DAPSI call deadline 20/01/2021

Mail received today on the diversity topic:

Thank you for your email. The first technical evaluation will take place on Month 5 (end of September). If I understood correctly, you want me to add another deliverable to your list titled “Ongoing effort to improve diversity, M1-M9”. I will add it to your list. You will soon receive a table regarding the KPIs. But please remember that we are NOT defining project-specific KPIs, but rather we are designing a big table that incorporates all deliverables from all teams and includes high-level categories and their corresponding KPIs.

Please feel free to directly contact me in case you have any questions.

To which I replied:

Thank you for adding this deliverable to the fedeproxy list. I did not realize the KPI were global to all projects, thanks for clarifying this important aspect. What really matters is that fedeproxy commitment to diversity is now an integral part of the project.

Mail received today:

Dear participants,

Thanks a lot for your attendance in our last session. AS promised

:fire: Please find attached content covered in session 2
:fire: Your Homework/Pre Work is to just complete the LEAN CANVAS part (nothing else) (Deconstruct your business Excel shared previously and attached here) and come to session 3. No submissions needed this week.
:fire: Thanks to those who provided feedback last session.
:fire: See you for session 3 on Tuesday 8th June 2021 at 10am-12pm Paris time Invite below

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Reply sent today:

Hi,

Thanks for sending the canvas. We will not be able to fill it because the fedeproxy project does not include a business part, it is an experiment with no foreseeable business development.

Sincerely

Reply received today:

There is nothing about business in there. You’re building something that will have users yes? In which case all fields except revenue will be applicable. For revenue you decide if grants etc are applicable. If not, then some one will and somehow you’ll need to keep things going

Reply sent today:

Hi,

Fedeproxy is all about building something that is user centric, reason why the project started with extensive User Research. It is by engaging in this activity that we get to understand what users really need. The outcome of this User Research deliverable is due at M3 and is the cornerstone that will allow us to articulate the product and the online services that would fit in the “Gain Creators”, “Gains”, “Pains” and “Pains Relievers”. Although I’m sure other projects already have a deep understanding of their current and future user base, it is not the case of the fedeproxy project at the moment.

Fedeproxy is an experiment and in the context of this project there is no requirement to keep things going. Of course it would be nice to keep things going, but working on that specific aspect is outside of the scope of the project at this point in time. A choice had to be made and given the resources provided by the grant, the deliverables were designed to produce different outcomes. I invite you to read the application if you would like details on that matter.

You claim there is nothing about business in the canvas but I respectfully object that items like “CUSTOMER SEGMENT”, “Target customer”, “Path to customers” and more are exclusively business related. Unless someone comes up with the notion of a customer unrelated to business.

Sincerely

Answer received today:

As mentioned previously in session 1 and 2, customers and users are interchangeable in this context. I’d be happy even if you did this for users.
It’s up to you to decide what you’d like to do and not.

I won’t reply because I get the feeling we’re not communicating.

I replied because it is required by the organization providing the grant:

Hi,

Here is the canvas filled with the fedeproxy information we have at this time and following your guidance on the matter.

Sincerely

Deconstruct Your business-fedeproxy.xlsx (26.7 KB)

Are you sure to send back the file was mandatory?

Yes. fedeproxy grading depends on participation (10%). Not sending the file back would be not participating. There is however no grading for these activities: it’s black and white.

During the webinar, another attendee asked if the excel file should be sent back, the presenter answered that:

  1. this file should not be sent back;
  2. only fulfilling the google form after the webinar was required.
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Yesterday, I followed the [DAPSI] Value Proposition Training meeting.
Some notes:

  • This videoconference required a google account.
  • There wasn’t an attendee list.
  • The terms customer and user are interchangeable.
  • The slides of the presentation will be sent later.
  • One excel file needs to be fulfilled before the next meeting.
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Mail received today:

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Mail received today:

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Agenda for the 1on1 mentoring scheduled Wednesday June 16th, 2021:

