AD&T Weekly Meeting + First Support Meeting

AD&T from 11 to 1am and then User Support from 9-10.

• Process: We had a bit of a talk about how the committee functions, how we treat the different roles and whether it works for people - it's good for us to do this, we can see how far we've come and we can look at ways we want to improve. Code and Design are better at working together now and we don't exactly have a Coder Lead, and that seems to be working too. It's very much a community of equals with people of different skill levels helping each other by providing technical advice and/or moral support as the situation requires.
• Co-location: Ordered servers, ordered hard drives from a *different* supplier after we tried to order the eight we wanted from the catalogue and they mysteriously vanished from the website. OMG so many obstacles :p We're also hoping they arrive in a week where half our Systems team are not on holiday
• Deploy schedule: Still on for mid September!
• Bookmarks poll is still open - go vote!
• Invitations is almost coded (elz says she is tweaking it right now) and I am very excited about getting to see it deployed to Test)
• Subscriptions design (which is bingeling's baby) is starting to take shape - this is such a cool feature! The bit where we digressed to discuss the likelyhood of needing to subscribe to all 'high school AUs with tentacle porn' is a sign of how seriously we take this weighty matter
• Open Beta: Still on for October – we’ve drafted the news post ('we' being the awesome zooey_glass) and are trialling it internally to the rest of the OTW before we show it to everyone else.

We also had our first AO3 Support Team meeting - we're putting together a group to review / improve / set up a User Support team / process / software so that we can significantly improve what we do for Open Beta. The early part of the meeting went something like this: (I have totally cheated and taken out spelling mistakes and the bits where people linked their RL names to their fannish names)

( Welcome to the First Ever AO3 and OTW Support Meeting )

Dear Diary, Work, School, TV, Knitting, Painting and Coraline

• Had one of those shivering moments of rage at work where for a second, the alternatives seemed to be demonstrating the versatility of the word 'fuck' or bursting into tears. I settled for explaining exactly how I felt to someone who could fix it, turns out I speak in numbered lists when I'm that wound up
• Been wrestling with work and UWA on the subject of communications technology, UWA have launched a new email interface called MyUWA which has a rather primitive (currently broken) planner function; work won't give me access to Gmail+ Gcalendar because it's a bandwidth hog and anyway UWA have provided a perfectly good alternate service - except of course it's broken. I'm thinking an iPhone may be the best answer to this dilemma
• Leverage 2x04 was silly and fun
• Shaved maharetr's head
• Personal Milestone! Have finished knitting 2 x jumper sleeves and started the front (or back) piece, I have 2 more winters to finish knitting this to replace my favourite jumper - it should finish disintegrating about then
• I planned to take Saturday off, can't quite recall the sequence of thoughts but by 11am it seemed perfectly logical to go buy paint and start prepping my ceiling. It took 4 coats to subdue the awful Purple Walls of Doom and I've only done half the room (rest of the room over the week in stages methinks)
• Coraline in 3D - was magnificent and I strongly encourage people to see it