##Neos Transition Team Meeting 20th Oct 2015
Participants: Gina Steiner, Aske Ertmann, Christian Müller, Ben van Kruistum, Dominique Feyer, Tobias Gruber
Initial Team Meetings have happened and Synchronizers and Prioritizers were elected:
Synchronizers: Christian, Ben and Tobias
Prioritizers: Aske, Berit and Karsten
###Open Questions:
How do we get projects?
- the prioritizers should do this for the short to medium term
- long term should be done by the COP “Products Strategy” (see below)
- Aske will initiate the COP
How do we handle things like press contacts?
- Recommendation: share responsibility in a COP to have backups
- TODO synchronizers: discuss in next retrospectives to build the COP
Which COPs should we have?
- Should form themselves
- Need of a COP “Product Strategy”
- TODO transition team: come up with the guidelines for a COP
- continue from here: Project structure discussion – Neos Sprint 2015 – Frankfurt
- Need to have
- meetings
- minutes
- accountability and deadlines
- List of COPs - see channels in Slack
- TODO Gina: will use COP descriptions from Slack and match that with the information about the new team structure
- TODO Gina is going to work on https://jira.neos.io/browse/NEOS-1632 - to define guidelines for COPs
Guidelines for the council of elders
- in Discourse: Project structure discussion – Neos Sprint 2015 – Frankfurt
- Slack channel #the-council
Jira Board for Transition Team
- TODO transition team (Ben + Dominique)
- Create a useful Jira Board for tasks (check with Daniel)
- Observing / Todo ticket (maybe just an additional column)
Communication
- TODO Gina is going to work on https://jira.neos.io/browse/NEOS-1579 - to communicate the new team structure
- TODO Tobi: write news article about the formed teams
How to make decisions that impact the whole project
- should be made in a COP
- the council could be pulled for a decision
- possibly invite all team members and/or the community to discuss/decide