[Eg-oversight-board] before next board meeting

[rogan at roganhamby.com]

I wanted to bring up a few things before the next board meeting to get them out of the way so that perhaps the time in the meeting can be more discussion.

1) I had to miss the last meeting and when I reviewed the IRC log I admit to having some concerns.  Engagement seemed low.  I admit that I'm comfortable with IRC but I want to make sure the board feels comfortable discussing everything that we need to.  If anyone feels like it would be better to move back to phone calls we should have that discussion.  But, maybe it was also just a fluke.


2) Andrea and Shauna - if you're still interested in playing wranglers to help front end users supply documentation for developers I'm sure that would be welcome so let's try to find some time to chat about it.  The obvious goal (to me) would be test cases but there may be other opportunities and there will definitely be a need for some structure I think.  

http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=qa:eg_test_cases

Here is an example of some already up on the WIKI.  They can be structured a bit differently but this shows you the fundamentals.  It may seem obvious to front end users what has to be done but those kinds of accurate repeated steps are very important.  After those looking at automated tools for testing like selenium http://docs.seleniumhq.org/projects/ide/ is the next step.  

My personal opinion is that once we have some people willing to wear official wrangling hats that they start working with the developer community to identify priorities and what would be most helpful.


3) I'd like to find a couple of souls willing to work with me to look at grant opportunities.  My bias is geared towards looking at what we could do that could be large scale impacts.  To be clear, this would be an investigative function at this time that would bring information back to the board and the community about what we think the opportunities and possiblities are.  We would need to jump logistic, financial and legal hurdles that involve a lot of parties before we decided to do anything but this is the first step on that road.