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[chadwhitacre]

What are you working on this week and why?

last week

[chadwhitacre]

This week I'm working on the Pivot because I want to land it now that we're over the hump, and the Balanced Shutdown because we have a hard deadline in 17 days.

For the Pivot I'm looking at three things:

• Keeping up with support.
• Bringing back payroll (bring back take-what-you-want gratipay.com#3433).
• Bringing back account closing (bring back account closing gratipay.com#3461).

For the Balanced Shutdown I'm looking at three things:

• Running on Braintree this Thursday (migrate to Braintree gratipay.com#3287).
• Finalizing our partnership with Citizens (Citizens for ACH? gratipay.com#3366).
• Sorting out vaulting (double-store new bank accounts/identity at Balanced and Gratipay gratipay.com#3388) and migration (get PCI certified by Balanced gratipay.com#3379) of bank account and identity data.

This last point is entangled with the Pivot, because if we're not going to get bank account and identity info from Balanced, then it makes sense to ask people to give us that info again when they migrate their tips to subscriptions, since we've already got their attention at that point.

[chadwhitacre]

Today is a holiday here. I'll be working a bit this morning (focusing on support, and documentation for Citizens), then I'll be out the rest of the day. I'm offline working elsewhere tomorrow, then back for full days on Wednesday and Thursday.

[chadwhitacre]

GitHub 1. I took a pass through support and bumped a number of folks down the road a couple days.

[techtonik]

• Getting my research about using LXD for Gratipay into official docs (defaults.env: Remove localhost:8537 from CANONICAL_HOST gratipay.com#3394)
• Got new feedback at Using whereis to locate java binary is wrong webdriverio/selenium-standalone#96 and resumed dealing with our competence debt at jstests fail in Vagrant/VirtualBox gratipay.com#3000 via Update grunt-webdriver 0.4.4 -> 0.5.1 for jstest gratipay.com#3490

[chadwhitacre]

!m @techtonik

I'm working on getting documentation to Citizens (gratipay/gratipay.com#3366) this morning, then I'll be taking another pass through support. I'd like to make progress on payroll and Braintree today, so that we can run with both tomorrow.

[chadwhitacre]

I'm looking at gratipay/gratipay.com#3482 because I want to direct people to apply for teams but we're losing information. :-/

[chadwhitacre]

Took a pass through support. I'm blocking six on gratipay/gratipay.com#3485.

[chadwhitacre]

Okay! Laundry/lunch and then coffeeshop to find @kaguillera. :)

[chadwhitacre]

Gonna land gratipay/gratipay.com#3453 as we have several support requests related to that.

[chadwhitacre]

Alright, gratipay/gratipay.com#3485 and gratipay/gratipay.com#3453 are both done. Back to support ...

I have another ~3.5 hours today (and I'm at the coffee shop, so interruptible). @rohitpaulk What's your availability like in the next ~24 hrs? Any cycles available for gratipay/gratipay.com#3433 and/or gratipay/gratipay.com#3287?

[chadwhitacre]

Per IRL convo, @kaguillera is looking at gratipay/gratipay.com#3479.

[chadwhitacre]

Inbox 1(!), GitHub 0, Support 15.

[rohitpaulk]

I've been busy this week, will be available tomorrow and day after. I'll get gratipay/gratipay.com#3397 started tomorrow so that gratipay/gratipay.com#3450 isn't blocked.

[chadwhitacre]

I'll get gratipay/gratipay.com#3397 started tomorrow so that gratipay/gratipay.com#3450 isn't blocked.

Cool. If we're lucky we can include you and me on Gratipay's payroll tomorrow. :-)

I'll pick up with gratipay/gratipay.com#3473 once I get caught up with support ...

[chadwhitacre]

If we're lucky we can include you and me on Gratipay's payroll tomorrow. :-)

As well as @kaguillera @techtonik and any other team members who are paying attention ...

[chadwhitacre]

Alright! Made it through support. Support 9. Inbox 1, GitHub 0. Will look at gratipay/gratipay.com#3473 tomorrow morning ...

[chadwhitacre]

!m *

[techtonik]

@whit537, are the legal requirements to get on the payroll explained anywhere? I'd like to avoid using "privileged channel" and try to catch the user experience of an ordinary GP visitor.

[chadwhitacre]

Support 15

[chadwhitacre]

Alright, Support 6, close enough. Inbox 1, GitHub 0.

[chadwhitacre]

Turning to gratipay/gratipay.com#3486 ...

[chadwhitacre]

are the legal requirements to get on the payroll explained anywhere?

No, not really.

the user experience of an ordinary GP visitor.

At this point we're trying to get payroll run barely at all once, just for the Gratipay team this week with a couple of us as members, and that if we're lucky. We'll revisit general user experience down the line.

[chadwhitacre]

Wow. Made it onto Braintree! O.o

!m @rohitpaulk

I'm consulting today, will be checking in periodically, hoping to take a final sweep through support this afternoon. Next week: payroll!

[chadwhitacre]

Okay, back for a couple hours. I want to take a pass through support and get an email blast out about Gratipay 2.0 (gratipay/gratipay.com#3419). I also need to communicate something to Citizens about #119.

[chadwhitacre]

I just invested $2,000 into Gratipay, LLC, so that we can meet our $2,500 obligation to Tor Ekeland next week.

[chadwhitacre]

I'm here to work on #119. I think we need to pull off gratipay/gratipay.com#3289 in order to make it through Citizens underwriting.

[chadwhitacre]

You know what? Gratipay 2.0 is actually not that dissimilar from oDesk Upwork.

[chadwhitacre]

Dialed back out of the #119 rabbit-hole, summary of findings at gratipay/gratipay.com#3377 (comment).

🏊

[chadwhitacre]

Happy 3rd Birthday, Gratipay! 💃 🎂 🎈 🎊

[chadwhitacre]

First task today is to update Manage Risk with everything else I learned over the weekend, and deliver that to Citizens.

After that, I intend to:

• write a little blog post about our birthday
• send out a birthday email blast re: Gratipay 2.0
• take a pass through support
• dive in on migrate to new processing infrastructure gratipay.com#3377 (comment) 🏊

[chadwhitacre]

Oh, gosh! It's Monday ... :)

[chadwhitacre]

next week

[chadwhitacre]