[openspending-dev] Dev meeting: RESCHEDULED! December 12, 2013

Thu Dec 5 11:07:25 UTC 2013

Hi all,

Short: Developer meeting today moved to Thursday, December 12, 2013.

Rufus Pollock asked us to reschedule the meeting for Thursday next week
so that he could join and bring some news of the new upload process.

There have been no objections to the proposed change. We will therefore
push the developer meeting back one week. The meeting will now take
place on December 12 at 14 GMT.

I will send out a reminder with the updated meeting agenda to the
mailing list next week.

On þri 3.des 2013 16:02, Tryggvi Björgvinsson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Thursday we have our monthly developer meeting (first Thursday of
> December). We're still on dev meeting winter time due to daylight
> savings time so you have to take that into account when I say the
> meeting starts at 14 GMT (although we might start 5-10 minutes past
> unless someone other than me wants to lead the meeting). Like before
> I'll put a few times in other time zones below.
>
> Also, as always the meeting takes place on our IRC channel,
> #openspending on freenode.
>
>
> # Meeting agenda
>
> Last meeting was mostly about bureaucracy. This meeting will be about
> development contributions that don't involve coding (not all of them,
> just two of many ways).
>
> 1. Documentation
>     * We have documentation in a few places now, should we combine?
>     * How do we keep documentation up to date in separate systems?
>     * Do we need to improve the documentation (and how)?
> 2. Translation process
>     * We have a lot of untranslated strings now, how do we get more
> translations?
>     * How do we fit translations into our current work flow (with no
> versions)?
>
>
> # Results from the last meeting
>
> We clarified the role of The Open Knowledge Foundation in OpenSpending.
> The Open Knowledge Foundation contributes to the project as any other
> developer could. The Open Knowledge Foundation might seem to be the
> bossy player in the project, but that's not our intention. It's just
> that there's dedicated staff on the project because The Open Knowledge
> Foundation cares. Anyone can do the same thing. Even the technical lead
> position (currently me) could be passed on to other community members
> based on meritocracy (something we can deal with if the community
> requests it).
>
> We also talked about the importance of translations to grow our
> developer community. This was a great point so we focussed on fixing
> that last November (and we did). More about that in our monthly
> technical update later this week (and more at the upcoming developer
> meeting because it's really important to get this right).
>
> We settled on our vision, purpose, areas of collaboration and skill set
> and even though haven't yet updated any documents we've used our results
> to add OpenSpending as a project to OpenHatch:
> http://openhatch.org/projects/openspending/
>
> When discussing the goals The Open Knowledge Foundation had set for the
> next 6 months we got into a great (in terms of informative) debate about
> where OpenSpending should be heading, what questions it should answer,
> and whose interests the project should be working for. We really didn't
> get around to discussing much more than the first objective of one goal
> so this discussion is saved for later (even though we're now 1 month
> into the next 6 months). Maybe we as developers should just leave
> bureaucracy to bureaucrats and development to us ;-)
>
> # Old logs
>
> We record these meetings. If you want to read the old logs of the
> previous dev meetings they are available here:
> http://meetinglogs.okfn.org/openspending/2013/
>
> Look at the .log.txt files (link in .txt [not .log.txt] is incorrect).
>
> # Time zones
>
> 14 GMT/UTC in different places:
>
> * Los Angeles: 06:00 (6AM) - woah that's early
> * New York: 09:00 (9AM)
> * Rio de Janeiro 12:00 (noon)
> * London: 14:00 (2PM)
> * Berlin: 15:00 (3PM)
> * New Delhi 19:30 (7:30PM)
> * Tokyo 23:00 (11PM) - woah that's late
>

-- 

Tryggvi Björgvinsson

Technical Lead, OpenSpending

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