Chicago Research Report

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

Release field report from Chicago research trip. :earth_americas: :

RACI

Phase: Research / Build / Ship Owner: @LauraReynal Decision: @davidascher Lead design:@cassiemc Lead dev: n/a

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

Target is May 8th for first version of the report. Adding @sabrinang in the issue to follow.

OpenMatt commented 9 years ago

needs design resource for week of May 4

OpenMatt commented 9 years ago

@cassiemc will review

cassiemc commented 9 years ago

Hey @LauraReynal @thisandagain – Earlier this week I thought @sabrinang might have time to help but she is on PTO 4/5 days next week. So please lean on me to help with this, especially after Monday (busy day onboarding Jordan and our new contractor). When do you think the content for this will be ready to go?

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

Hey @cassiemc thanks for the message. I am unsure when the content will be ready for a design review, but it will be probably not be before the end of this heartbeat May8th. Will let you know a couple days in advance when ready for design.

However, there is a bunch of design help needed on some graphics. They would need to happen before the report itself in order to incorporate them. What do you think ? tracking here the design tasks have Sabrina's handle https://github.com/MozillaFoundation/research/issues/47

cassiemc commented 9 years ago

hey @LauraReynal, @thisandagain filled me in on what needed to be done last week and I think this is a good first task for Jordan. Not sure his Github nick yet but @thisandagain is working with him 1:1 in Portland.

thisandagain commented 9 years ago

Great. Thanks @cassiemc

I added @lovegushwa as the assignee for the design tickets that were assigned to Sabrina. @LauraReynal perhaps you and @lovegushwa could connect tomorrow morning to talk through the illustrations and diagrams? It would also be nice to have him join us for the draft walkthrough on Thursday.

OpenMatt commented 9 years ago

@LauraReynal status? [flagged!]

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

Work in progress, moving to next heartbeat.

OpenMatt commented 9 years ago

This is being deprecated -- @LauraReynal will update w. more on timelines

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

This will be tackled after Bangladesh and Whistler.

OpenMatt commented 9 years ago

@LauraReynal: status? I'm going to move this to July 17 -- correct if that's wrong. [flagged!]

cassiemc commented 9 years ago

@LauraReynal is on PTO this week and next so let's bump to the following heartbeat.

thisandagain commented 9 years ago

Update: This took a backseat to the Gates Foundation proposal. Picking up in the next heartbeat.

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

Update: made good progress on copy - still needs some work.

For next heartbeat, could we get help from:

@lovegushwa on design for graphics and the report itself
@thisandagain content review - mid heartbeat
also would like to get a review from @omnignorant if possible
@adamlofting for pulling out a couple of graphics from our particpants data base (when available: files are ready)
@KevZawacki for a copy review (late next heartbeat) on the report + on the blog post (final)

Thoughts ?

KevZawacki commented 9 years ago

I can definitely do copy review/writing.

lovegushwa commented 9 years ago

@LauraReynal I want to help with design / fixing up the template a bit more as well.

cassiemc commented 9 years ago

WFM if @lovegushwa can balance this with the Fundraising work. There is a fundraising workweek this week so his involvement will be minimum at this point. Have updated the RACI above.

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

Update :

90% of the copy is done - Im still editing but the most important sections are written. Needs work for the rest such as user portraits, conclusion and appendixes.
@thisandagain will do a full content review.
Sending to @KevZawacki for copy and language review on monday 10th

Next week: There will be a lot to do and the week will be dedicated to editing frameworks, layout and copy revisions. I'll be working with Jordan but I already started.

We should be good to publish on Wednesday 19th or Thrusday 20th.

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

cc/ @davidascher

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

FYI, design work is tracked here https://github.com/MozillaFoundation/Design/issues/71

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

:mag: @adamlofting Do you think you would have time to convert the spreadsheet into a couple of pie charts ? Or should I do it manually as for the previous reports? Let me know, im happy to remove you from this bug if you have no time.

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

@KevZawacki the document is ready for your copy review from page 1 to 48 now if you would like to start. I can ping you later when the rest of the copy is finished. Let me know if this is okay for you :santa: :-)

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

Update for the universe:

Just finished writing the recommendations, now ready for review. Page 56 to 61 :sparkles:
@anmechung I pinged you inside the document for a check on the library bits, as per our discussion.
Jordan and I are working on the design at the same time -- because these things take time.

