[maemo-community] Sprint meeting this month - and beyond?

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 13:35, Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org> wrote:
>
> I propose that we have a meeting which is a little less formatted
> than usual - with an agenda, and with discussion among maemo.org
> staff, the council, prominent Nokia people and interested community
> members, to do something like renew a 100 days sprint.

Sounds like an interesting idea.

> An off-the-top-of-my-head agenda for the meeting should look
> like this:
>
> 1. Review of progress over the past year of maemo.org team
>    (open discussion)
> 2. Setting priorities for next 3 months for the community -
>    not micro-tasks, but larger goals
> 3. Allocation of ownership & co-ordination responsibilities
>    within these tasks to members of the maemo.org team
> 4. A full & frank discussion of the impact of the MeeGo project
>    on the short-term goals of Maemo
...and the maemo.org team.

> The monthly check-list meetings have not been satisfying for me.
> Nor has not having a meeting at all.

Indeed.

> It feels like we need to mobilise the community around a couple of
> shorter-term goals where we have people actively working together and
> publicly.

There's a risk that big wins like SSO for maemo.org could be seen as
wasted work depending on whether people still *need* maemo.org in 6
months' time; whereas a donation framework for Downloads/Packages
could be transplanted to meego.com.

> Council members, how does this sound to you? It (obviously)
> doesn't make sense to organise this for today, but perhaps later
> this week? Perhaps we could start by opening some discussion
> based on the agenda I've proposed (or one that you'd like to
> propose to replace it) on Talk and here?

Agreed. Thanks for taking the initiative to kick this off, do you want
to open the thread on tmo? If so, I'll do a council blog post to
further point to the discussion.

Cheers,

Andrew

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Maemo Community Council chair