Tuesday was an immensely more productive day than the preceding Monday. Without power outages, we were able to get down to work quickly, and stay focused. After catching up with my blogs, I began a new search into the Journal of OLPC by pining the #sugar irc room. A fantastic fellow with the irc handle of "dnarvaes" pointed me towards the sugar GIThub repository of the journal which you can find Here. The relevant modules of the sugar repositories are sugar, sugar-toolkit-gtk3, and sugar-datast ...

Yesterday was crazy....between losing power and a freak hail/thunderstorm which turned my car seats into sponges, getting things done was difficult. We came into work with a beautiful day above our heads and a readiness to tackle the day. I started the day by digging into the activity I found over the weekend as well as tearing apart the code for the mock journal application. A similarity i noticed strait off was that bot acvities mentioned "logging" as in the standard library. I didn't know wh ...

This concludes our third week working with FOSS@RIT for our summer Co-op. It was a week of mostly planning and course laying for the rest of our summer. We exploited Github and it's wonderful ticket feature to add milestones and tickets for our goals. Since we now have our goals clearly outlined on Github, we can finally get to work on the purpose of our summer Co-op. These tickets are an open feature and I thoroughly encourage you all to create some of your own when to start working on a projec ...

Last Friday was our first real "Work From Home Friday". I woke up that morning with confidence in finding the way the OLPC journal talks to each activity and vice versa. Unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be. I spent the greater part of the day unsuccessfully pinging Google and the interwebz for some information on this ticket of mine. Having another day where I felt like I made no progress whatsoever isn't very encouraging....As a last ditch effort, I pinged sugar in IRC hoping that they would ...

Today had a bunch of unexpected happenings. We began the day working on our own this time because our mentor was busy with meetings and the such, so we set up our own EtherPad, which is essentially what we do every morning with various different online text editors. This gives the teams a place to jot down their roles for the day and allow us that amazing feeling of literally crossing a task off of your list of todo's. We then took a specific ticket that needed a little m ...

Today we had a lot of busy work in Lemonade world. We finished creating our github tickets, and just need to assign these tickets to our team members. With this done, I turned my focus to researching Mozilla Open Badges. My first search into Mozilla brought me to the OpenBadges.org Site which is the poster site for Open Badges. It gives new users a new summary and explains what Open Badges is. I learned, that to be able to receive badges, you need to have a backpac ...

Today the largest part of the day was the Lemonade Stand's start into creating tickets on git hub so we can begin to tackle some serious steps into our Lemonade Stand work. Within every repository on github there is an issue tab. We use this tab to create the tickets that we need to work on to make sure we accomplish our goals for thie summers project. Here's a link on how to use the github issue tab to its fullest extent: github issues tab ...

This week was, again, a whirlwind of experiences. Leading the charge on this battle, we were able to take Monday off because we all went to the National Civic Day of Hacking. Beginning on Tuesday, we had a short seminar on getting set up on GitHUB to learn how to use Git. We also started our planning for our trip to a local school for Lemonade Day, by planning I mean we started talking about what would be good to bring and how we were going to get there. Moving into our r ...

BEGINNING OF A NEW DAY! This day was actually Thursday because it was when we had boneless buffalo wings from BWW's . So to correct my timeline, last Wednesday was the rough researching day. Today we started off the day by getting briefed in to how VIM worked. It was a little much to take in, as we have to learn all of he different key commands that VIM can use. Continuing from our productively lost Wednesday, I hopped into the chat rooms that ...

This previous Thursday, the Lemonade Stand team had quite a hard time at work. It was our job that day to research sugar XO laptops communicated with a school server, with regards to the Journal. The Journal is an activity that records a list of activities that have been accessed throughout time. Sort of like the history on a web browser. Students have an option of adding tags to these entries to show what they learned while using that particular act ...