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Notes

Misc Stuff

After-Hours

  • First week of month Thursday 7PM work?

  • Members speak?

Membership

  • Can all project leads help us make a membership list?

First Week Retro

How did it go?

Trends

  • First meeting was ight….lot of members were at career fair

  • 15 new people

  • Looking forward to next week’s meeting

  • Goal is to get things going next week

API/Platform

  • 40 people at API/Platform meeting

  • 25 RSVPs

  • Introduced people to team processes

  • Meeting w/ David on Tuesday

Planner

  • 50 ish people

  • Did walkthrough of product

  • Handful of super enthusiastic people

  • Most people were there for meeting

Jupiter

  • 30 people

  • Talked about what Jupiter has now

  • Not a lot of returning members

  • Somewhat equal distribution of engineering, design, and product

  • 2 people ask “how can I get started”

Design

  • 18 people showed up

  • Got a lot of newbies

  • Worried about hand-holding new designers

  • Won’t know until applications

Engineering

  • 60 people

  • Didn’t get a super good feel of the room on experienced / inexperienced

Product

  • 20 people

  • Good for Friday evening

  • Mix of returning + newbies

  • Lot of graduate students

  • Good enthusiasm

Team Capacity

How many people can each team support?

  • Eng

  • Product

  • Design

What type of people can each division support?

  • How many new

  • How many cracked

How many people can each division head support?

Officers help newbies idea?

Goal is to have a “max capacity” number for people in the org

API/Platform

  • As many as possible

  • Level-based structure

  • 3 returning + Ahad

Trends

  • Want 5-6 people in each division

    • Most team members are coming and going

    • Sees 2-3 people at any given time

  • Product

    • 4 returning people

    • Sharon was thinking 4 people

  • Design

    • 2 returning people

      • People seem enthusiastic but not the most responsive

      • Recurring meeting time might solve the problem

  • Engineering

    • 1 returning person

Jupiter

  • 1 returning engineer & 1 returning designer

  • Have product meeting Friday

  • Can take 5 more engineers

    • 2 engineers currently doing stuff | experienced?

  • Goal is to get inexperienced people working on Jupiter to learn NextJS + up to speed

    • 3 experienced 2 new

Planner

  • 6 returning engineers

    • 3 committed

    • 3 iffy

  • Looking for 3 committed engineers

  • May have space for 1-2 inexperienced people

  • Want 3 total PMs

    • Have 1 PM

    • Want at least 1 experienced PM

  • Want 2 designers

    • 1 experienced

    • 1 not experienced

    • Most work is for improving existing designs

Recruiting Strategy

Questions to answer

  • What type of people are we looking for?

  • How are we going to structure the interest form?

  • Are we rejecting people?

  • How are we matching people onto teams?

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