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Sunday’s meeting is canceled

Daniel — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:51:10 +0000

Because the majority of the team will be at BCNI Philly, I figured it doesn’t make any sense for us to have another call on Sunday afternoon. Conference calls will resume the following Sunday, the 2nd of May. For those that aren’t going to be able to make it to Philly, we can patch you in on Saturday evening if we have any sort of discussion at dinner. I think most of it will be pretty minor, however, and what is important will make it onto this blog.

On a 19 hour bus ride this Sunday

Daniel — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:57:22 +0000

I’ll be on a 19 hour bus ride this Sunday so, unless someone wants to Skype-Out to my cell (which probably would cost a bit), I won’t be able to make the weekly conference call. I have a few things I’d suggest you guys talk about, though:

Hosting – Now that we’ve launched our first website, we should spend 5 or 10 minutes going around the table and discussion what we think was good and ugly about the launch. It’s good for both a recap and to develop a checklist for the next site we move and launch. If you have anything that comes to mind immediately, leave it as a comment on this post or on the agenda.
Policies – We’re now an organization, so I think we need to start penning common organization, communication, and technological policies to paper. For instance, someone (I’m still not sure who) changed the permalink structure on the main website in recent history. It’s easy to forget, but changing the URLs on a production site can suddenly lead to 404’s from every single link we’ve ever head. This isn’t good. I’m still waiting to hear back as to how recently this happened (to figure out how we should address this small fire), but the takeaway is this: we shouldn’t have any more unilateral technology decisions. There were a couple of typos in the blog post published last night, so it’s probably important to make sure all of the content we publish sees another pair of eyes. These are the types of policies we should brainstorm.
Benchmarks for the near future - We created an Excel spreadsheet that identified benchmarks for CoPress. I think these should exist at the front of our brains a bit more, and that we should revisit these at the conference call.

Anything I’m missing? I think either Adam or Joey could be good facilitators for the call.

Greg goes to Idaho, Feb. 5-15

Greg — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:52:17 +0000

I’ll be mostly off the grid from Feb. 5-15 because of a trip to Idaho to cover the Special Olympics winter games with a group from the University of Miami, along with students from various other universities.

I expect to have Internet access when I’m not working, which could be about 20 hours a day. I’ll have my phone with me, of course, so text message or direct message is the best way to get in touch with me for anything pressing.

We’re mostly doing videos and photos, so there are periods when I’ll be completely out of touch.

I’ll keep up with things as best as I can, as well as weigh in as much as possible.