October 18, 2018 - Platform Coop - Team Update Meeting

Owned by Dana Ayotte
Oct 30, 2018
  • Identifying people to co-author the “personas” - freelancer, coop member etc
    • explain them in a way that makes sense to that group
  • translation is tricky - 5 or so on the page now already - hope would be to have a google API
  • Mozilla wants to support us - they became more concrete (not a huge amount of money)
    • can we ask them for something else?
  • send email to all surveyists with “deadline” of end of next week (DA)
  • communicating to the community is such an important part
    • therefore UX early in the process
    • telling them about it, getting them involved
  • Jutta and Trebor had talked about having a tab/article on the site about “sleeping with the enemy” to explain why we are working with Google
  • annotate with bullet points each site example for design sense (DA):
  • Timeline:
    • scheduling tool e.g.
    • start with a gut feel - provisional ideas - high level planning for the windows
    • scheduling is complex because of these reasons - we will refine
    • Can PCC provide a gut feel brain dump of the sorts of things we want in the scheduling tool, a governance tool - that will help us a lot
      • that’s a bit difficult…it is out of our depth…we can write that down
    • if that’s difficult than we have to treat the timelines differently
  • We did get another grant - Distributed governance
    • hire 4 SEWA researchers
    • one from IDRC
  • need more detail for reporting than what is on the wiki
    • Michael - the 5 questions:
    • 2-3 sentences per question, 5 questions
    • will help the research office - develop the scope of work - the WINDOWS of scoping
  • in addition to the 2 tools:
    • MAP - survey - reaching out to find other projects not yet on the map
    • which standard, how compliant with other databases?
    • Jutta - data visualization of this to something that policy makers can use (show the data)
    • more features, more interoperability
  • blog post about India - has details there - take a look
    • social network
    • making decisions
    • education
    • everyone add details - we will merge it all
  • Need MILESTONES for research office (not timeline)
    • iterative plan - co-design every quarter e.g.
    • how many embedded co-design
    • for the tools - we will spend X amount of time on it
    • e.g. a tool we can build in 8 months
    • see Michelle’s Trello board