Has anyone bought or used Outpost before? It looks pretty snazzy and I’d like to be able to access Basecamp on the go, but I’ve been burned by so many pay iPhone apps that I’m not entirely interested in experimenting.
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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.
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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