2019 Protocol Labs RFP Proposal Discussion

🗓 Calendar
📑 Retreat Planning Board

Time: 31 Aug 2018
Location: https://appear.in/offline
Attending: benhylau, dcwalk, garry, yurko

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Agenda

Proposal: https://hackmd.io/He1-2jfvQtOVn6Mx-6rwkA?view

Notes

Feedback from garry

• Clarify salary is for 6 months for multiple people
• Selling Mesh Box on Tindie (producing manuals, etc.)
• “Adding applications through standardized interfaces” seem ambiguous
• Hardware enclosure, do we have the skillset (start 3D case this cycle, real case next cycle)
• Last sentence was surprise! re: Workers Coop
• Different deliverables for different funding targets? (More explicit than now)
• Meshstream can be a relatively low hanging deliverable why not emphasize it?
• Don’t we need to apply to conferences now?
• What type of travel are we actually doing?

Feedback from dcwalk

• Itemized budget
• Translating entire curriculum is a lot of work
• Lead time
• I would suggest removing a bunch of KRs… 6 months will go fast!
• Maybe identify many of these as potential future KRs
• There are parts that feel nice: not just a product, translation/internationalization, facilitation
• Make Tindie like an “experiment with Tindie”
• Pay attention to ongoing support cost
• Parallel discussions on specifics
• Move to Google Doc now!
• Defer some of the KRs (this is too much)
• Tools to manage the project

Actionable Items

• benhylau to come up with a new name for project that does not include the word “mesh”
• benhylau to edit proposal document based on feedback here and notes on the proposal hackmd
• benhylau to port proposal to Google Doc and Spreadsheet
• dcwalk, garry, yurko to review from Google Doc and Spreadsheet
• benhylau to schedule a series of calls to discuss specifics after proposal is submitted, topics:
  • All hands meetings
  • Project management tools
  • Objective-specific working group meetings

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