[maemo-community] Sprint meeting & process

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 15:21, Dave Neary<dneary at maemo.org> wrote:
>
> Ah! I see what you mean. Something like a mail that gets sent a week
> before the meeting, with "Please report status of your tasks", to which
> everyone should reply with their tasks.
>
> What happens if someone doesn't reply?
[...]
>
> I just think that fundamentally the problems we have right now are not
> so much technological as human. Part of the issue might be that there
> are no consequences to not updating status, so it isn't a high priority.
> But then, you can't have all stick, no carrot, you need to set the
> incentives right.

Would it be too blunt to say that the reporting and committing to
tasks is one of the primary roles and processes of a maemo.org paid
contributor; and performance against these will feed into any
mechanism by which they are judged?

We haven't formalised exactly the process by which the 6-month
contracts would get renewed (or not); but suffice to say "having a
job" is a pretty big carrot and "not having a job" is a pretty big
stick, IMHO.

Cheers,

Andrew

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