Problems
- We don't have a clear view of what's the current status of our technical projects.
- There is a perceived lack of transparency that generates lack of trust.
- It's not clear what are the current problems, so people with knowledge, time and willing to help don't know where it would be more useful to spend their time.
- When we notice something is going wrong, it's too late to act, which results in failed projects.
Proposal
Send every Friday an update of the work done during the week on all the Faircoop technical projects.
[To be proposed in the general assembly in october]
What this is not
This is not a tool for worker exploitation. We are building a new world where money is not used to maximize production output sacrificing human well-being.
There will be good weeks and there will be bad weeks. Contributors to Faircoop projects can get sick, get tired and need a break, attend personal issues, etc.
A weekly report is not a way to force everybody to rush and put work on top of everything else.
What this is
This is a tool to be transparent and sincere about our work, to engage new people eager to contribute on the hard problems we are trying to solve, and
to notice as soon as possible when thing are not going as planned and we need to concentrate more efforts on specific tasks.
Who will participate
Every Faircoop technical project is required do a weekly report.
People with an assigned managing role on a faircoop technical project is required to send their weekly report on Friday.
Every person who received payment for working on a technical Faircoop project during the week *is required * send their weekly report on Friday.
People regularly contributing for free on faircoop technical projects should send their weekly report.
Implementation
Copying the style from the Ubuntu desktop team ( https://community.ubuntu.com/t/monday-8th-october-2018/8221 ), the reports will be done in
https://forum.fair.coop/c/technical
Every week, early on Friday, somebody will send the call for weekly reports to the forum. Volunteers? elopio, ...
Every week, any time during Friday, all the people who have worked on faircoop technical projects during the week will send a reply with their status report. It is free form, but it would be good if it answers: What I did this week? what I would like to do next week? what is blocking me?
Every week, late on Friday, somebody will review if all the expected reports were sent, and will send a reminder to the missing people. Volunteers? elopio, ...
Every week, on Monday, somebody will review the reports to make notes of the things that need attention, and discuss them with the parties involved to see if something different can be tried during the week to solve the problems early. Volunteers? elopio, ...
Every month, somebody will take all the weekly reports and make a summary to present on the montly assembly. Volunteers? elopio, ...
Notes
Saying things like: nothing to report this week is completely valid, and useful.
People can send their reports earlier on the week if they can't do it on Friday.
If people will be absent during a whole week and do no work, they should notify about it so it can be noted in the report.
For discussion
Leave your ideas, points of disagreement, or anything else you would like to say here. We'll discuss it, and then improve the proposal with the agreements made here.
