S104 Grooming!

Recording link:

https://ubc.zoom.us/rec/share/NaPT4LXA3METS8Kl1-Pn4eIJWdG-66hZ0Z8y2X2Ap-wJMJX4ZLxNJ_aKYNR1CQKL.nqZkpRFnp6Iqb7yA

Passcode: G9#9x2tY

Agenda

• Quick clarification requested from devs: what is it proposed we are releasing in January?

• LiteFarm user guide (@David Trapp)

• Plans for pivoting to pivot (what is next epic?)– meeting with appropriate team (@Duncan Brain)

• Sensors: Devs would like to discuss sensor-array configuration on the map with @Loic Sans

• (If needed) harvest / crop plan terminology

Discussion points

• January release

  • LF-3830 is NOT GOING TO BE RELEASED (wage data won’t be migrated)

  • Harvest plan terminology is going back to evaluation

  • Releasing consent?

    • @David Trapp in favour of releasing the consent fixes on their own. Data policy is extremely important to have correct. Time requirement is not much from the dev side.

    • Should check with @Divya Chayanam when she returns

    • Proposed release date: next week – Wednesday January 29th

• LiteFarm user guide

  • David walking through the process by which the videos and script have been generated

  • Anto: what’s the strategy for keeping this up to date?

    • Both screen recordings and script should be easy to update (compared to, e.g. the original YouTube videos)

  • Joyce: if the need to request human translation could be omitted, the process of update would be a lot easier

    • The possibility of AI translating or reading the script has been considered and can be pursued

  • Loïc: where will it be hosted? Wix is not the best for this

    • There should be services that specifically provide documentation sites, with good support for searching and translation functionality

  • Where should the link to the guide reside?

    • The YouTube tutorials should be taken down and the link replaced (and the videos removed) if they are not considered up-to-date

  • Anto: what about User Pilot (or a free alternative) that walks the user through the actual app in an onboarding flow

    • David: this is the actual dream – but this becomes a dev/design project at that point compared to a standalone user guide which is on the support team’s side

    • Loïc: This user onboarding is a one-time thing, so can’t replace a proper support guide

• Duncan: forward looking to the next epic. With the revamped scope sensors is going to be a quick module from the dev side. Are we in touch with a manufacturer already?

  • Loïc: no, we don’t even have the name of the manufacturer. We have gotten in touch with Farming Smarter but in order to avoid a repeat of the sensor situation, we need to talk to the tech team of a manufacturer ASAP

  • Anto: since it’s relating to the grant, Farming Smarter should know who these manufacturers are

  • There are 4 farms per year for 3 years in this grant. There COULD be as many as 4 manufacturers per year involved! (Worst case scenario)

  • Farming Smarter has given us general guidelines about how the pivots behave and how the irrigation subscription is communicated to the pivots (manually via USB transfer of the file; pivots should be considered as low-tech) – these points will all have to be checked though

  • Tentatively speaking we have some early assumptions about what e.g. the add flow looks like but these have to be checked as well – whole team consensus that we don’t want to repeat what happened with sensors

    • The constraints we encounted were not coming from necessarily the user experience, nor the technology, but what the partners were assuming; it is a partner communication issue

  • Loïc: We need less second hand discussion and getting all parties in the same room (Joyce: including Ensemble would be my preference when it comes to talking to the manufacturers, if we even have those conversations -- I don’t think the pivot manufacturers will be meeting with us if they aren’t grant partners)

  • Anto: the .vri file being downloaded and given to the pivot is enough for the sake of the grant (this needs to be verified though); there might not be any communication here at all

    • Duncan: We need to confirm if we are integrating with a pivot API at all – otherwise it’s manual entry into LiteFarm and a totally different situation

  • Action items moving into pivots

    • @Loic Sans to get the actual manufacturers from Farming Smarter

    • Confirm with @Divya Chayanam the scope of the grant and whether talking to the pivot is part of the requirements or not. (Farming Smarter should know this as well) – need to confirm the end of the flow @Anto Sgarlatta (in shared channel) and whether the .vri file is the end of our responsibility

    • ALSO need confirmation of the beginning of the flow (which requires the names of manufacturers) to know if they have read APIs (i.e. if it is a Ensemble situation or not when it comes to importing data about pivots in the app)

  • Dev and Design discussed array and sensor icons on the map – points have been added to Figma

TO DO

(Just noticed this table!)