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[schooltool] Sprint Day 1 Report
Tom Hoffman
18 years ago
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We've almost completed our first full day of sprinting at the New
England Linux Symposium. Stephan Richter is setting up his computer
to give a late night adapter presentation to Jeff Elkner's students.
Jeff's kids are a delight, and I'm completely amazed that we've got
9th and 10th grade students sitting here hungry to learn Zope 3 design
patterns.

We started the day with our team meeting with several other symposium
attendees, including Jim "maddog" Hall of Linux International. We
reviewed some of the existing SchoolTool functionality, focusing on
how we implement various policies around attendance, and navigation
within the application for teachers.

We got a lot of good feedback. I think I changed colors and made
pained expressions as the group picked apart whether or not we've
implemented the attendance system to be flexible enough... the
consensus seemed to be "almost but not quite," but we left the
morning's meeting having a better understanding of the problem.

In the discussion of navigation, Bryant Patten, one of the symposium
attendees had the idea of making a vertical row of tabs that
correspond to the periods in the teacher's day so that, for example,
if a teacher was primarily working on attendance during the day, they
could simply move down through the tabs as the day progresses. After
some discussion, Paul Carduner, Stephan and I worked out a static
mockup of a new layout aimed specifically at the needs of teachers (as
opposed in particular to administrators, who much more complex tasts
in SchoolTool right now). A screenshot of our current prototype is
attached.

While we were doing that Albertas Agejevas and Eldar Omuraliev made
some changes to our attendance forms that people had suggested in the
morning.

Overall, we had a very productive day, and I'm looking forward to
building on this work over the next two days.

--Tom
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Tom Hoffman
18 years ago
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Post by Tom Hoffman
We started the day with our team meeting with several other symposium
attendees, including Jim "maddog" Hall of Linux International.
Er, that's John "maddog" Hall.

--Tom

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