Left to do:

Write the personas
Write the appendixes
Further work on the frameworks
Combine my data into pie charts or just number
Make the research map

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

Update: The document has been fully reviewed by Andrew, it's good to go. We've made some good design work with Jordan. I'm meeting with Adam monday. I still have a bunch to do, but I think we can reach our deadline of Wednesday or thrusday the latest. I have started to work on the inDesign document. :racehorse:

@KevZawacki I saw you made some copy edits. Thank you very much. Is the rest of the document good to go, or is there a page I should stop at, when I migrate to inDesign?

KevZawacki commented 9 years ago

Hey @LauraReynal, I'm copyediting pages 20 and onward right now. Will be done before 5 p.m. ET!

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

We have made some cool progress with @adamlofting today. Check out some graphs below :-) the rest will be in the report. level of engagement with the web and computer ownership

web journey os distribution who we talked to

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

Update: I have started to work on the layout in inDesign, but the document needs a full copy review before possible to finish. @KevZawacki has been pulled out because of emergencies with Webmaker Launch so this project is likely to be delayed.

Will update regularly on the progress. Thanks !

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

cc/ @secretrobotron here is the ticket to update if you have time to help on copy edits

cassiemc commented 9 years ago

@LauraReynal I could do some proofreading this afternoon if you can link me to the latest doc? Realize I might've missed my window with you today!

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

Update:

@KevZawacki has finished copy reviewing the whole document. HUGE thanks :bow:
I just finished designing the whole document

Next Step:

@lovegushwa will do a final design review.
Write a blog post and publish,

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

@KevZawacki would you mind proof reading / editing this blog post for publishing the report please? https://etherpad.mozilla.org/blogpostchicago

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

@davidascher @cassiemc @lovegushwa The final document is here, in PDF. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0X05aIHuAbec1htMHplMHpuYk0

I am ready to publish as soon as I have your GO, if you'd like to check it out before we send.

KevZawacki commented 9 years ago

@LauraReynal No problem -- just proofed. Good to go!

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

Thanks @KevZawacki

Here is the latest link for the report https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0X05aIHuAbeR0RZTUx0cERWVGs

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

@cassiemc here is the latest link https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0X05aIHuAbeRlpCM0ZoejVXN0k

cassiemc commented 9 years ago

Great, I'm reviewing now.

davidascher commented 9 years ago

I'm reading it too. First question I have is whether we really want to call it Chicago Report. I understand why we've been using that moniker internally, but I don't think it's a useful title to someone with no context.

I'll come up with some more specific feedback shortly.

Do we have any institutional audiences or partners who expect this in a particular time frame?

cassiemc commented 9 years ago

I had the same thought about the title @davidascher. Also, I think we should deliver digital pdfs as page-by-page rather than as spreads, but realize that might mean rejigging some of the design.

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

I agree with the title. It does not make much sense. Let me know if you have many ideas. We don't have any institutional partner waiting on this.

@cassiemc it has been designed with the idea that it would be read with spreads. For example, full page pictures and quotes are facing relevant text etc. Maybe we can switch to single pages for the next one? Or is it really a blocker for this one? Let me know.

xmatthewx commented 9 years ago

If your spreads in InDesign are one wide page, it will likely be a huge pain to reformat everything. I don't think it's worth it.

If your spreads in InDesign are two pages, you can export it as single pages and then configure the PDF to display spreads by default. Users can override it to view single pages, which can make reading easier, particularly on mobile. (True for Adobe and some mobile readers. Not sure about in-Browser PDFs)

cassiemc commented 9 years ago

I assumed they were 2 pages and could be exported as single but that would take some effort yet to split the designs properly (I could help). If other reports were spreads I'd say don't worry about it and we can fix it next time.

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

They are 2 pages and they are separable, but as you point out it would be a lot of work. Let's think about it for the next ones if okay with you ?

lauradereynal commented 9 years ago

@cassiemc Feel free to use the inDesign file directly, if you want to try stuff or make direct changes https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0X05aIHuAbeRlpCM0ZoejVXN0k

cassiemc commented 9 years ago

ok thanks @LauraReynal !

davidascher commented 9 years ago

Overall, lots of great stuff in here!

