Overview

• Preliminaries.
  • Admin.
  • Upcoming Work.
  • Questions.
• Prep time.
• Quick presentations.
• Work time.

Preliminaries

Admin

• It may be a stressful week. Take care of yourselves!

Questions

Prep time

• What are your goals for this iteration?
• What progress have you made toward those goals?
• How are you spending the rest of this iteration?
• What help do you need?

Presentations

Resource Portal

Goals

• Fixing elastic search
• Tagging (without spray paint)
• Validate admin user code
• Uniqueness of tags
• Detailed info page on "what we store about you"

Progress

• Elastic search done.
• 2 points done on tagging
• Info page is done.
• Admin user code branch is rebased, so ready for testing
• Some progress on uniqueness of tags.

Expected

• Finishing goals

Obstacles

• Sam asking too many questions.

Notes

• Ian was good at saying "Do it this way, not that."
• And he's visiting in a month or so.

Phone Notification

Goals

• New priority addition: New user, new user story. Old user story: Enter info on Web site. Click send. Everyone gets messages. New user story: Text to certain number. Everyone gets messages.
• More than one parent.

Progress

• Writing stories. As an us thing, I want to be able to send a message to a number and have it sent to another number.
• Some Twilio research. Know it's possible, but need to figure out how.
• Got Twilio account info from Sam.
• Mapped out tables.

Expected

• Contact community partners.
• Contact mentors.
• Do more research.
• Maybe implement the tables.

Obstacles

• Twilio. Getting help from mentors.

Notes

• Mentors are willing to help. At least two have experience with Twilio.

GAM

Planned

• Two groups.
• One group doing testing.
• One group doing user interface.

Progress

• Has been looking at how to upload and download files.
  • Can upload and download on c9, but not on Heroku
• Read through RSpec documentation. Decided to use RSpec unit tests.

Goals

• Continue on RSpec. Play with Tutorials. (Don't want to mess stuff up yet.)
• Get applications uploaded so that we can test.
• Explore other user capabilities.
• Need to reconcile AWS stuff on Heroku.

Board Bank

Planned

• Meet with community partner.
• Instructions for running.
• Phone number sanity check.
• Elastic search.
• User interests.

Progress

• Met with community partner and heard what they want from the project.
• Set up instructions for running. And tested.
• Worked on phone numbers. Still working on it.
• Added user interests.

Goals

• Take care of phone numbers.
• Continue to explore elastic search.
• Allow users to update interests.
• Longer-term goal: More validation during sign-up. Maybe Captchas.

Obstacles

• (in)elastic search requires regular restart.
• Unwillingness to accept MVP.
• Gem dependencies. Planning to contact mentor.

Work time