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Kriti’s work log

I’ve moved my work tracking and log to Basecamp.

2023-11-22 (Wed)

  • Weekly team meeting
  • Orientation / onboarding meeting with Insperity
  • 1:1 with Adam
  • Lots of administrative and IT stuff for the org transition, including (but not limited to)
    • Signed up for corporate bank account
    • Reconciled invoices and receipts across multiple folders
      • Google Drive permissions are awful
    • Various wire transfer related issues
    • Quick call with Sean to go over payroll and benefits next steps
    • Back and forth with Sam on various permissions things
    • Changing more account emails
  • Email + Matrix + Slack + GitHub catch up

2023-11-21 (Tue)

  • More administrative and IT changes for org transition
    • Follow ups for email changes
    • MassTax account issues
    • Updated Freshdesk account and emails
    • Renamed Twitter account name
    • Followed up on a broken CCI website
    • Updated GCP IAM group names
    • Followed up with documentation for bank account access
    • Accountant follow up
    • Domain name WHOIS / contact info updates
    • Signed and sent a whole bunch of documents for bank / brokerage account
  • Call with Adam to catch up on ongoing admin stuff
  • Scheduled 2024 board meetings
  • Email + Matrix + Slack + GitHub catch up
    • Reviewed new design update
    • Responded to chat email
    • Reviewed and responded to design issue prioritization email
    • plus a lot more emails and responses
  • Re-verified GitHub Pages domain
  • Prep call with Sean for user call
  • Call with user
  • Prepped agenda for tomorrow’s weekly meeting

2023-11-17 (Fri) & 2023-11-20 (Mon)

  • Mostly a blur of administrative and IT changes for the organization
    • Updated GitHub organization URL + related changes
    • Updated Google Workspace domain, logo, name, etc. + related changes
    • Updated a LOT of other sites
    • Updated my email on a lot of sites
    • Took over Sam’s accounts on a LOT of sites
    • Lots of chatting with support, etc.
    • Cleaned up older CCI accounts
    • Talked to a bunch of different people about their Slack accounts, etc.
    • Transferred CCI Slack ownership to Sam
    • Lots more small things
  • 1:1 with Pavish
  • 1:1 with Brent
  • 1:1 with Ghislaine
  • Call with Ian
  • Call with Sam
  • Email + Matrix + Slack + GitHub catch up + various follow ups
    • Grant acknowledgement letter
    • CCI website changes discussion
    • Design discussion for bidirectional navigation

I’m sure there’s a bunch of stuff I’m not remembering, but I don’t think it’s worth putting all that into the work log.

2023-11-16 (Thu)

  • Email + Matrix + Slack + GitHub catch up
    • Followed up on some pending GitHub issues
    • Followed up on org insurance todo
    • Reached out to publicist
    • Other responses and conversations
  • Design call to talk through bidirectional navigation issue
  • 1:1 with Sean
  • Reviewed everyone’s work logs and talked to a couple people about updating the work log format
  • Prepped a list of open questions for administrative / org transition stuff
  • Call with Adam and Sam about administrative stuff
  • Organized todos related to administrative / org transition stuff
  • Signed new org insurance
  • Sent out email about new invoicing process

2023-11-15 (Wed)

  • Email + Matrix + Slack + GitHub catch up
    • Followed up on design thread
    • Reviewed email from Ghislaine to user
    • Followed up on weekly check-in
    • Read through new CRM entries
  • CCI board meeting
  • Followed up with lawyer about name change issues
  • Call with Sean about GitHub workflow

2023-11-14 (Tue)

  • Cancelled Loom account
  • Reviewed Pavish’s pgconf talk proposal
  • Call with Sean re: team workflow & briefly benefits
  • Email + Matrix + Slack + GitHub catch up
    • Discussed vacation policies with Anish
    • Lots of other follow ups and conversation
    • Sorted out SavvyCal billing issue
  • Board meeting prep
    • Followed up with lawyer
    • Created detailed agenda and minutes
      • Shared with other board members
    • Incorporated new updates from lawyer into agenda
  • Weekly meeting prep
    • Cancelled meeting
    • Sent email for async check-in

2023-11-13 (Mon)

  • Call with Adam and Sam to prep for upcoming board meeting
  • Call with Pavish about translation workflow
  • Updated team about new org name, registered domains
  • Reviewed our 2022 Form 990 (org tax form)
  • Email + Matrix + Slack + GitHub catch up
  • Responded to Ghislaine’s two emails re: design work
  • Followed up on new installation request
  • Followed up with SJ re: next call
  • Reviewed team work logs
  • Lots of async back and forth about board meeting prep and upcoming tax deadline

2023-11-10 (Fri)

Out for Veterans Day

  • Attended team event

2023-11-09 (Thu)

  • 1:1 with Brent
  • 1:1 with Adam
  • Decided on name for organization
  • Coordination with Sean and Pavish on next steps for their work
  • Some cleanup of the CCI GitHub account
  • Email + Matrix + Slack + GitHub catch up
    • Various responses + administrative follow ups
    • Reviewed the bidirectional navigation design spec + process questions
    • Follow ups for organizational insurance and fundraising next steps

2023-11-08 (Wed)

  • 6 meetings
    • Team meeting
    • Meeting with Brent, Sean, Anish re: DB connections backend work
    • 2 x meetings with Anish about logistics / feedback
    • External / user research call
    • Meeting with Sean to prep for above call
  • Email + Matrix + Slack + GitHub catch up
    • Various responses + administrative follow ups
  • Logistics for Anish
    • Contract
    • New Matrix account
  • Core team / maintainers verbiage updates
    • Wiki
    • GitHub team
    • Email list

2023-11-07 (Tue)

Partial day, medical stuff

  • Email + Matrix + Slack + GitHub catch up
    • Talked to Brent and Pavish
    • Weighed in on documentation PR
    • Reviewed installation plan
  • External call
  • Follow ups on some administrative stuff
    • Insperity
    • New contract
  • Upgraded work computer OS, some related fixes

2023-11-06 (Mon)

  • Call with Pavish to go over translation workflow
  • 1:1 with Ghislaine
  • A bunch of CRM updates
  • Email + Matrix + Slack + GitHub catch up
    • Various responses
    • Merged stale bot PR
  • Added more detail to weekly meeting agenda items
  • Call with Insperity
  • Some thinking about new org name

2023-11-03 (Fri)

  • Feedback call with Rajat
  • 1:1 with Pavish
  • Short call with Sean to discuss DB connections / homepage
  • Wrote up 2023 activities report for CIT
  • Updated CRM entries for a few different people
  • Email + Matrix + Slack + GitHub catch up
    • Various responses
    • Set up next call with Ian
    • Some follow ups on invoices and admin stuff
    • Various other admin follow ups

2023-11-02 (Thu)

  • Call with Brent re: Freshdesk and installation
  • 1:1 with Adam
    • Mathesar overview, etc.
  • Set up Adam with Matrix
  • Redid 1:1 schedule
  • Set up mathesar.org email aliases for team
  • Set up Transifex accounts for the team
  • Some marketing discussion / comments
  • Email + Matrix + Slack + GitHub catch up
    • Some overdue responses
  • Progress on next steps for Anish
  • Some more offboarding tasks for Dom, Mukesh, Rajat
  • CIT visiting researcher followup

2023-11-01 (Wed)

  • 2 x team meetings
  • Call with Anish
  • Call with Ian re: funding and board
  • Onboarding tasks for Adam
  • Offboarding tasks for Dom, Mukesh, Rajat
    • This took a long time
  • Email + Matrix + Slack catch up

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