Biggest critique I have is that needs a thorough copyediting pass by a native english speaker, paying careful attention to gallicisms. Things like the use of "evolve" and "mitigate" which are used differently in French and English.

It's also quite long, although we can probably just deal with that in a separate, summary document.

I have some typographic nits, but the biggest one is that the light typeface is basically unreadable when printed on a home or low-end office printer.

Some of the quotes are amazing and powerful. I'd like to see them displayed on the Mozilla office screens.

Some random notes:

p. 6 - curly quotes instead of straight quotes p. 6 - remove leading space before "Our approach" p. 10 change "evolve" in second paragraph -- I believe that's a gallicism. Same comment about page 25, 50. p. 13 I don't understand the "flavors of blur" heading. p. 14 titling font seems off-template p. 14 "different between users in emerging/mobile-first markets and developed markets" p. 18 "We then combined the resulting list with our data" -- what data? p. 18 whether skills "operate as bridges" feels like a claim that is worth unpacking somehow. p. 22 remove "In Chicago" in second paragraph. p. 22 -- the typeface in the small subtitles in the pull quotes print too lightly on my fairly high end printer. We should make sure the report is printable by normal printers. p. 34 chicago should be Capitalized p. 40 -- Don't think "mitigated" is the right word. That paragraph is a bit hard to understand. p. 40 -- Not Kick, Kik. p. 40 -- first paragraph in second column is repetitive with second para in first column p. 41 first line needs a rewrite

[david's getting bored with keeping detailed notes at this point]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Laura de Reynal notifications@github.com wrote:

They are 2 pages and they are separable, but as you point out it would be a lot of work. Let's think about it for the next ones if okay with you.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/MozillaFoundation/plan/issues/372#issuecomment-135549502 .

davidascher commented 9 years ago

By the way -- once we've done the style copyedit, I'm going to make it mandatory reading for my entire team and recommended reading for all of MoFo. There's a large number of lessons worth reading, digesting and discussing.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:13 PM David Ascher da@mozillafoundation.org wrote:

Overall, lots of great stuff in here!

Biggest critique I have is that needs a thorough copyediting pass by a native english speaker, paying careful attention to gallicisms. Things like the use of "evolve" and "mitigate" which are used differently in French and English.

It's also quite long, although we can probably just deal with that in a separate, summary document.

I have some typographic nits, but the biggest one is that the light typeface is basically unreadable when printed on a home or low-end office printer.

Some of the quotes are amazing and powerful. I'd like to see them displayed on the Mozilla office screens.

Some random notes:

p. 6 - curly quotes instead of straight quotes p. 6 - remove leading space before "Our approach" p. 10 change "evolve" in second paragraph -- I believe that's a gallicism. Same comment about page 25, 50. p. 13 I don't understand the "flavors of blur" heading. p. 14 titling font seems off-template p. 14 "different between users in emerging/mobile-first markets and developed markets" p. 18 "We then combined the resulting list with our data" -- what data? p. 18 whether skills "operate as bridges" feels like a claim that is worth unpacking somehow. p. 22 remove "In Chicago" in second paragraph. p. 22 -- the typeface in the small subtitles in the pull quotes print too lightly on my fairly high end printer. We should make sure the report is printable by normal printers. p. 34 chicago should be Capitalized p. 40 -- Don't think "mitigated" is the right word. That paragraph is a bit hard to understand. p. 40 -- Not Kick, Kik. p. 40 -- first paragraph in second column is repetitive with second para in first column p. 41 first line needs a rewrite

[david's getting bored with keeping detailed notes at this point]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Laura de Reynal <notifications@github.com

wrote:

They are 2 pages and they are separable, but as you point out it would be a lot of work. Let's think about it for the next ones if okay with you.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/MozillaFoundation/plan/issues/372#issuecomment-135549502 .

chrislarry33 commented 9 years ago

@davidascher I will do same with my team, maybe unpack it in a Socratic vidyo seminar? Itching to read myself but waiting on final copy.

davidascher commented 9 years ago

Yes finding a way to get people engaged in the inquiry would be great.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015, 4:40 PM Chris notifications@github.com wrote:

@davidascher https://github.com/davidascher I will do same with my team, maybe unpack it in a Socratic vidyo seminar? Itching to read myself but waiting on final copy.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/MozillaFoundation/plan/issues/372#issuecomment-135584986 .

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