Define goals and delegate for our major pre-existing commitments in Q1 2023

[choldgraf]

We have a number of major efforts already underway, but both the deliverables on those efforts, and our responsibility to accomplish them, is under-specified. This is an issue to list them all in one place so that we can get a better view of it, and then decide how we'd like to track these efforts moving forward.

Major commitments

New efforts and projects

Here are a few major things that we are committed to (Add a ✅ when we have all major roles delegated and plans + goals created)

• CZI Open Science Cloud: [Project] CZI Open Science Clouds for Latin America and Africa #606
  • Strategic leadership and wrangling (@damianavila)
  • Lead content creation and community workshops (@jmunroe)
  • Hire a new team member to work on content creation and workshops (@jmunroe)
  • Infrastructure for ~15-20 biomedically-focused cloud workshops (@2i2c-org/engineering)
  • Mentoring a cloud engineer from Argentina (@2i2c-org/engineering and probably @damianavila specifically)
• GESIS: GESIS Collaboration - Dynamic image building in a JupyterHub infrastructure#1382
  • Relationship management w/ Arnim and his stakeholders (@jmunroe)
  • Product management-type stuff to decide on UX (@jmunroe)
  • Project management stuff (@damianavila)
  • Engineering to do implementation (@consideRatio and @2i2c-org/engineering)
• Pangeo: https://github.com/2i2c-org/meta/issues/476
  • Strategic leadership and relationship management: @jmunroe
  • Infrastructure improvements including new BinderHubs (@2i2c-org/engineering)
  • Some kind of community guidance and engagement (@jmunroe)
  • Potentially leading strategic efforts to move the project in new directions (@jmunroe)

Enhancements by focus area

We don't have any clear definitions yet, the area leads need to define this below. They should cover significant / strategic improvements in these areas. These were the strategic objectives from last quarter, they are likely too much and we need to sharpen/reduce, but could provide inspiration.

• Engineering/product priorities: Product and engineering agree on major goals for Q1 2023 #615
• Partnerships and community priorities: Community and partnerships agree on major goals for Q1 2023 #616

Operational commitments

• Ongoing cloud operations (@2i2c-org/engineering)
• Ongoing community support tickets (@2i2c-org/engineering and @2i2c-org/partnerships-and-community-guidance)
• Ongoing invoicing (@colliand)
• Ongoing leads generation and new partnerships (@colliand)

Our capacity

Dedicated capacity

• 2-3 engineers (@consideRatio , @GeorgianaElena , and future hire engineer)
• Engineering management and project manager (@damianavila )
• Community and Partnerships lead (@jmunroe )
• Partnerships Lead (@colliand)
• Executive assistant @ 20 hrs/month (@Camille-Gonzalez-VA)

Non-dedicated capacity

• @yuvipanda (paid via Berkeley grants, but some alignment w/ 2i2c team goals)

Team members without capacity

• @sgibson91 is focusing on JupyterHub for ~3 months (https://github.com/2i2c-org/meta/issues/439)
• @choldgraf is on Paternity leave from ~February -> April. (https://github.com/2i2c-org/meta/issues/399)

[choldgraf]

I'll take this on since I've already written it up elsewhere and just need to adapt it here. However I think it'll need input from others if there is somethin I missed.

[choldgraf]

I've updated the top comment with what I think are our major commitments and our current capacity. The one missing piece is "enhancements by focus area". I would like the area leads to answer that question in these two related issues:

• Product and engineering agree on major goals for Q1 2023 #615
• Community and partnerships agree on major goals for Q1 2023 #616

I also tried to list who I think is taking point for each of the areas above, and added ??? for the ones where we need to add somebody.

[choldgraf]

@jmunroe agreed to take the point on the Pangeo collaboration, so I think that we have our major project efforts figured out now. I've updated the top comment accordingly.

I think the last thing to finish up is just confirming the priorities for engineering+product / community+partnerships

[choldgraf]

I'm going to close this one, as I am now looping back in to ED duties, though will likely to do gradually. We have point people described for each of the major projects above and I think there's nothing more actionable here.