Team Fusebox Meeting #5

Sept 26th 2:15pm EST via Skype / Connect

http://experts.acrobat.com/teamfusebox

Present

TBA tentative list:

  • Brian Kotek (BK)
  • Patrick Quinn (PQ)
  • Kevin Roche (KR)
  • Michael Smith (MS)
  • Sandy Clark (SLC)
  • Sean Corfield (SAC)
  • Adam Howitt (AH)

Agenda

Core Files

Core Files (SAC):

  • Public Beta will release at MAX Monday 10/1/07
    • Scaffolding alpha add on will be included
    • SAC to give public beta notice to SLC for news section of website
    • AH to coordinate bloggers about this
    • OD to help testing beta
    • release guide/documentation

Web Site

Contributors' Guide (SLC):

  • SLC will deliver guide with information on Styles and HTML 9/27/07. ** as Word to put on site as PDF

Editor Tool:

  • AH sent SLC tinyMCE code snippet by 8/3 - done
    • problem with affecting other farcry sites on same server
    • OD to make suggestions for other WYSIWYG editors

Forums / Server Move (Oguz Demirkapi - OD):

  • SAC will email OD / David Lakein - DL 7/27 to follow-up - done

Clickable Home Page Logo (SLC):

  • implemented on 7/30 - SLC done

Email Forwarding / Server (OD):

  • See Forums / Server Move above (i.e., same status, same action) - done

Case Studies (AH):

  • KR will write a draft on Vodaphone. Talk with with them 10/15/07
  • SAC SEU site in future
  • MS TeraTech fusebox case studies

Documentation:

  • to find new leader for documentation project
    • AH to ask Kelly Tetterton and Cameron Childress, Jon Benyon
    • Brian can help but not lead
  • SAC and SLC to come up with mock ups and game plan to deal with multiple versions of Fusebox by

Trac Wiki Reskin (SAC/SLC):

  • Simeon Bateman says it is painful.
  • Forget about doing this for now.

Test Suites (KR):

  • KR is following up with Vodafone for permission to obtain access to Vodafone code as a test suite (under NDA, not to be released)
  • hopes to get agreement by 8/15.
  • SAC is talking with JPA about using Selenium to automate testing

Test Suites (AH/MS):

  • SAC has contacted AH privately to discuss open source licensing which is a concern
  • MS to send out email request for large FB apps to use as test suites by 8/10.

Proofing Website (SLC/BK):

  • SLC/BK to discussed on 7/31 - Brian will be heading up Editing, Sandy will be leading Website, will be working closely together - SLC). done

Presentations (MS):

  • SAC to send SLC information about his FB remote presos 7/27. done
  • SAC presenting FB55 to cfFrameworks online group 8/2. done
  • SAC likely to present FB55 to Adogo user group (Orland, FL) at some point
  • MS to gather list of FB speakers with contact details by 8/10.
  • MS to ping Adobe UGM mailing list about:
    • possible FB speakers
    • possible UGs to present to
    • MS to ask them at MAX

Articles (JP):

  • MS to follow-up with JP by 9/30/07
    • Farcry approval queue and email not working for

Sample Apps (KR):

  • BK/SLC - will download/test WeGotWidgets? on Fusebox 5.x by 9/30/07. - done and work
    • bug in all versions for new widget
  • BK may have additional WGW versions - he didn't
  • BK to create SQL scripts for DB tables in WGW example by 8/10/07. - done
  • BK to clean up folder structure and database structure.
  • BK noted WGW link on site is broken - SLC promptly fixed it!
  • SAC to follow-up with Jared Rypka-Hauer - JRH about his Fusebox web client app by 8/3.
    • Jared is still slowly working on this.
    • MS to encourage at MAX
  • SAC Cat club sample app if someone else can clean it up - MS to email asking for help on this

Marketing

Video Entry (AH):

New Actions

Web site needs 404 handler and global error handler:

  • Done by OD
    • SLC to fix as they come in or post to trac
    • if high volume 404s then can make short cut list

Documentation for Fusebox 3:

  • MS - ask Jeff Peters - JP about using FB3 book on website content by 8/3 - done - he only wanted to put up one chapter on history which we integrated into current history page

Presentations and Resources:

  • SLC gather list of Fusebox PPT from Google by 9/30 -done
  • SLC will also search UGTV and frameworksconference.com -done
  • SAC will send SLC links to his podcast interviews on cfweekly and cfframeworks by 8/3. - done
  • AOB
    • KR and SAC - Using trac for scaffolding bug reports
    • AH site stats - 500 FB 51 downloads in last month, most popular landing page is getting started page and has high bounce rate - add call to action
      • AH and SAC to update

Vision

Where should we be by the end of...

2007

  • Fusebox 5.5 should be released
  • More sample applications should be available
  • Start Move documentation from wiki to FarCry
  • Public pre-FB4 documentation
    • not sure there was ever FB3 docs on the website
    • SLC has published everything she could find - see Fusebox 3 section of the site
    • SAC has FB2 book PDF and will post on site

2008

  • Fusebox 5.6 / 5.7 releases
  • plan to have FB3 apps running on FB5.x core around this timeframe

Next Meeting

  • Friday October 26th 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm BST.
  • same Connect room, same Skype-based conf call