Radar 53

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Docs

http://inside.gratipay.com/howto/sweep-the-radar

Scope

This radar covers everything in the Gratipay organization that is not covered by another radar.

Roadmap

Short Term

Embarrassments:

• not using immutable ids (use id as primary key instead of username gratipay.com#835)
• widgets are broken (Widgets for Gratipay 2.0)
• escrow imprecision (Radar 31 #389 (comment))
• no payroll! bring back take-what-you-want gratipay.com#3433 (Payroll)
• Team and ~user pages are the same Differentiate participants and projects gratipay.com#3852

Long Term

Color code:

• red—external forces that we're under
• yellow—administration
• green—product development
• orange—marketing
• blue—capitalization

[chadwhitacre]

Now that gratipay/gratipay.com#3110 is landed, I've manually updated the owner of the aspen team to be ~Aspen.

https://gratipay.com/aspen/
https://gratipay.com/~Aspen/

[chadwhitacre]

I'm really encouraged by the traction we're getting with the take-what-you-want story (#552)!

• we're queued up for the Platform Coops book
• OuiShare Fest is giving us a great spot on stage
• OpenSource.com is excited about us
• Code & Supply is excited, too
• we even have a shot at Abstractions

We need to keep chipping away at grossnesses such as capping unfunded dues and db + accounting cleanup and widget cleanup, and of course we need to stay on top of our security queue. But with the opportunities that are lining up for us to tell the "take-what-you-want" story, I for one am ready to dive into identity and then payroll for the Gratipay Team ... and then for everyone else!

Yay for product and marketing! ☯

[rohitpaulk]

My focus for this week is to get gratipay/gratipay.com#3873 (team receiving page) out and take a look at Amazon SES (#515)

edit: And run payday

[chadwhitacre]

!m @rohitpaulk

Awesome! I will try to help as I'm able.

@aandis Do you have any cycles this week to help @rohitpaulk land gratipay/gratipay.com#3980 gratipay/gratipay.com#3981 and gratipay/gratipay.com#3873?

Today is full of calls for me: French tutor, Cobudget, @tlevine, and Bountysource. Tomorrow and Thursday are clearer.

[chadwhitacre]

Some 🚿 thinking this morning: we are a "functional non-profit." We're not organized using a non-profit legal structure, but we act like one because we don't distribute profits to our owners (our owners participate in compensation sharing the same as the rest of our members—i.e., not at all just yet! :). Something to work into the "Governance" chapter of The Gratipay Guide, as well as the question of our operating agreement (#72).

[chadwhitacre]

Inbox 4, H1GH 1, L2 Support 0, Vendors, etc. 0.

[aandis]

Sure. I'll go over them and see what I can do. :)

[chadwhitacre]

!m @aandis Thanks! :-)

[chadwhitacre]

I have to admit, spending an hour and a half listening to our closest competitor point out that we have a page full of nickels has me kinda 🔥d up.

[chadwhitacre]

Also, Recurrency:

Recurrency was dreamed up on a WriteyBoard in Noe Valley.

Actually, it was dreamed up in my head, and then Jason Calacanis found someone to clone Gittip when I wouldn't talk to him privately. 🍤

[chadwhitacre]

Okay, enough grousing. To bed! 😴 💤 :-)

[rohitpaulk]

we have a page full of nickels

Increase the minimum tip to 1 dollar 🎉 I remember suggesting this a while ago, can't seem to find the ticket though. I guess I'll create a new one if I can't find it today

[chadwhitacre]

Increase the minimum tip to 1 dollar 🎉

Then I'd have to up my giving by $66.50 (256%) in order to keep 70 out of 171 approved teams (40%) from receiving 0. 😞

I don't think we want to cut off the bottom end, I think we want to add back in the top end. How do we bring back companies giving on Gratipay?

[chadwhitacre]

How do we give our Teams the tools they need to succeed?

[aandis]

I remember suggesting this a while ago.

@rohitpaulk we had a discussion about this a while ago but we didn't create the ticket.

[chadwhitacre]

@aandis @rohitpaulk Upping the minimum from $0.01 to $1.00 might make a difference if we had lots of givers < $1.00, but 40% of our teams have no givers at all. 0 x $1.00 is the same as 0 x $0.01. How do we change the 0?