Context

· See past record below

Agenda proposal

· Feedback on interviews made : Loïc and Pierre-Louis

· Expose the plan of solution’s development for MVP and further possible versions : Loïc and Pierre-Louis

· Clarify the costs’ parameters for a MVP solution in operation and especially the volume impact

· Conclusion

Actions, next steps

· According to conclusion

Record
Minutes of 26-05-2021 meeting

  • FedeProxy aims first at allowing interactions of subscribers of forge’s services with non-subscribers (those later ones may want to interact with developers of specific forge services without being users of those services).
  • A second FedeProxy may come later, allowing subscribers of a forge service to move own data to another forge service (but this second function have to be proved relevant as developers (from entreprises or independent ones) do not seem to really needing that portability facility).
  • FedeProxy has made 10 (1-hour long) interviews of users of forge services and plan to analyse them in June and July.
  • It is unclear what part of potential users would be keen to pay for the FedeProxy service, but the costs of operation are rather low (a simple server would operate the identity translation between the person’s and that in the targeted forge). Various possible business model could be foreseen.
  • FedeProxy aims at operating a PoC involving some users to validate the interest, seize the potential market, clarify the usage and the possible business models.

Actions, next steps

  • Analyse the interviews made, identify the top priority pains and needs : FedeProxy/Loïc, Pierre-Louis
  • Next meetings : June 16th and July 7th, 11:00 to 12:00am : Jean-Paul to send corresponding invitations.

Initial invitation
Context

  • Dapsi program propose a coaching session series

Agenda

  • Pitch of the project, at the point where it is now and its perspectives : Loïc
  • Review of the main KPIs for the rest of the year
  • Review of the plan to achieve the targets
  • Review of the means available and needed, the ways to obtain and use them
  • Review of the main challenges for the weeks ahead
  • Open discussion
  • Conclusion and set up the next recurrent time slots for the months to come

Expected outcomes

  • Clear view of the project, its goals, difficulties and solutions.

Received yesterday:

Dear all,

NGIatlantic.eu and US NSF are co-organising a workshop on the Open call 4 topics and initial discussions about open call 5 on 18 June 2021 (1400 CEST – 1800 CEST) – information and registration available at https://ngiatlantic.eu/events/ngiatlanticeu-nsf-eu-us-networking-workshop-open-call-4

This workshop will present some nice opportunities for you to take your results forward to team up with US partners to carry out experiments with US partners via the NGIatlantic.eu project’s open calls.

The topics for Open call 4, which opens 15 June with a closure on 15 Sept. are introduced in the workshop agenda and at https://ngiatlantic.eu/ngiatlanticeu-4th-open-call, so it would be especially of interest to projects coming from ESSIF-LAB**, DAPSI**, NGI Pointer, FED4FIRE+, and others also. So please have a loo. You will also have an opportunity to make a pitch during the event.

Best Regards,

Received yesterday:

Dear All,

A short email to let you know about an event of relevance!

The Horizon 2020 HORIZON CLOUD project is organising a Community Event on Open Source Initiatives for Cloud Computing. During this event, the three Open Source Cloud Initiatives Eclipse Foundation, OpenNebula, and Sovereign Cloud Stack will present their work and engage with European Cloud Community.

The event is part of a series of Technical Community Events for the European Cloud Community. Aim of the event series is to foster synergies and collaboration between European Cloud Projects.

Register now HERE and get your token to participate to the event!

Kind Regards,

Dear participants,

Thanks a lot for your attendance in our last session. As promised

:fire: Attached Week 3 workshop slides

:fire: Please provide feedback here

:fire: Your homework is to complete the Lean Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas, from the excel attached or separately (if you have done it separately that is fine too). Each project should email it directly to me at [redacted] in one email. I will then evaluate them. Please send by 21st June and if you would like some very specific feedback, specify it in your email.

  • There is no right or wrong, and there is just your own learning that is seen here.

:fire: Next session invite for June 23rd at 10am

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Minutes of today’s conference call with the mentor:

Minutes of June 16th meeting

· Early results of the user research : users claims to be able to :

  1. connect their bug reports with other forges

  2. get notifications from other forges traced back to their original bug reports.

