@Rachel I understand your point but I stand from another perspective, as I was saying I see more my income as a basic income allowing me to contribute full time and I do my best to be productive as much as I can all the time and we discuss about priorities so I don’t decide alone what I work on but I do use my time the most efficiently possible on things adding value to the project… we had some conversations in Drôme about that… So I’m not tracking my time with another tool, I’m just not tracking my time.
I understand the value it can have theoretically (to be able to transfer task, know what we spend time on to see if the value it gives worth it, etc.) but emotionally it brings about some other feelings, that Matt shared for instance, like “spending a whole day checking my mails can I count that time ? Is it productive time ?”, etc. My personal answer is trust that we do the best of our time. It’s maybe more philosophical… If the community decide every contributor on any task concerning the OFN should track his/her time I guess I will consent to it and do my best… I don’t want to block that process if you all feel it is the way to go.
But I really would like to have some deeper conversation in some next global gathering on this. You know, between the industrial / optimized models where we start to track time to optimize everything we do to cut cost, separation of work, specialization of work, etc. Vs the “handcraft man” spirit, being fully into what he is doing without even being conscious of the time that pass…
Sorry to bring that conversation to another space… feel free to ignore what I’m saying, and move forward in the operational aspect of it.
@Rachel raised a point you didn’t answer @sauloperez about do we need a global Toggl or just personal Toogls and aggregate reports somewhere ? If we added to a global Toggl all the non-tech stuff that will start to cost a lot… I have no opinion but maybe worth investigating.