[mattbk]

I’d bet that @Medium introduces some sort of micropayment features soon.

https://twitter.com/R27D/status/717548120691769348

[chadwhitacre]

I've deployed 1946, which includes gratipay/gratipay.com#3986, gratipay/gratipay.com#3984, and gratipay/gratipay.com#3983.

I'm now deploying a fix for H1-115284 ...

[chadwhitacre]

gratipay/gratipay.com@4edbaf7 deployed. As you were!

[chadwhitacre]

We're due for another blog post. Maybe on our HackerOne program? It's become quite important to us—to me at least, in terms of time and attention spent on it.

[chadwhitacre]

@rohitpaulk @clone1018 Let's get in the habit of announcing here when we're going to deploy. That way hopefully we can avoid stepping on each others toes (not that it's usually an issue right now, but it's easy enough to do and a good habit to form).

[chadwhitacre]

I'm deploying gratipay/gratipay.com#3987 ...

[rohitpaulk]

"Radar ticket as a mutex"

[chadwhitacre]

@mattbk Do you remember what tickets we +1'd recently for the AsciiDoc maintainer? They were coming to us from Bountysource, we should really try to make them happy.

[chadwhitacre]

Deploying c9e9ac2 got hung up in Travis. I've restarted the build.

[chadwhitacre]

Hmm ... failed again ...

[chadwhitacre]

Fixed in 28dcc03. IG deployment is back on track.

[mattbk]

@mattbk Do you remember what tickets we +1'd recently for the AsciiDoc maintainer? They were coming to us from Bountysource, we should really try to make them happy.

I don't remember without additional information, sorry.

[chadwhitacre]

@mattbk It was something about companies needing invoices (I thought, though I don't see anything recent on gratipay/gratipay.com#1199), and ... bank payins?

[chadwhitacre]

Found it! gratipay/gratipay.com#777 (comment)

[mattbk]

gratipay/gratipay.com#777 (comment)

[chadwhitacre]

💃

!m @mattbk

[mattbk]

Nice work everyone this week!

[chadwhitacre]

They were coming to us from Bountysource, we should really try to make them happy.

Reticketed as #563.

[chadwhitacre]

Inbox 5, H1GH 2, L2 Support 0, Vendors, etc. 0.

[chadwhitacre]

@rohitpaulk Wanna deploy gratipay/gratipay.com#3981?

[rohitpaulk]

On it..

[rohitpaulk]

Deployed, script output verified.

[chadwhitacre]

Woo-hoo! One less pretty embarrassing thing! 💃

[chadwhitacre]

Dang. Ridin' pretty high after #563 (comment). Let's make that happen!

Looking at milestones ...

• I just converted "Email" from a milestone to a label. I think that better fits the way those tickets were related.
• Where's the verb!? I just renamed a few to make it clearer that these are basically big todos:
  • "Payroll" → "Bring Back Payroll"
  • "AML Program" → "Implement an AML Program"
  • "Team Basics" → "Finish Team Basics"
• I still think we should prioritize Finish Team Basics and Pivot. We are so close! Let's finish those up.
• Let's talk about what comes next:
  • Bring Back Payroll
  • Implement an AML Program
  • Tighten Onboarding Flow

I would actually propose a new milestone: Solve Corporate Sponsorship of Open-Source. We know from #563 and from past experience that this is a big opportunity for us. The market is there and it hasn't been cracked yet. I'm pretty sure we still want to go after it—how does everyone else see this in relation to our other milestones and potentially other opportunities?

[chadwhitacre]

I'm deploying gratipay/gratipay.com#3873.

[chadwhitacre]

We just deployed a "Receiving" page for Team owners.*

*Warning: it's a bit rough. Release early, release often! :-)

https://twitter.com/Gratipay/status/718893435671814148

[chadwhitacre]

And with that, I think we've got the Finish Team Basics milestone down to four tickets! Can we keep pushing and get that milestone closed?

[chadwhitacre]

I've added a number of tickets to "Solve Corporate Sponsorship of Open-Source," though I don't think we should dive head-first into that quite yet. Let's see how #563 goes.

[chadwhitacre]

The "Widgets for Gratipay 2.0" milestone in the grtp.co repo should be considered another chunk of Pivot, and perhaps even part of Finish Team Basics.

[chadwhitacre]

Email (what?)