Notes from P2PU Community Meeting - 9 July 2011

[Rebecca Kahn]

Hi everyone

Apologies for sending these so late. Blame it on the cold and flu meds that have reduced my brain to mush over the last week. Anyway, here are the notes from last week's Community call, just in time to read before the next one!
All original notes, plus old ones, can be found on the etherpad here: http://pad.p2pu.org/community

Happy days
Bekka

9 June 2011

Agenda

• Dev discusion points:
• Short overview of what was implemented during the last release -- https://github.com/p2pu/lernanta/wiki/Release-0.7-change-list
• Report about dev meeting -- https://github.com/p2pu/lernanta/wiki/Dev-Meetings-June-2011
• Discussion about short term dev priorities -- http://pad.p2pu.org/future
• Trickle campaign ideas (Pippa and Ali)
  
  Primary "drips"
  http://pad.p2pu.org/drip
  engagement ladder - interaction map
  https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1_A82YtkCtcb1I1iVZh0QtqcWIcOEgCxw7TEpuepXJgM/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=CNesv5YJ

• Connecting dispersed interests: (+1, love these ideas! jessy) (Pippa and Ali)
• Dissolve uservoice course suggestions. (losing logins)
• Replace with tagging of interests and learning goals in profiles 
• Connect with others who have similar interests
• Collect data on popular tags

• Hiring
• SoW Product Manager
• P2PU Product Manager

• Update on metrics work - http://pad.p2pu.org/metrics
• Catch up on migration (push to next weekend likely)
• Badge pilot update/question about timing

Attendees

• Bekka
• Alison
• Jessica Ledbetter (lurking mostly as well -- working)
• Pippa
• Philipp
• Matt (listening / lurking only -- can't really talk)
• Zuzel
• Erin

Standups: (add as you arrive)

Bekka: 

• Migration messaging
• Admin stuff: bank account, contracting
• Prep for Berlin

Jessica:

• Coded some stuff for 0.7
• Answered some dev questions for Lernanta study group

Pippa

• engagement map (follow up from Mozilla peer review)
• talking with Moz Dev Network (MDN) tying in with monthly Dev. Derby

Alison

• scripting screencasts
• updating help desk
• taking on intern Rosalyn

Erin

• helping alison with intern rosalyn (if overlap with assessment makes sense)
• getting feedback/help from community on new badge assessments
• hiring for assessment specialist position

Zuzel

• release 0.7
• writing snapshot of user feature request too be transformed in a roadmap and priority list
• dev meeting

Philipp

• Hiring SoW Prod Manager, and P2PU Prod Manager
• Open bank account (fingers crossed)
• Legal stuff - terms of use, privacy 
• Metrics with Jessy

Notes

Dev update

• Google search integrated (for searching inside groups)
• Account "deletions" now possible - don't delete all the data, but show content as authored by "anonymous" - won't receive email, or appear in list of participants
• Added donation link
• And lots of small things
• Donations (sadly) don't go to Philipp. They go into the Mozilla donation service, tagged as School of Webcraft. 

Trickle campaign

• http://pad.p2pu.org/drip
• Timing questions: how long do we wait to nudge people? 
• As soon as you join you get a message 
• Those who don't participate: 
• after 2 weeks a follow up mail
• Reminders to add images to profile
• If there are few/no tasks: messages to remind and direct to help Desk
• 1 week after a group is open, if there are no tasks, send a nudge message
• engagement ladder - interaction map
• https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1_A82YtkCtcb1I1iVZh0QtqcWIcOEgCxw7TEpuepXJgM/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=CNesv5YJ
• The goal of the notification is to have useful information sent to participants

• Next Steps: 
• make help desk screencasts for prompts (tasks, finding resources/openness)
• reFormat http://pad.p2pu.org/drip and send to community list for input

Connecting dispersed interests:

• Idea for the future (but tags will be implemented soon, so can start experimenting)
• Learners use profiles to share ideas - at the moment is is taking place in uservoice, and we need to harness the energy

Hiring

• SoW Prod Manager
• Open call: Led by Matt & Philipp, with input from John, Paul Osman (and Ryan COO Moz, Mark CEO Moz, Pippa)
• http://pad.p2pu.org/platform-lead
• Hiring from community: Led by Philipp, with input from (1) community [Ali, and Jane] (2) board, and specifically Nadeem, Erin, Zuzel
• Discussion about general hiring practices at P2PU
• Possible process for the future: nomination system? Asking community for feedback?
• Asking the community can be tricky - implication is that there is a public vote of some sort, which may not be the case
• Sometimes the lead time/budget/timing can be very short and tricky, so consulation time can be very short
• Deciding on what the role is, is critical - with input from community
• Good idea to ask for nomination from the community (or self nominations) when we are not doing an open call
• In companies I have worked for in the past, when a new position was created with an internal candidate in mind, they still posted it for 2 weeks to fairly give other people a chance to come forward. So we could set a time limit and take nominations
• Me too or when we convert someone like a student to a full-time. We all internally know who's getting it

Metrics

• Jessy is going to take a stab at pulling a first set of metrics: discussion here: http://pad.p2pu.org/metrics
• This should provide a first set of report-back metrics

Migration

• Are we wanting to migrate this weekend? or push it to next weekend?
• follow up with remaining organizer

Badge Pilot Report Back

• There had been some issues with the pilot -  the first time round:
• Erin and Pippa found 14 new skill badges! which is great. But not scalable.
• Want to have good assessments for the next phase, although we don't have enough badges so need to rethink the timing and call for feedback

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Rebecca Kahn
Skype: rebekahn