User:Ckoehler/Open Planning Checklist
Best Practices
- announce your planning kick-off meeting and all other planning meetings through relevant mailinglists and other channels (blogs, yammer, mopo/moco meetings.
- specifically invite key paid and volunteer contributors
- identify asynchronous and synchronous channels for planning and encourage people to participate
- assign a note taker at each meeting, post notes immediately afterward. keep track of open tasks, deadlines and other reminders that will help your team just in and get work done
- set up a place on the wiki to document all aspects of your project. be sure to archive all meeting notes here.
- use a collaborative editing tool like Etherpad to take meeting notes, and draft blog posts and emails the team will use to communicate about the event.
Checklist
- name and short summary of project?
- wiki page for project
- how can contributors get involved?
- location for asynchronous communication?
- is this open to everyone? mozillians only? staff only?
- is this friendly to those connecting via a low-bandwidth connection?
- is this friendly to those who are not native english speakers?
- location for synchronous communication?
- is this open to everyone? mozillians only? staff only?
- is this friendly to those connecting via a low-bandwidth connection?
- is this friendly to those who are not native english speakers?
- location for meeting and project notes and updates?
- is this open to everyone? mozillians only? staff only?
- is this friendly to those connecting via a low-bandwidth connection?
- is this friendly to those who are not native english speakers?