Status Report 2011-02-12

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Alex Albino

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Feb 12, 2011, 2:05:40 PM2/12/11
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Can someone clue me in on where the following stands?

- What are we going to accomplish during the next 90 days?
- What tools do we need for this?
- Why?

I'd also like to know where I can see a list of collaboration alley
members, and what each member's skill set is here. That way we can be
grouped by trade. For example, I'm a PHP + Zend Framework developer,
but another developer here seems to be pretty handy with Drupal... We
could be grouped into a Developer tank.


If we don't have that yet... then I strongly suggest we first organize
our resources.

We need the following:

- Organize our talent by trade. I'd recommend grouping talented
individuals into at minimum, teams of two.
- Organize the technology we need right now (trac, wiki, staging
environment, production environments, user accounts, passwords)
- Set up a "PayPal Donate" button or some way to accept donations/
sponsors
- Organize a rudimentary and limited first draft of what we will
accomplish within 90 days.
- Describe our Agile development cycle, and what tools will be used
for QA/Testing/Release/Bug Report
- Organize our first draft into a few tasks, and organize tasks in
order (what needs to be done first before the next thing is worked on,
what can be done in parallel?)
- Assign tasks to an appropriate team. Require status reports, at
minimum, on a weekly basis.

Michael J. Fuhrman

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Feb 12, 2011, 3:17:12 PM2/12/11
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Alex,


On 2/12/2011 2:05 PM, Alex Albino wrote:
Can someone clue me in on where the following stands?

- What are we going to accomplish during the next 90 days?
- What tools do we need for this?
- Why?

I'd also like to know where I can see a list of collaboration alley
members, and what each member's skill set is here. 

During the next 90 Days we are going to figure out what product or service Collaboration Alley is going to offer.  We can put a site together, we can build a theme, we can review other sites we consider to be competition, and to be successful we must have product or service that correctly addressed this question, "What does Collaboration Require?" and leaves the client saying "Wow!!!! They thought of everything needed to make Collaboration EASY!!!".

Do you have the answer?  If so, we can start moving forward with mapping out the layout of the site.

One of the discussions we have had thus far is around providing a space for clients collaborating to post their skill sets. WE can do that as a group here in the Google Doc's Section.  When I return this afternoon, I'll post my Vita as an example.

Focus on answering this question, "What does Collaboration Require?".  The sooner we get that answer the sooner we can start coding. =)

Mike,
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WJho...@aol.com

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Feb 12, 2011, 3:18:38 PM2/12/11
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In a message dated 2/12/2011 11:05:42 AM Pacific Standard Time, webm...@alexventure.com writes:


I'd also like to know where I can see a list of collaboration alley
members, and what each member's skill set is here. That way we can be
grouped by trade. For example, I'm a PHP + Zend Framework developer,
but another developer here seems to be pretty handy with Drupal... We
could be grouped into a Developer tank.


Google Groups allows each member to setup a profile.  I edited my profile, I would suggest that would be a good place at least initially to describe your skill set.

Also the Meetup Group setup for this same group, allows a profile as well.  That could be another place.  Or use both.

W

WJho...@aol.com

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Feb 12, 2011, 3:42:49 PM2/12/11
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I like using tools which exist and then mashing them together.  So our group for example is using Google Groups which makes group communication easy.  You can post at Google Groups like a bulletin board, or you can post via an email list and it (supposedly) will keep discussions threaded automatically.

I think that is a good model going forward for any collaborative groups, that we have a way for them to create a new google group if they want to collaborate just among their own group, but also allow linking that discussion up into the collaborative space as another tool.  We can even build a tool to *grab* the threads and display them in-world with links to their actual locations.  That's not a hard script to write.

W

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