[General] ops team update: Jan 2007

[Katie Capps Parlante]

Notes from ops meetings this month:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/Journal/OperationsGroupMeetingNotes20070104
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/Journal/OperationsGroupMeetingNotes20070109
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/Journal/OperationsGroupMeetingNotes20070116
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/Journal/OperationsGroupMeetingNotes20070123

Highlights:

+ We made a tentative decision to choose "Chandler" as the "brand" name. 
This name will apply to the desktop application, the web client, the 
server and the service (Cosmo and osaf.us). We're investigating whether 
or not we are likely to get the trademark. We won't be able to get 
chandler.com, chandler.org or chandler.net domains, but have a few other 
alternatives. The branding team has started work on the logo.

+ We created a chandler-users list, moving end-user discussions off of 
design and dev lists. (This list applies to end-users of both the 
desktop app as well as the Cosmo UI and osaf.us). We'd like to reach out 
to very-early-adopter users even before Preview, to help us "dogfood" 
and shake out problems. We have a few people helping out this way now. 
(Thanks Davor and Andre!)

+ We observed that a few of our dogfooders here in the office had 
trouble migrating data from Outlook. (The tool that exported data to an 
.ics file messed up timezones and other information, so Jeffrey had to 
patch up the file before we could get the dogfooders up and running.) 
Sheila (PPD) took the project of figuring out how we'll tackle migration 
from other products. (The solution will likely involve having tested-out 
directions for Outlook and iCal, and a wiki for people to collaborate on 
working out problems with other apps.)

+ Our internal IT team asked about using Cosmo for conference room 
scheduling in our building (with several other organizations). Preview 
might not have all of the features we'd need to make this really work, 
but we might want to set that as a goal sometime during 2007. Sheila 
will investigate the gap, and figure out what it would take to make this 
happen.

+ We discussed other IT projects: bugzilla upgrade is on the shortlist.

+ We had an on-site week (many remote devs come out to the SF office for 
the week.) We didn't do a lot of advance planning this time, just the 
regular activities but with everyone in person.

+ We prepared a blog entry about where OSAF is now in anticipation of 
Scott's book: http://wp.osafoundation.org/

+ We're planning on submitting talks to OSCON, given that it will be 
after Preview.

Cheers,
Katie