è FedeProxy thus becomes more than a simple SSO manager. It’s an issue federator tool

· The development plan is about June and July dedicated to build solution to be able to open and test a MVP in August FedeProxy is hosted on one forge and will be replicated on other ones.

· Discussion on plan to start presenting FedeProxy to friendly forges and challenger-forges, with the scope that they add it to their list of services.

· Proposal to build a presentation slide deck and a draft business model case, based on reasonable hypothesis, showing on loss side the possible traffic and hosting costs for the forge, and on the benefits side the time developers could hope to save on average on their development projects, thanks to FedeProxy linking issues throughout various forges.

· Proposal to think about KPIs and related counters in FedeProxy code, based on the business case thoughts.

Mail sent to the mentor today:

Hi [redacted],

It was a pleasure discussing with you today. Your perspective is precious to us because we mostly have developer’s background. I looked over the project milestones[0] and that reminded me we’re committed to reach out to forge makers as a first step. And then to forge users (admin & devs) later. It would be great to discuss with you the strategies to best communicate with the forge makers (i.e. GitLab & Gitea) during our next meeting. Also, I’m happy to say that the user research project was completed today[1] and we can consider this milestone (due M4) complete. Last but not least, the core of our work for the next two months will be development. I realize this is not in your comfort zone and we can keep the update on that part brief, unless you’re curious about it, of course :wink: With this in mind, would you agree to the following agenda:

  • Communication strategy to approach the forge makers (i.e. GitLab & Gitea)
  • Updates on the software development

And we keep these items for the meeting we’ll have after, once the MVP is complete:

  • Review of possible draft business case to argument FedeProxy benefits for Forge and developers community
  • Discussion on plan to convince the forge providers and users

What do you think ?

Cheers

[0] https://forum.fedeproxy.eu/uploads/short-url/67QsDhlh47dpvuJxZf4hAsffZF9.pdf
[1] https://lab.fedeproxy.eu/fedeproxy/ux/-/wikis/2021-06-user-research-report

Mail received from the mentor today:

Hello Loïc and thanks for your feedback and proposal.

I agree with putting communication strategy in the agenda for July meeting.

I would however keep the item business case as I feel it would be a strong argument fuelling the communication towards the Forge providers.

The business case should be kept simple :

  1.  Hypothesis on the average numbers of bugs reports per lines of code per year (or month if more appropriate)
    
  2.  Hypothesis on the average code size expressed in number of lines
    
  3.  Hypothesis on the average number of programs maintained and in development per developer
    
  4.  Hypothesis on the average time currently spent without Fedeproxy to report bugs and follow up bugs solving up to trace back to what issue generated it.
    
  5.  Hypothesis on the average time which could be spent with Fedeproxy in place to have the same bug tracing back and forth
    
  6.  Hypothesis on the number of developers for each Forge
    

Calculation step A : hypothesis 1 x hypothesis 2 gives the number of bug reports per program

Calculation step B : That step A result x hypothesis 3 gives the number of bug reports per developer

Calculation step C : That step B result x hypothesis 4 gives the average time currently spent by a typical average developer per year without FedeProxy (if hypothesis period is month, then x 12 months)

Calculation step D : That step B result x hypothesis 5 gives the average time currently spent by a typical average developer per year with FedeProxy (same as above for periodicity)

Calculation step E : Step D result – step C result gives the average time saved by a typical average developer per year

Calculation step F : Step E x 50 % as only part of the developers may use FedeProxy (of course ideally we would there make hypothesis on ramp-up rate over several years, but let’s keep it simple at this stage).

Calculation step G : Step F x hypothesis 6 gives the time saved by the community of developers of each Forge

There is a bias as each developer may be part of several Forges and adding time saved of each Forge for the same developer could be refined, but let’s keep simple the calculation as this stage.

Note : if that ease the thought, hypothesis may result from ranges having each each its hypoithesis level, and each range being allocated a % share to rebuilt an global average

My 2 cents,