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Day 11

I didn't do much research, have any troubles, or work on a wide variety of things today, so this will be short. Team Lemonade Stand selected our roles in the project and we worked on finishing up planning the tickets, creating the milestones, and assigning the tickets to milestones. ...

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Day 10

Team Lemonade Stand now has our tickets for what work we are planning to do on github. One member of team, DAWacker, Lemonade Stand got Lemonade Stand to install and run properly on the XOs after he learned that service_name had become depreciated and replaced with bundle_id. ...

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Week 2: Weekly Wrap-up

It is now the end of the second week. I’m tired of having to constantly deal with these technical problems. They are seriously becoming a problem. Hopefully I’ve seen the end of them or else I’ll be nothing but dead weight to team Lemonade Stand. This week team Lemonade Stand was working on planning out the project for the summer. We have an idea about what we want to do. The problem, though, is that to do the open badges there was a lot that we had to learn about the school servers and how the ...

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Day 9

It was Lemonade day at one of the elementary schools of Rochester. The students had set up small booths and were selling lemonade. Team Lemonade Stand took this day as a opportunity to get a preliminary play test for the game Lemonade Stand. We sent up our stand with XO laptops and got a few kids to come play the game. After watching, we came up with a list of changes we would need to make to the game which was similar to the ideas we already had. ...

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Day 8

I got my machine fixed for now. There is something loose within in that causes the screen not to work from time to time. Then team Lemonade Stand spent the day learning vim and trying to name the unknowns that we need to tackle in order to get the Open Badges to work using the XS school servers. ...

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Day 7

There isn't much to talk about today. Most of the day was spent scouring the internet for as much information the Journal on the XOs and the XS, the Sugar School Servers. Towards the end of the day my machine then died. Going to see if it can be fixed tomorrow or if I have to get a new one. ...

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Day 6

The count got a little mixed up over the weekend. The weekend was spent at a National Day of Civic Hacking working on a small side project of mine called Sky Time, and educational game about telling time for the XO laptops. Then Monday I tried to get Sky Time packaged for the XO. Then today, the Tuesday I'm just going to call Day 6 and just continue my count from there, in the down time of work I finally figured out how to debug an Activity when I found out there was a Log Activity that could tr ...

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Week 1: Weekly Wrap-up

It is now the end of the first week. This first week was mostly spent getting everyone settled into the FOSS community and introducing us all into what we will be working on for the summer. The first day, Day 0, the mentors explained to us what IRC was, we set up Github accounts, and the mentors went over how the summer undergraduate research was going to work. The second day, we started looking at the projects everyone was going to be working on for the summer, I tried to switch my operating sy ...

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Day 3

We spent the day mostly moving everything we had packed up on day 2 to the new location for the FOSSBox for the summer. It was a lot of tiring working moving all the heavy and awkward equipment. There were a few injuries during moving but luckily there was nothing serious. There were a few stiff backs, a couple people got minor cuts, and I ended up with splinters. However, the moving went very smoothly. The rest of the day, us in the Lemonade Stand team went over our ideas of what we want to wor ...

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Day 2

Today was packing day for the FOSSBox. Everything in the FOSSBox is now packed and ready to be moved to it's new temporary location while the FOSSBox is being renovated. After that the Lemonade Stand team worked on organizing our ideas into what where the main things we were going to add this summer, what were things we would like to have added by the end of the summer, and things we would like to see added next time. After that we customized our irc settings. While we were doing this we found a ...