Kriti’s work log archive: 2023-08¶

2023-08-26 to 2023-08-31¶

Out of office

Prepped for time off
- Documented my responsibilities that I’m handing off on the wiki
- Hand off calls with Brent & Pavish
- 1:1 with Ghislaine + niche research project discussion
- 1:1 with Mukesh + installation project discussion
- Pre-approved invoices
- Set Brent up with admin access to a whole bunch of things
- Set up vacation status on:
  - GitHub
  - Slack
  - calendar
  - Matrix
  - email
- Sent vacation FYI email to team
Administrative
- Kicked off email thread for contract renewal
- Gusto benefits survey
- Followed up on some benefits stuff
Project management
- Reviewed installation project
Fundraising
- Sent internal funding update
- Sent a couple thank you emails
Comms
- GitHub, email, Matrix triage and responses

Comms
- Caught up on email and GitHub
- Followed up on demo fix deployment / release discussion
- Call with Sean about vacation handoff and benefits
Administrative
- Meeting with Ian about funding logistics
- Meeting with Sam & Adam about funding logistics and administrative next steps
- Followed up on funding logistics
Code
- Re-reviewed wiki PR
- Helped with wiki deployment issues

Team management
- Ran weekly meeting
- Posted meeting notes on wiki
- Made calendar events for next cycle, break, and release
Comms
- Caught up on email, responded to a bunch of threads
- Caught up with GitHub inbox
Administrative
- Meeting with Sam & Adam about next steps for Mathesar organization
Code
- Reviewed wiki PR, updated admonition markup

Partial day (sick)

Out sick

Partial day (sick)

Team & project management
- Responded to thread about Aritra’s GSoC project
- Responded to release thread with some thoughts
- Responded to email discussions thread with decision
- Responded to Postgres compatibility project discussion with some ideas
- Followed up on the “criteria for closing user opened tickets” thread
- Responded to “should we install things on the Postgres DBs” thread with some thoughts
- Responded to Pavish’s feedback discussion with some thoughts.
- Reviewed installation project and sent email.
- Reviewed niche research project and sent email.
- Updated product strategy project and projects page on wiki
- Set up agenda for tomorrow’s meeting
Comms
- Triaged email & GitHub
- Handled Matrix comms
Self organization
- Intro consultation with a work coach

Team & project management
- 1:1 with Ghislaine
- Followed up on installation project
- Followed up on ad-hoc issues
- Followed up on release thread with questions and next steps
- Followed up on next steps with projects from 0.1.3 that aren’t part of the release
- Reviewed Postgres compatibility project
- Followed up on email discussions which haven’t been started yet
Comms
- Triaged email & GitHub
- Responded to email and GitHub issues as needed
- Handled Matrix comms
Fundraising
- Followed up with funder
- Followed up on fundraising workshop scheduling
- Other fundraising related correspondence

Out of office for various reasons

Team & project management
- Ran today’s team meeting
- 1:1 with Pavish
- Augmented and posted team meeting notes on the wiki
- Sent a summary with action items out to the team
Comms
- Triaged GitHub and email
- Responded to pending emails
- Cleared out GitHub inbox and sent some follow ups about user reported issues
- Follow up conversation about backlog organization with Sean and Dom (on Matrix)
Product
- Figured out next steps for remove DB superuser requirement PR

Team & project management
- Ran today’s team meeting
- Added more notes after the meeting and posted notes to the wiki
- Planned out tomorrow’s weekly meeting
Comms
- Triaged GitHub and email
- Some responses
Fundraising
- How to Raise Money workshop session (9/11)

Product
- Product strategy discussion & next steps with Ghislaine
- Commented on copy changes in optional inference PR
- Reviewed product question in DB privilege update PR
- Made some updates to the docs in the superuser creation docs update PR
- Made some updates to the docs and reviewed the Postgres Docker image PR
- Reviewed the UI for creating & managing shares for tables and explorations
Team
- (Long) 1:1 with Dom
- Wrote up and sent out agenda for tomorrow’s weekly meeting
Fundraising
- 1:1 with Geoffrey to do funder call post-mortem
Comms
- Triaged GitHub and email

Comms
- Triaged email and GitHub
- Rescheduled some meetings
- Call with Zack from Openverse
Release management
- Caught up on current state of projects and next steps for release
- Followed up on various project threads
- Made decisions on release cut off date and issue prioritization
Product
- Reviewed i18n switcher PR
- Updated superuser creation copy in this PR
Team
- 1:1 with Sean

Fundraising
- Made adjustments to fundraising script and slides based on feedback from practice sessions
- Practiced fundraising presentation
- Meeting with funder

Day off

Out sick for most of the day

Comms
- Caught up on GitHub / Matrix / email + related action items
- Set up agenda for tomorrow’s weekly meeting, sent email
Team management
- (Long) 1:1 with Brent
Product
- Product strategy discussion with Ghislaine
Fundraising
- (Long) fundraising prep + practice meeting