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March 15 2009: Too Late for Dinner

For the first time in weeks, CoPress managed a Sunday conference call that actually went a few minutes shorter than expected as we briefly reviewed a few projects that are on the table. Daniel, Adam, Joey, Greg, and Miles were in attendance.

Organization

In organization, Daniel revealed that he’ll be leaving us for a few days to get a few moments of sanity. In the meantime, he’s working on creating a strategic goals document that should lay out the big picture at CoPress. We also want to try to polish off some of the rough edges on our website, with significant facelifts for the team blog (which we’re moving to inside.copress.org) and the main about page. We have the recurring problem of balancing the desire to display copious amounts of information with effective design—and we’ve yet to find the perfect balance.

The main conclusion of our operations discussion was that Project Pier just isn’t cutting it for us as an organization. Tasks are getting lost, checkboxes are going unchecked, and there is no job-tracking to speak-of. So we’re moving back to BaseCamp—and looking forward to a lot more alert-emails in our inbox (and Daniel) to keep us on top of things.

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