Blog from July, 2016

The yunity heartbeat - what has each team done, what are they doing and what do the need help with.


Product Team.

Done

Check here for latest scrum for the yunity mvps and quick syscon tool

In Progress

MVP proposal

MVP proposal angular



Design Team.

Done

in contact with Anne from youvo (https://www.youvo.org) (paul youvo - engament Plattform for creatives (voice call)



Development.

Done

Fix conversation error in back-end and make deployed database persistent across changes (Tilmann)

Challenges/help needed?

Write more unit and integration tests for the back-end (Tilmann)



Foodsharing/-saving International.

Done

Fair-Share Point Mini Manual and Cooperations Manual redone as wikipages and linked as pdf-export (Janina Abels)

In Progress

Finalizing the guidelines subpage, completing the second restructuration of the foodsharing wiki (Janina Abels)
Sending out a clarification mail to the Berlin foodsharing.de ambassadors (Janina Abels, Tais Real, Tilmann, Kristijan Miklobusec)
Building up foodsharing in Rotterdam and around (Paul, Axel, Phillip, Selina, Lara)

Challenges/help needed

A Russian speaker is needed to make sense of a link provided by Russian Foodsavers! (Janina Abels)

We need a setup to have the two upcoming MVPs tested and compared on userfriendliness and accessability (Joachim Thome)

Translations, "offical Papers" etc. (Paul, Axel, Phillip, Selina, Lara)
setting up the tools to organize and may even a beta foodsharing version.



IT-Service.

Done

Big OctoberCMS upgrade, many simplifications for in-place editing and translating (Tilmann)

Challenges/help needed?

OctoberCMS: migrate current pages to the new Static Pages type for even easier translatability (Tilmann)
Groupware for Mails: identify best candidate and set it up together with me (Tilmann)



Structure.

Done

Moved Slack calendar notifications from #general and #core-team to #announcements (Tilmann)
New Starting Page for yuniteers with a stream of yunity activity (Tilmann)

In Progress

quick syscon tool for yunity



Legal.

Done

Enabled CC0 logo below each wiki page (Tilmann)
Gathered all license-related content on License Information (Tilmann)



Translation.

Done

German version of the event page (Janina Abels)



Research.

In Progress

Integrating the database of sharing initiatives by www.peer-sharing.de into our own list. (Robert Werth)

Adding the Buy Nothing facebook groups to our own list of gift economy groups. (Robert Werth)

Preparing the data analysis for the Social Media Survey. (Robert Werth)

Challenges/help needed?

We still need someone reliably check for new applicants and write them a welcoming message directing them to the slack channel. (Robert Werth)

Scrum of Scrums, 2016-07-04

The yunity heartbeat - it's sooo cool that stuff is happening! Have a glimpse of it on this page!

1. Pre-meeting summary

 

DoneIn progress

Split up in project specific channels: #mvp-proposal and #quick-syscon

 

 

#mvp-proposal core team

 

#quick-syscon core team

 
Challenges/help needed?

Design Team. Ambassador: Tilmann

DoneIn progress
Website colors are on Color SchemeSysCon "How to organize the design team?"
https://pad.riseup.net/p/organizing_in_design
yunity Logos 
  
Challenges/help needed?

Development Team. Ambassador: Tilmann

DoneIn progress

Work on MVP proposal frontend by Lars Wolf, visit https://yunity.slack.com/messages/mvp-proposal/ to follow

Current walk: Walk#11 planning

Walk goal:   Usable MVP proposal frontend for test and feedback 

Publish MVP proposal frontend on dev.yunity.orgSysCon: Code license
https://pad.riseup.net/p/Code_license_for_yunity
Work on Quick SysCon tool ongoing, most work done by Alex (Instantlink99) 
Challenges/help needed?

IT-service Team. Ambassador: Paul Free

DoneIn progress
 setting up discourse (forum) to improve communication.  (Paul)
 setting up and combining existing opensource tools for the upcoming beta foodsharing community in Rotterdam (research closly to be done, building process starts in some days in Rotterdam) (Paul)
  
Challenges/help needed? problems with setting nginx and docker on the same server to run discourse. (Paul)

PR Team. Ambassador: Philip Engelbutzeder

DoneIn progress
Raphael had several TV and Radio interviews.yunity philosophy
Organizing the Synergy Hub WuppDays (7-27 July) in Rotterdam 
  
Challenges/help needed? video editing. video taking. answering of emails.

Research Team. Ambassador:

DoneIn progress
 building collaborative research strategy (Paul)
 metamap to understand, improve and use the network/resources more effective. (Paul)
  
Challenges/help needed?
  • people how are willing to test several tools and methods for collaborative research strategy.  (Paul)
  • people interested in mapping sessions (Paul)

Structure Team. Ambassador:

DoneIn progress
Channel for Scrum of Scrums: https://yunity.slack.com/messages/heartbeat/ (Tilmann)Collaborative decision finding  (Paul)
 Proposal to change "Scrum of Scrums" to "yunity heartbeat" (Tilmann)
visit #heartbeat to discuss
  

Challenges/help needed?
- help: people interested in testing and improving methods while hosting online events.(paul)

FSINT Team. Ambassador: Janina Abels

DoneIn progress
setting up the 'build your community', 'sharing communities' and 'foodsaving international' pages and content filescompleting the implementation of the guidelines subpage
renewing contact to foodsharing Russia, Taiwan and Polandcreating a list of existing foodshaving initiatives, which then will be automatically displayed on a map
trying to establish contact to foodsharing South Korea (no response yet)copying the restructured German foodsharing Wiki in a dedicated space on our confluence, interlinking it accrodingly and adding missing pages
 collecting success stories of international foodsavers
Challenges/help needed? In the beginning we decided to capitalize technical terms of foodsharing, but i doubt this decision now and there not longer is coherence in the spelling.

Translation Team. Ambassador: Janina Abels

DoneIn progress
4 Core Points translation to Spanish

Italian translation of the website by a team managed by Veronica

  
  
Challenges/help needed? Nothing, since there's not a lot to do anyways. This will change as soon as the guidelines subpage will be published, because then we will need German, French and Spanish versions of that content, too!

2. Notes during meeting

No meeting took place.