Monthly Archive for September, 2008

Our first survey, the Organization Development Roadmap, and where in the world is Populous?

Boy. Things are finally moving forward. The unfortunate side effect of the matter is the work that goes along with it, but it’s exciting nonetheless. This post is the first of what I hope to be a weekly series: every time we have a general conference call, someone takes a half an hour to synthesize what they think the important notes of the meeting are. This will also be the post that powers one of our podcasts, as that’s just the way WordPress works.

First off, I’d like to thank Joey, Kevin, Adam, Greg, Jared and Drew for joining me tonight. We’re not making any money on this little side project in any regard, so it’s wonderful they can see through the cloud enough to give up their Sunday evening. Of the cool action items we’ve taken care of in the past week, a few are worth noting. First, Adam has taken the initiative and set up a Basecamp account for us to use. I’m not drinking the juice quite yet, but it could prove to be a good way for us to manage tasks. I’m particularly interested in a project management tool because I think it will give us the ability to shunt tasks to one another when our school loads get too heavy. Conceivably, if we include enough information in the task, anyone can pick it up. In the past week, we’ve also managed to start an development roadmap for CoPress as an organization, which I think is really important for laying out the vision, and add so many comments to the “Ideal CMS Outline” that Kevin is calling “enough!” More in just a bit.

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