[IAEP] Communicating project goals and Roadmap

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 00:40, David Farning<dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> This thread is an attempt to help clean up a couple of issues that
> have been cropping up over the past couple of months.
>
> There have been a couple of instances of suboptimal communication
> between different parts of the project.
>
> Several times recently, external organizations have been looking for a
> big picture view of what is happening at Sugar Labs.
>
> The .84 release was pretty easy to coordinate.  The development team
> picked a release date about six months after .82.  The developers
> followed the time line pretty well.  Simon did a fantastic just with
> just a stick and a handful of carrots as release manager getting
> getting the release shipped on time.  The only two external
> organizations we worked with closely were Fedora and OLPC.
>
> With the midterm release of Strawberry, we have seen the importance of
> improving communication with more internal groups and external
> organizations.
>
> Internally, we have seen the importance of synchronizing development,
> marketing, and the project as a whole's time lines and goals.
>
> Externally, we have seen a significant increase in external
> organization participation.  Several university have express
> interested in working with SL.  Several distributions are becoming
> more involved. Several new pilots and deployments are participating in
> Sugar development rather than just consuming Sugar.
>
> A first step will be to start working on project and team level road
> maps which assign dates and champions to significant events.
>
> Sugar Labs and each team already have  roadmap pages listed.  Over the
> next couple of weeks, I would like to work with the development, SoaS,
> marketing, infrastructure teams to create roadmaps and goals.  (This
> is not to exclude any other teams participation.)
>
> Then using iteration and project level goals we can start linking the
> roadmaps together.

Sounds great!

Tomeu