# 2020-10-21 Leadership Cadence

## Date <a href="#id-2020-10-21leadershipcadence-date" id="id-2020-10-21leadershipcadence-date"></a>

21 Oct 2020

## Participants <a href="#id-2020-10-21leadershipcadence-participants" id="id-2020-10-21leadershipcadence-participants"></a>

* [Zach Goulson](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/5f1f8319ef11df0025869e21?ref=confluence)
* [Josh Lintag](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/5f20c61fc9c094001c5d32ca?ref=confluence)
* [Eddie Brown (Unlicensed)](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/5f2205e570fb250022c01aaa?ref=confluence)
* [Alec Akin (Unlicensed)](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/5f1e64ee2aa25000286fc7fc?ref=confluence)

## Goals <a href="#id-2020-10-21leadershipcadence-goals" id="id-2020-10-21leadershipcadence-goals"></a>

* Come up with a few tasks to focus on for Technical Working Session

## Discussion topics <a href="#id-2020-10-21leadershipcadence-discussiontopics" id="id-2020-10-21leadershipcadence-discussiontopics"></a>

| Item                     | Notes                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
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| Slack Standup            | <ul><li>Doesn’t really get used. Should we turn it off? Change the frequency?</li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Board membership filing  | <ul><li><p>Paperwork around incorporation was handed over to A\&P last week</p><ul><li>Though the incorporation and nonprofit application are serial, it's assumed that A\&P is working on both in parallel</li></ul></li><li><p>We wanted to get minimum number of folks to get simple majority</p><ul><li>As soon as incorporation happens we can adjust the board membership as we see fit</li><li><p>Current positions:</p><ul><li>President - Kristin</li><li>Chair - Eddie</li><li>Treasurer - Alec</li><li>Secretary - Josh</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| Splunk                   | <ul><li><p>Splunk is an incredible initial solution for aggregating the data</p><ul><li>Helps us make informed analysis on the data that we have</li><li>Helps us visualize raw trends</li><li>Provides marketing real estate for the work we’re doing; a lot of the work we’ve been doing so far isn’t particularly “visual”, so this bridges the visual gap</li><li>Minimal constraints around uploading the data for free</li></ul></li><li><p>First Splunk meeting went well. We’ll need to address a few questions around the technical aspects of the partnership</p><ul><li><p>Self hosting or cloud?</p><ul><li><p>What does the payment plan need to look like?</p><ul><li>Cloud storage</li><li>Higher data velocities</li><li>Any computation</li></ul></li><li>Self hosting would be enterprise with a 10 GB limit</li><li>We’re currently using their cloud for free, just a few limitations around how much/often data can be uploaded</li></ul></li><li>Given our needs and in terms of the offerings, what would be best for us?</li><li>Data transformation offerings/advice for incongruent field values</li></ul></li><li>Questions around limitations on users/licenses/credentials</li><li>Next meeting this Friday at 2:30 PM CDT</li><li><p>Goal of one visual product with caption per week?</p><ul><li>It’s incredibly important to show the measure of our work, even in bits and pieces, to the public at large</li></ul></li></ul> |
| Assign newsletter chunks | <p><a href="https://pdap.atlassian.net/browse/REC-7"><https://pdap.atlassian.net/browse/REC-7></a></p><p><a href="https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/REC/pages/38404215/October+Newsletter">Location of blurb in Newsletter outline</a></p><p><em>Did not get a chance to talk about this at length</em></p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| Open-Source CRM?         | <ul><li><p>We wanted to spin up some sort of CRM to help the internal comms team</p><ul><li>We’ll de-prioritize this (but ultimately leave it to the team on what they want to do)</li></ul></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Infrastructure           | <ul><li>Reaching out to Dave but we’ll touch base with Richard and strap down a plan on how to move forward</li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |

## Action items <a href="#id-2020-10-21leadershipcadence-actionitems" id="id-2020-10-21leadershipcadence-actionitems"></a>

* [Zach Goulson](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/5f1f8319ef11df0025869e21?ref=confluence) Check in with [Daniel Melles (Unlicensed)](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/5f1c815b7070d4001b1c4b17?ref=confluence)22 Oct 2020
* Develop more Splunk visualizations/dashboards
* [Zach Goulson](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/5f1f8319ef11df0025869e21?ref=confluence) to shorten Standup 27 Oct 2020

## Decisions <a href="#id-2020-10-21leadershipcadence-decisions" id="id-2020-10-21leadershipcadence-decisions"></a>

* Adjust the weekly slack bot to use a single question to query for topics to talk about for the cadence
* Open-Source CRM not a current priority