Arbor Sync 2020-10-29
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## Anniversary!
Our first online sync meeting was in Mumble on October 24th, 2019!
You can checkout the meeting notes [here](https://pad.nixnet.services/fZgsAvYbRDinQj7gp9O5sQ#).
## Updates
- Elizabeth (@elizabUX)
- New design thoughts
- Jack (@Astartes)
- gio
- continued work on proper overlay and modal dialogue support
- materials
- bugfixes and new features for text input widget in the works
- Chris (@whereswaldon)
- gio
- simplified API for drawing filled shapes (working through bugs)
- working on enabling keypress processing while a text editor has focus to allow pasting with ctrl+v and other goodies
- attempting to enable rich keyboard input on Android (iOS will come later)
- sprig
- some small bugfixes and simplifications
## Finances
- Monthly Income: ~$5/mo
- $1/mo github sponsors of @whereswaldon
- ~$4/mo ($1/wk) liberapay sponsors of @whereswaldon
- Monthly Expenses: $15.83
- $5/mo digitalocean hosting of aspen.arbor.chat
- $2.50/mo arbor.chat domain ($30/yr divided by 12)
- $8.33/mo Apple Developer Program membership ($100/yr divided by 12)
## Roadmap
First, what are your top-of-mind feature requests (we'll add them below).
Second, what are the relative priorities of (we'll vote):
- mobile rich keyboard support (autocorrect, swype)
- mobile gestures to reply/filter
- view of who is online (and has been recently)
- history search
- summary view of recent conversations
- support for multiple communities (managing subscriptions to each)
- settings for which commmunities you subscribe to
- separated chat views per community
## Circling Back to last year
Last year we answered these questions:
- What makes this project interesting/good in your opinion?
- Who are we as a project? What do we want to be? What are our values?
- provide open communication for **everyone**
- growth mindset
What are our answers now?
## Discussion/Questions
- Have an indicator for total number of people who are online.
- Hitting android "back" button from chat view takes you back to server address selection.
- Hint text in settings isn't clearly associated with the right switch
- Thoughts on including financial updates here?
- @whereswaldon tried to gather his top-of-mind items for the roadmap planning, but that may have missed some important stuff. How can we do a better job prioritizing without spending tons of time on it each week?