Australian team meeting Jan 2026

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On Wednesday, January 14th, the Australian team had a rare in-person meeting.

Participants

Review of OFN platform fees

Gen updated the team on the current need of updating the current fee structure to become more viable as organisation and demonstrate a path to sustainability to funders. The current fee structure is taking money from the big hubs as percentage of their sales and that funds the platform for everyone else. A subscription model with a fixed fee would probably serve us better. But the exact structure and pricing are still under discussion and will be discussed with important stakeholders before any decisions are made.

Roadmap planning

Mario took us through the list of planned task to improve the OFN platform for users and provide more value. We estimated the size of the tasks and placed them on the roadmap for this year according to priority and team availability.

Final discussions

We clarified the roles of Mario and Gen, both now being part of the product team. But Mario will intersect with the development team and delivery circle while Gen will be part of the finance circle and keep track of the budgets.

We reviewed how user feedback loops are working. One problem is that we often have several intermediate people between the user and a developer or the product team. Feedback is also supplied from many different levels and perspectives. It makes it difficult to get an unbiased global view of how well the app is working for everyone. The community forum is seen as a good way for us to communicate back to our community. We are aiming to share our roadmap here and update it throughout the year. Feedback will be welcome. In terms of efficiency, the global team is exploring sharing customer support staff across countries/instances.

Code contributions from the community are very varied. Some are low value for us and others are very helpful. We usually reserve tasks on the roadmap for the core team to avoid delays and have accountability but we may experiment with posting certain tasks in the Slack #dev channel.

AI is a hot topic for a while now. Some people say that we reached the tipping point where AI tools are actually increasing productivity significantly. The team is mostly sceptical of the hype and some marketing articles but we want to experiment with these tools to evaluate if they can help us ship features quicker.

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Hi, thanks for this notes. In the Notion doc there is an item “Assess taxonomy and help users self identify properly” that is highly prioritized… and I simply don’t understand what it means. Would anyone give some explanations ?

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Many thanks for the notes, it must have been so great to do this IRL! :hugs: Did you take pictures as well? :slight_smile: :folded_hands:

A few questions/ comments on the list:

  • the webhook for payment notification got released already so you can remove it from the list :tada: :partying_face:

  • I see we start to reintroduce the word “inventory” to its original meaning which is great! Perhaps we need to remind instance managers that this is not the old “OFN inventory” we are talking about :see_no_evil_monkey:

  • speaking under control from @tschumilas but the new OC UX (see #13555 and #13636 here ) is a higher priority than “Add or remove tag with bulk action” for flower farms. However it’s a much bigger work. Is this why it’s not listed: we don’t have the fund to do that work yet?

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Enterprise users signing up often list themselves as primary producer, probably to have products. But that’s often not the best term to describe the business. So in order to know who is a farmer or a hub or something else, we need to review the current terminology and help people to identify their organisation correctly.

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Thanks for this - I completely misinterpreted. I thought it referred to making product taxonomy (product categories) selectable by individual sellers!

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hi all, thank you for the feedback!

  1. webhook for payment notification now flagged as done :clap:
  2. OC UX (#13555 and #13636) was not listed in the various documents I have reviewed recently, apologies if it was not in my radar for the workshop! I have added an item to the timeline with an approximate 2months timeframe, I think it would be a good discussion topic for the roadmap roundtable discussion tomorrow in case we want to bring it in for the first half of the year.

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PS: I’m more than happy to move away from Notion for this, keen to get inputs on what alternative tool we could use, if needed. We might also find that we don’t need one at all :slight_smile: