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Session 01

People: Honza Martinek, Josef Kocurek, Lukáš Porsche, Matěj Málek

Edits: added Lukáš’s time allocation

Intro and expectations

Expectations

• Lukáš: I still don’t know, what I don’t know: what’s needed, what are the goals? (funding, marketing, sales, evangelization, problem/solution verification?)
• Matěj: what is a digital text? unsure what’s possible in the context of next-book
• Honza: building a healthy and sustainable work env, introing others into a project, needs a lot of idea verification

Roles

• Josef: research, documentation, no coding
• Lukáš: marketing, user testing, self-publishing outreach
• Matěj: presentation layer, finding visual design for a digital book (part of my dissertation)

Environment and rhythm

• All-team meeting every other friday (next: October 11, 9am)
• Time allocation (per week): Honza 24h, Josef 8h, Matěj 8h, Lukáš 5h
• KB on the web (this 😉), set up by Honza
• team communication and planning on Basecamp, set up by Josef
• bi-weekly newsletter (after every all-team meetup)

Three areas

• books (prototyping, publishing — own, agency model)
• platform (design, development, documentation)
• collaboration (networking, partnerships, projects)

Todos

• prep KB (Honza)
• prep Basecamp (Josef)
• decide time allocation (Lukáš)
• next-book pitch generator (Honza + feedback from all)
• prep newsletter (Honza)

Whiteboard