting agenda for the Open Design Session:  
Scheduling and Invitation Workflows. The meeting agenda was  
eventually changed to address communications in Chandler from a  
broader perspective. Notes can be found here: http:// 
lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-January/003986.html

We continued the thread on Invitation workflows, touching on  
interoperability issues (Jeffrey and Lisa) as well as user mental  
modeling (Alec) and more interaction workflows (Philippe). [Next  
action: 2nd Design Session on Scheduling and Invitations.]

John sent out some 3rd party possibilities for implementing sections  
in the Table widget. [Next action: Apps team reviewing options right  
now.]

Dogfood
Sheila summarized the Dogfood feedback for 0.6 calendaring. [Next  
action: Design to bucketize feedback into "release plan" proposal.]

Mimi started a thread on how it might be difficult for people to  
understand that Chandler calendar collections can behave the same as  
Categories in Outlook calendar. Jeffrey continued it which led to  
some specific proposals from Alec about how we could auto-categorize  
email for users. [Next action: Propose "Organization Models" as a  
topic for a post 0.7 planning Design Session.]

Ted passed on some dogfood feedback from the blogosphere re: error  
handing.

1.0 Issues
Mimi posted notes from an ad-hoc meeting about Email during sprint  
week. A proposal was put forth to treat Email as support for  
Calendaring, Dashboard and Extensions to Chandler in 1.0. [Next  
action: Sheila to send out a more formal proposal.]

Jeffrey proposed an idea for a "temporary" collection tray for items  
a la Picasa.

Mimi posted notes from an ad-hoc design meeting with Morgen, Ted,  
Bear and Priscilla during sprint week proposing a unified approach to  
getting data in and out of Chandler. [Next action: Follow up with:  
"What should we do about this in 0.7" meeting (once we've nailed down  
Dashboard and Invitations).]

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Community
Ted sent out a call for projects we could work on with OSU's OSL  
(Oregon State University - Open Source Lab) [Next action: Group to  
submit ideas.]

Brendan wrote in asking for directions to the nearest Vista prototype.

Priscilla announced an IRC Scooby channel mtg on community last  
Friday. (summary notes to follow)
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/script/getIrcTranscript.cgi? 
channel=scooby&date=20060127

Process
Sheila proposed a new tag for hilighting "last calls" for input  
before final decisions are made.

Katie proposed changes to IRC and would like feedback: more often,  
more informal and open to anyone to facilitate a topic. [Next action:  
Feedback from the group.]

Mimi proposed processes around eliciting Dogfood feedback from users  
who come to the list and/or IRC channels for tech support.

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Design exercises
Priscilla posted notes from the User Scenarios Game during Sprint  
week: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/DesignExerciseGame

Research
Ted forwarded an email sent to the general at osaf list by Wolfgang  
Keller, suggesting some related task/project management apps to look  
at: Task Coach: http://members.chello.nl/f.niessink/ and Faces:  
http://faces.homeip.net/index.html

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