Core Radar 80

[gratipay-bot]

← Core Radar 79

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Docs

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

Org Chart

Teams

Teams besides core are folded in from separate radars that didn't have enough vitality to remain separate.

Core

The mission of the core team is to steer Gratipay as a whole in pursuit of our overall mission: to cultivate an economy of gratitude, generosity, and love.

Scope

This radar implicitly covers everything in the Gratipay organization that is not explicitly covered by another radar. It explicitly covers:

• Mission and Brand
• Strategy
• Governance
• repos:
  • https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com
  • https://github.com/gratipay/bot
  • https://github.com/gratipay/access-dashboard
  • https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay-queue-dashboard

Marketing

The mission of the marketing team is to communicate with the market, listening for problems relevant to our organizational mission, and sharing our solutions.

Scope

• https://gratipay.news/
• social media:
  • https://twitter.com/Gratipay
  • https://www.facebook.com/Gratipay
• Events
• repos:
  • https://github.com/gratipay/guide
  • https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay-or-bountysource.guide
  • https://github.com/gratipay/blog.gittip.com

Upcoming

• October 26-27—All Things Open conference (go to All Things Open #757)

Support

The mission of the support team is to help people use our products.

Scope

• [email protected]
• the Support and L2 Support queues in Freshdesk
• https://github.com/gratipay/team-review

Product

The mission of the product team is to design and implement solutions to the problems identified by the marketing team.

Scope

• https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com
  • translation (docs)
• https://github.com/gratipay/grtp.co
• https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay-everywhere
• https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay-badge

Roadmap

1. Finish cleaning up from the Gratipocalypse:
   1. Decouple (IG)
   2. Finish Team Basics
   3. Pivot
2. Knock pay-what-you-want out of the park:
   1. Make Widgets 2.0
   2. Tighten Onboarding Flow
   3. Solve Corporate Sponsorship of Open-Source
3. Knock take-what-you-want out of the park:
   1. Implement an AML Program
   2. Expand Take-What-You-Want Beyond Gratipay

Color code:

• red—external forces that we're under
• green—product development tasks

Accounting

The mission of the accounting team is to account for the money we move.

Scope

• @gratipay/finances
• the https://github.com/gratipay/finances repo
• the statements directory in the https://github.com/gratipay/logs repo
• the [email protected] email address

Priorities

• collect historical statement data (More statements finances#26)
• settle on tooling (convert to GnuCash finances#22)
• catch up on books (catch up on books finances#3)
• resolve escrow imprecision (Radar 31 #389 (comment))

Tech

The mission of the tech team is to support the product team in solving problems in the market.

Scope

• dev
• ops
• hosting
  • Heroku
  • Digital Ocean
  • AWS
• monitoring
  • Sentry
  • PagerDuty
  • UptimeRobot
  • Librato
• Payday
• https://github.com/gratipay/postgres.py
• https://github.com/gratipay/gip.rocks
• https://github.com/gratipay/honcho
• https://github.com/gratipay/environment.py

Priorites

• stop using immutable ids as primary key (use id as primary key instead of username gratipay.com#835)
• other embarrassments

[mattbk]

Broke Freshdesk.

[chadwhitacre]

❗️

[mattbk]

It's back.

[chadwhitacre]

Inbox 2, H1GH 0, L2 Support 0, Vendors, etc. 1.

I just submitted a final (hopefully) draft for my October column.

Shuttleworth (#388) is due this Saturday, so I should look at that here this week.

I'd really love to have the homepage redone before I leave for ATO (#757) on Monday the 26th, because I want to use my lightning talk to promote #BackTheStack (cf. #844). Slides for that are due next Monday, the 17th. That'll also queue us up nicely for YC (#836); invites go out on Friday the 28th.

I know I keep putting off #432, but with lawyers in flux (#842) and YC pressure I think it's okay to focus development on the company side for the next two weeks. Hopefully new lawyers are on board and up to speed by the end of October and we can get #432 done in the first part of November.

Can you live with that, @mattbk?

[mattbk]

Can you live with that, @mattbk?

Yes. I'll be less busy with other things in early November as well.

[chadwhitacre]

Cool. 👍

[chadwhitacre]

We haven't had a blog post in a few months. I guess we wait for gratipay/gratipay.com#4135 (comment)?

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[chadwhitacre]

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[aandis]

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