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Arbor Sync 2021-05-13 === ## Preliminaries - Arbor has been going for three years (and some change), and we have raised about $1,000 over the last 6 months! ## Updates - Jack - Orchard patches submitted and under review - Found and fixed nasty cross-platform test problems with temporary directory reuse - Andrew - Completed our first bounty by writing specs for the metadata we use! - Chris - Sprig - fixed bug introduced by gio version change that broke spacebar filtering - Ran some user interviews: - Imagine that for some reason, your company has changed chat platforms. You need to get the attention of a co-worker named Alice. You have a question for her, but the answer can wait until after you get back from lunch. What do you do: - <details><summary>mockup</summary><img src=https://i.imgur.com/BVJ8lpy.jpg/></details> - If the user indicated that they would type @Alice, they would be presented with the following popup: - <details><summary>mockup</summary><img src=https://i.imgur.com/gNJV6bg.jpg/></details> - If they used ~Alice, that would be the end of it, but that doesn't represent their intentions very well. If they used !Alice, a second dialog would pop up: - <details><summary>mockup</summary><img src=https://i.imgur.com/0uINorc.jpg/></details> - I tell them that their `@` was rewritten to `!` or whichever option they chose. - I then pose a different scenario: You're about to leave for lunch (in the before time when office lunches existed), and you want to ask if Alice is coming with your group. What do you type? - Walk them through whichever dialoges should trigger based on their choices. - Feedback (number of 'x'es indicates the number of users who gave the feedback) - [x] [x] [x] Users would be more comfortable with the second dialog if it asked for concrete units of time, rather than "soon" or "whenever" - [x] [x] [ ] I caught that the dialog was teaching me notation I could use later on - [x] [x] [ ] Not obvious that the checkbox on first dialog will rewrite from then on - [x] [x] [ ] I would use DMs for the specific things in this scenario if they were available - [x] [ ] [ ] @mentioning people is percieved as aggressive, like "putting someone on blast" in public. (this feedback was from a female user tester, and she said that she thinks this is a female perspective) - [x] [ ] [ ] Explore alternative text notations, ! is a negation operator - [x] [ ] [ ] Should @@ => !! and @@@ => !!! - Established our opencollective and transferred our balance into it - forest - minor refactors for clarity - arbor.chat website - updated our meeting schedule to be accurate (part of it said every other week, and part said weekly). - gio - implemented tooltip widgets, not quite happy with the API yet ## Finance You can view Arbor's balance and transaction history live on our open collective: https://opencollective.com/arbor-chat We need to find a budgeting solution. I'm open to ideas on this. Spreadsheet? Ledger? I also need at least one person who is willing to help with accounting stuff. I'd prefer that they be involved in the project for at least a year. ``` $ hledger balance Checking:Budgeted:Chris:Arbor -f ~/Dropbox/Budget/budget.txt 456.11 Checking:Budgeted:Chris:Arbor:Available 200.00 Checking:Budgeted:Chris:Arbor:Coffees 240.00 Checking:Budgeted:Chris:Arbor:Infrastructure 52.29 Checking:Budgeted:Chris:Arbor:LiberapayFuture -------------------- 948.40 ``` I have transferred Arbor's balance into OpenCollective. I over-paid to cover the transaction fees myself, which is why the transaction is $977.03. Here is a record of every transaction during the time I held our funds in my account: <details> <summary>all transactions</summary> <pre> Transactions in Checking:Budgeted:Chris:Arbor and subaccounts: 2020-08-24 GitHub Sponsors In:GitHub Sponsors 1.45 1.45 2020-09-22 GitHub Sponsors In:GitHub Sponsors 1.00 2.45 2020-10-22 GitHub Sponsors GitHub Spo ***********P6N8 In:GitHub Sponsors 1.00 3.45 2020-11-02 STRIPE TRANSFER ***********Q9G7 In:Liberapay 75.14 78.59 2020-11-23 GitHub Sponsors GitHub Spo ***********X7O5 In:GitHub Sponsors 2.00 80.59 2020-12-05 DigitalOcean Hosting Ch:Bu:Chris -5.00 75.59 2020-12-15 STRIPE TRANSFER ***********F3X1 In:Liberapay 4.55 80.14 2020-12-18 STRIPE TRANSFER ***********S0B6 In:Liberapay 4.55 84.69 2020-12-22 GitHub Sponsors GitHub Spo ***********C4Q5 In:GitHub Sponsors 52.00 136.69 2021-01-06 DigitalOcean Hosting Ch:Bu:Chris -5.00 131.69 2021-01-06 Personal Arbor Contribution Ch:Bu:Chris 10.00 141.69 2021-01-11 Stripe In:Liberapay 4.55 146.24 2021-01-22 GitHub Sponsors In:GitHub Sponsors 62.00 208.24 2021-02-01 DigitalOcean Hosting Ch:Bu:Chris -5.00 203.24 2021-02-17 Personal Arbor Contribution Ch:Bu:Chris 10.00 213.24 2021-02-17 Repay chris for arbor domain Ch:Bu:Chris -30.06 183.18 2021-02-22 GitHub Sponsors In:GitHub Sponsors 162.17 345.35 2021-02-26 Stripe In:Liberapay 4.55 349.90 2021-02-28 DigitalOcean hosting for arbor Ch:Bu:Chris -5.00 344.90 2021-03-22 GitHub Sponsors In:GitHub Sponsors 332.00 676.90 2021-04-01 Personal Arbor Contribution (March & April) Ch:Bu:Pr:Chris 20.00 696.90 2021-04-05 Stripe In:Liberapay 4.55 701.45 2021-04-21 GitHub Sponsors GitHub Spo ***********H3Y9 In:GitHub Sponsors 232.00 933.45 2021-04-22 STRIPE TRANSFER ***********U0T4 In:Liberapay 24.95 958.40 2021-05-04 Pay Chris Back for 2 months DigitalOcean Ch:Bu:Chris -10.00 948.40 </pre> </details> ## Discussion - OpenCollective is the most efficient way to support Arbor. Other platforms essentially mean we pay transaction fees twice. - Try doing our accounting with a cron job that reconciles the opencollective api to a ledger file