<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><img data-original-width="489" data-original-height="412" data-padding-top="0" data-id="MEjfFr2BJaAU0" data-image_url="http://media.giphy.com/media/MEjfFr2BJaAU0/giphy.gif" data-bitly_gif_url="http://gph.is/1cjoqLx" data-tumblr_share_url="http://media.giphy.com/media/MEjfFr2BJaAU0/giphy.gif" data-gif_id="MEjfFr2BJaAU0" id="gif" class="a-gif" src="http://media.giphy.com/media/MEjfFr2BJaAU0/giphy.gif" alt="duajisin animated GIF" style="width: 474px; height: 400px;" data-mce-src="http://media.giphy.com/media/MEjfFr2BJaAU0/giphy.gif" data-mce-style="width: 474px; height: 400px;" width="474" height="400"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span name="x"></span><div>-----<br>Doug Belshaw</div><div>Web Literacy Lead<br>Mozilla Foundation<br></div><div><br></div><div>Current timezone: BST (UTC +1)<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://webmaker.org" data-mce-href="http://webmaker.org">http://webmaker.org</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><a href="http://openbadges.org" data-mce-href="http://openbadges.org">http://openbadges.org</a> <br><a href="http://dougbelshaw.com" data-mce-href="http://dougbelshaw.com">http://dougbelshaw.com</a> <br></div><span name="x"></span><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Matt Thompson" <matt@mozillafoundation.org><br><b>To: </b>mozteach@mozillafoundation.org, "webmaker-dev@mozilla.org" <Webmaker-dev@mozilla.org><br><b>Cc: </b>"David Ascher" <da@mozillafoundation.org>, "hannah@mozillafoundation.org Kane" <hannah@mozillafoundation.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, 27 May, 2014 5:51:02 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Tomorrow's cross-team call: clothing optional <br><div><br></div><div>...oops I meant "<i>attendance</i> optional." </div><div><br></div>now that I have your attention... :) <div><br></div><div>After talking with many of you, I'd like to propose a change to tomorrow's cross-team call.</div><div><b>TLDR: you're busy. you have too many meetings. </b></div><div><br></div><div><b>so: let us give you the gift of one less meeting!</b></div><div>don't feel you need to come tomorrow unless you have something specific you need from the group.</div><div>I'll take good notes and we'll file any new bugs. The work is well-ticketed, you're doing great, less yak more hack. more details below.</div><div><br></div><div>--Matt</div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Your feedback</b></div><div>I checked in with many of you last week. What I'm hearing from you:</div><div><b>* 1) you're busy</b>. this is our busiest time of year as we sprint towards our Maker Party release. </div><div><b>* 2) our work is now well-documented</b>. you've already ticketed and tagged what you want to ship by [May30] and beyond. More to come on this, but:</div><div><b><a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker" target="_blank">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker</a></b><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><b>* 3) you're already in too many meetings. </b>you need more head down time to *get shit done.* </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>So here's what I propose: let's make these Wed cross-team calls ***100% attendance optional.***</b></div><div>In other words: don't feel like you need to come, unless a colleague has specifically requested you. </div><div><b> </b></div><div>If there's something on the agenda that requires your attention, I'll give you a personal heads up by email and pull you in. </div><div>Otherwise, just keep up the great work you're already doing. And let us give you the gift of one less meeting to clutter up your week. :) </div></div><div><br></div><div><b>May 28 agenda</b></div><div><div>The focus tomorrow will be:</div><div><div><b>1) gut check</b>. have we ticketed and assigned the urgent work properly? What's going to bite us in the ass for Maker Party? <br></div><div><b>2) Web Lit badges check-in</b><br></div><div><b>3) Event Guides</b>. hacking together on updated event guides work Michelle is doing. </div></div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>