ThinkTank Meetings

Home page: Open-source Society Project

This is a ThinkTank for designing a website that helps people solve problems in society and manage their related tasks and goals and get rewarded for it. See Project Overview (Google powerpoint)

• Joy's Ideas: Shared Drive
• Marko Cadsawan's ideas: Marko's Shared GDrive
• Bilal's ideas: LINK NAME

Week #	Date	Meeting Minutes	Selected Ideas	Plan for next week
1	Sunday Dec 5, 2021	Looked at the Project Overview Planned for working on the Taxi app idea (will last multiple weeks)	Example	Research existing Taxi app related issues and imagine how people online would work through those issues.
2	Sunday Dec 12, 2021	Analysis For review: Joy | Mark Reviewed Taxi App Business mockup home page Issues/Questions raised: Nuno: The difference between Objectives and Tasks is not completely clear and may confuse people (1) Guides explaining the different concepts used on the website. Also see here Alex: How would interface work when the business is just being initiated? Group voted for using a forum as opposed to an email list for discussions (new sub-reddit)	Example	Continue simulation of Taxi app (go through Ideas, Issues, Tasks)
3	Sunday Dec 19, 2021	Analysis for review: Joy | Mark Reviewed Taxi App Business mockup home page again Discussed Issue resolution with team and got feedback; creating software spec	-	Analyze other websites to see how they resolve issues
4	Dec 26, 2021	Analysis For review: Joy | Mark Decision to continue analyzing Issue handling on other websites (focusing on resolution, answers, responses from people etc and how the best responses are chosen). Thats what we'll do next week.	Example	Start looking at individual Issue pages and taking a close look at what happens there from Issue reporting to resolution and task creation. Focus on resolving a single issue and look closely at what activity takes place. We look at Issue creation, definition, sub-issues (if any), a 'Resolution Wiki' and how Tasks are defined and linked
5	Jan 2, 2022	Analysis For review: Joy | Mark | Bilal	-	-
6	Jan 9, 2022	Analysis For review: Joy | Mark	-	(break for next few weeks)
7	Jan 30, 2022	Looked at work from Jan 9.	- (Joy): Issues Kanban Board (vertical columns for In-Work, Resolved, etc Example), Color coding for various items. (later) custom work flows. Business rules (zoho)	Continue looking at issue details, focusing on new features. Resolving issues, solutions (wiki, collaborative type of work, multiple users involved)
8	Feb 6, 2022	Analysis For review: Joy Adopting a new approach from today, the team will be directly editing the Visual designs in Google docs and we'll meet to review suggested changes.	-	-
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Tentative Plan for Meetings

Discuss the following topics, create visual designs and decide on functionality:

• Home page for Taxi app
• Issue Detail Page
• Problem-solving software
• Task Management
• Reward/Motivational Systems
• ...

Week 1 (Sunday Dec 5, 2021; 10am CST)

• Looked at the Project Overview
• Planned for working on the Taxi app idea (will last multiple weeks)

The action plan was to research existing Taxi app related issues and imagine how people online would work through those issues.

Week 2

Meeting minutes:

• Reviewed Taxi App Business mockup home page
• Issues/Questions raised:
  • Nuno: The difference between Objectives and Tasks is not completely clear and may confuse people
    • Options: (1) Make all these sections collapsible and moveable (2) Simulate the Taxi app business without 'Objectives' (introduce them later if needed).
  • Alex: How would interface work when the business is just being initiated?
• Group voted for using a forum as opposed to an email list for discussions (request submitted to Reddit to restore /r/Javul sub-reddit which we will use)

Next steps:

• Continue simulation of Taxi app (go through Ideas, Issues, Tasks)

Week 3

• Reviewed Taxi App Business mockup home page again
• Reviewed Mark's ideas
• Discussed Issue resolution with team and got feedback; creating software spec

Tasks for this week:

• Analyze other websites to see how they resolve issues

Week 4 (Dec 26, 2021)

Meeting time changed to 9am CST for the convenience of people in other time zones.

• Reviewed Mark's suggestions for the Issues page (he looked at Stackoverflow, Quora and some of his own ideas)
• Reviewed Joy's suggestions
• Decision to continue analyzing Issue handling on other websites (focusing on resolution, answers, responses from people etc and how the best responses are chosen). Thats what we'll do next week.

Next week: Start looking at individual Issue pages and taking a close look at what happens there from Issue reporting to resolution and task creation.

Week 5

Plan: Focus on resolving a single issue and look closely at what activity takes place. We look at Issue creation, definition, sub-issues (if any), a 'Resolution Wiki' and how Tasks are defined and linked