Startup Weekend Atlanta

Laura says, “how can it be 10:00 already? I just woke up.” But 10:00 it is — the first 7-minute meeting of the day.

Development (Jason): We’re planning a noon alpha release; 95% of the way there. We have users already: Paul blogged about it, and even without a link, 3 people actually signed up. The signup wasn’t completely working, so we had to take it back down. People started appearing in the database, when some of us didn’t even know it was up.

Even basic HTML experience would be handy to help us get some pages up. We’re setting up a BaseCamp page for bug reporting.

Product Dev/UX: (Alan) Here’s the process for today: we’re trying to keep the developers isolated so that they can crank.

We’ve set up 4 sections: home page (public interface); blogger admin; widget function; reader admin (where people can see results of votes). We have a product/project manager for each one: Michael: home page; Alan (blogger and reader admin); Jeff Heaney (widget); everyone needs to route everything through these guys.

We need a QA person: couple of people jump in to do that for 12:00 meeting.

Creative Team: becomes a team of 1 at 3:00, when everyone else goes back to North Carolina. So everything needs to be done by then, obviously. Design is in base camp as PSD.

Marketing: We will have copy in the next couple of hours.  We’re working on the press release — nobody else keep working on it.