2021-11-10 All-hands meeting notes

General updates

Karmen Condic-Jurkic

• Good feedback on benchmarking, blog posts, etc. 🎉
  

Infrastructure roadmap

Jeffrey Wagner

• Recap: What is the roadmap? Why have a roadmap?

  • The roadmap is a way for…

    • external people to see what we’re doing

    • us to catch gaps in our overall plans

    • us to agree on priority/order for different goals

    • new personnel to identify major tasks that they could help with

    • developers and scientists to be accountable to each other

  • We have a roadmap because there are multiple sources of truth for what the org is doing:

    • Our heads - “Here’s what I’m doing today, here’s what I’m doing tomorrow”

    • What we’ve committed to do (“Biopolymers in 2022!”)

    • Our hiring/personnel plans (“Do we need more Matts or Simons?”)

• Process for roadmap review

  • do a first pass of the roadmap to recognize completion of items that are "done" (purple rows in the confluence table)

  • collect newly proposed items

  • vote yea/nay on items proposed for addition or removal (green and red rows in the confluence table)

  • (re)assign priorities and personnel as appropriate

• Infrastructure Roadmap 2022 (In progress)