Hi April,
Super glad that you're revisiting the docs!
I'm currently out of town for a little while, but hoping to
ramp up some dev work from here (turns out parent's houses are
good distraction-free zones...)
i'm dim about what our next goals are
and who/where we want to outreach to about mounting a
router.
I would say that there are a few groups of people:
- The most important folks would be anyone who can provide
us with an internet uplink. It would probably also require us
to be able to install a little gear on their roof or somehow
otherwise transmit that bandwidth to a remote location.
- The second most important group would be anyone who has
access to a high point, whether that be a roof with good line
of sight around them, someone with a radio tower, someone
living in the hills, etc.
- The last group would be anyone who would want to host
one of the "indoor" nodes. We haven't generally had any
problems finding these folks in the past. ALSO, the firmware
for these devices had to be re-vamped and is not yet finished
(hopefully what I'll be doing while I'm here....)
i'd like to request that at our next
thurs meeting
we spend the first hour:
-answering a few questions,
-looking at our existing outreach
list,
-prioritize it, and
-list what materials we
need to update/create to bring our outreach partners a solid
proposal.
I absolutely agree, although I won't be there. If it looks
like there are specific questions or whatever that I can
answer I can try to be on IRC or etherpad for the meeting.
also, does anyone here know what
parts of the wiki need some love? (we can also list the
outdated pages this thurs in 2015)
From my perspective, the parts that need the most love are
documentation of our current progress and status. This also
coincides with our lack of a project management framework. I
know that folks don't really like being cornered into using
tools they don't like, but we're all a little fuzzy about who
is actually working on what and when. I've looked some various
projects and I'm thinking about setting up a test installation
of
https://github.com/malclocke/fulcrum
As for the wiki, the following pages are pretty out of date
and don't reflect much current content:
This is largely my fault, but reflects on the difficulty in
visualizing where exactly we are with ongoing development and
what is left to do
This also largely reflects on the difficulty in visualizing
where exactly we are with ongoing work. It might be a good
start to figure out where exactly we are and what we want to
do and articulate this here
I'm starting to think more and more that we're going to
need to really start generating more income. We certainly have
a good start, but I think that if we ever want to create the
kind of service we're hoping to then we'll need some more cash
(maybe even enough to pay some staff?). This page is already
nicely compiled, but we might want to dive a little deeper to
see if we can actually seize on any of them.
Other people might have other opinions about pages that
need work, but that's what I've got for the moment...
Hopefully some of that is useful.
Max