FINALLY A BREAKTHROUGH!!!! Today was our second work from home Friday. This time I was working from Cortland New York, about 2 hour away from RIT and the FOSSbox. My main mission continued throughout the week trying to get the Lemonade Stand Activity to create a journal entry. Previously, I had emailed a former surf member for some tips on how he worked with OLPC during his time with the FOSSbox. I was directed to his Open Source Blog to research what he did with Lemonade Stand and Fortune Hunter.

This morning, I received an email in response telling me that the reason Lemonade stand wasn't writing to the journal was because in the class param's within Lemonade stand's activity.py file, create_object was set to false. I seriously thought that there was no way this could be the only thing keeping the activity from writing to the journal. Turns out it was. After I changed that boolean to True, there was a beautiful journal entry sitting before my eyes.

Next step for me is to play around with datastore more to determine how to store the specific information we need for badges. Stay tuned from the epic week recap later to come!