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[Stephanie Gerson <sgerson@stanfordalumni.org>]

Sounds good.

I'll create .rtf docs for representation purposes.  And if we need 
something more sophisticated, I'll use something else.  I was actually 
going to learn MS Project - would everyone be able to read MS Project 
docs I send out?  (Or can I save them as .pdf files?)

And Johns, can you please set up the issue tracker so we can use it for 
tracking tasks (and teach us how to use it)?  That would be very helpful.

Please let me know,
*Stephanie


------ Original Message ------
Received: 11:17 PM PST, 02/14/2005
From: John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>
To: PCPLANTDB <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] Project plan feedback

Aloha,

> Next question - which may obviate my previous question - is this 
> intended to be a high-level plan/overview for the sake of Threshold 
> Foundation, or is this intended to be our actual working project plan 
> for our use in guiding the project?
> I AM ACTUALLY USING THIS AS A TEMPLATE FOR BOTH DOCS - ONE FOR 
THRESHOLD AND
> ONE FOR US.

I see...I think more detail would be good for our side of this.  I don't 
know what level of detail Threshold has asked for.

> If the latter, I think a timeline based spreadsheet sort of layout 
would 
> be more appropriate for our uses within the project - and easier to 
> modify in terms of tracking what actually gets done when, what comes 
> before/after/during what, adding details or sub-tasks, and so on.
> FINE.  DIDN'T YOU MENTION AT ONE POINT THAT WE COULD USE AN ISSUE 
TRACKER FOR
> THIS PROCESS?  OTHERWISE, WHAT SOFTWARE WOULD YOU RECOMMEND?  MS EXCEL?

Issue tracker can be used to create and track specific tasks assigned to 
specific people - good for that, just like creating and tracking a bug, 
basically.
Not useable for creating a "document" of some type that will show 
timeline and people and tasks all together at various levels of detail.

A spreadsheet can usually do 'good enough' for creating timeline-based 
project plans.  One or both of OpenOffice Calc and MS Excel are probably 
available to everyone here, yes?
For the sake of those using Excel we'd have to use the excel file 
format, since Excel is not sophisticated enough to read/write the 
OpenOffice XML-based open-source file format.
Or everyone could use OpenOffice (it's free and available for 
Windows...and for Mac OSX, though not quite native yet it appears...).

There are products specifically for project planning but I don't know 
what's available open-source and don't support buying commercial ones. 
Probably more than we need anyhow.

cheers,
John S.


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