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Snowdrift.coop Roadmap
This is a high-level overview of our path toward launch. The team resources page lists the tools we use.
Major Milestones
This is a rough list of goals we’re working towards. See also https://gitlab.com/groups/snowdrift/-/epics/
Better immediate workflow
Repair Development Pipeline
We’re working on transitioning our front-end to Elm and have a smoother workflow to effectively iterate on the website. See https://gitlab.com/groups/snowdrift/-/epics/5
CiviCRM functioning again
Alpha
“We are operating but processing donations for ourselves only, and the site design is updated enough that we widely announce this.”
Legal and governance
- Bylaws in place
- With legal help, get full draft written up
- Approve Bylaws formally (vote by initial co-op membership [how defined?])
- Adjust governance procedures etc. to follow Bylaws going forward
- Legal review of site policies
Design and development
- More effective “How it works” page(s)
- Update all pages to consistent visual design and code
- Functioning notifications
- Snowdrift.coop front page fleshed out for visitors - explains process (not just via video) and current project status (without needing to navigate elsewhere)
- Updated how-it-works section
- Add “why it’s needed” explainer section
- Add section with examples of public goods
- Add call-to-action section (skills needed, or just get involved in the forum conversation)
- Add project status section (progress bar etc)
Infrastructure
- Do a full charge for patrons overall (would like to align with another event/announcement, SotS?)
- Figure out if we can charge just team members, do so if possible
- Document process for working with OSUOSL? (package updates, etc; process and links)
- Security and auth-management audit and best-practices implementations
Community and outreach
- Recruit another meeting-attending team member (davidak?)
Fundraising
Beta
“It is possible to pledge real money to external projects.” There are actually several smaller milestones within beta (first project, closed beta, open beta…). We will separate tasks out into these milestones when we get closer to working on them.
Legal and governance
- Clarity about legal relations and liabilities with outside projects
- Solidify team governance, roles, and working process (Sociocracy adaptations etc)
- Draft coach/support role
Design and development
- Support for multiple projects
- Implement design for project listing
- Backend support for multiple projects
- Crowdmatching verified with multiple projects
- Improved registration and account management UX
Infrastructure
- Finish transfer of systems (internal tools) to OSUOSL
- Security and auth-management audit and best-practices implementations
Community and outreach
- CiviCRM integrated into workflow
- Recruit first outside project(s)
- Promotion/Partnerships — Maximize patronage levels
- User research/feedback — survey how well visitors easily and effectively understand the core concepts
Fundraising
- Make plan for how to determine fundraising goals / Figure out how much money it would take to get fully launched
- Define then recruit for grant-writer role
- Seek out appropriate grants
Later
Legal and governance
- SSO for Snowdrift tools (wiki, payments platform, etc)
Design and development
- Visible metrics for visitors (like how patreon puts numbers on their home page, $X moved per month!, or kickstarter’s progress bars, $x pledged of $y goal)
Infrastructure
Community and outreach
Fundraising
Progress Updates
TODO: this page needs updating to describe Q4 2020 into 2021. We have continued to work but neglected this page.
Q3 2020
Legal and governance
- Communicate our priority decisions for Bylaws (co-op structure and more) to team, community, outside advisors, and then lawyer — Made progress (formatted concisely as prep for review by lawyer)
- Invite/onboard Adroit to the team — Finished
Design and development
- Add status box & flag to live site — Finished
- Update / revise core MVP, crowdmatching mechanism — Made progress (discussed & came to consensus on some parts)
- Get prototype pages ready for production — Made progress (updated /about page)
Infrastructure
- Finish moving all public-facing sites to osuosl hosting (in time for Aug 26th cert deadline) — Finished
- Close down AWS — Finished
Community and outreach
- Write a blog post — Made progress (Drafted an outline)
- Finish State of the Source CFP (Salt) — Finished
Fundraising
- Make a business plan — Made progress (Discussed with board)
Q2 2020
Legal and governance
- Define our priority decisions for Bylaws (co-op structure and more) — Finished
- Update our forum process for Sociocracy-style consent-agreements (and put to use consistently) — Made progress (Dropped previous cumbersome process)
Design and development
- Clean up the CSS/Sass messiness that is blocking smoother site development — Made progress (foundational work & updated
/donate
page)
Infrastructure
- Continue moving all public-facing sites to osuosl hosting (in time for Aug 26th cert deadline) — Made progress (migrated lists.snowdrift.coop, not-yet-public civicrm website)