Posted On: Mon 17 June 2013
Today Casey, one of the people working here for the summer as part of the Google Summer of Code, brought in an Ouya. We took this opportunity to try it and some of the games for it out. We played: * Monocle Man, a puzzle game * Garnatron , a vertical space shooter * God of Blades, a side scrolling sword fighting game * [Polarity ...
Posted On: Mon 17 June 2013
WOOOO!!!! This was our first full week at FOSSbox, exciting stuff!! Here's a recap of what I've done: # Day 10: -> Days got mixed up, monday's entry was added into last week's week in review post # Day 11: Marking Milestones -> Issues on GitHub -->> I transferred over our list of "Core Requirements" and"Would be Nice-ties" -->> I also added in issues about or project with badges, adding info the XO Jou ...
Posted On: Mon 17 June 2013
Posted On: Fri 14 June 2013
Today I worked mostly on Sky Time business. I edited the essays, re-shot most of the video, and set up the activity page for it! :D http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en- US/sugar/addon/4670 I also separated the FOSS and Fedora badges into separate svg files. https:// github.com/FOSSRIT/badges/tree/master/art ...
Posted On: Thu 13 June 2013
Posted On: Thu 13 June 2013
Posted On: Thu 13 June 2013
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 ...
Posted On: Thu 13 June 2013
We got around to assigning team roles as well as milestone 1 tickets to people. As for me, I will be assuming the Tech lead role in the group. My responsibilities include working on both ends of the project, the game development as well as the open badges integration. I will be focusing on creating a bridge between the two. For tickets, I was assigned with working on UI cleanup and creating a new screen for the profit guessing mini game that the kids must complete. We threw together some ideas ...
Posted On: Thu 13 June 2013
We did a lot more research into Open Badges, School Servers, and the XO journal. We cracked a lot more unanswer questions about the journal and how Lemonade Stand can write and talk to the journal. On the side, I worked on implementing Lemonade Stand into the new version of the XO. It may have taken me almost all day, but it was a huge success! With Lemonade Stand working on the XO, we are now able to start hacking away at the game and see how it l ...
Posted On: Thu 13 June 2013
Today we sat around and discussed what we were going to put into tickets and things that we could combine or separate. We spent most of the day doing this as well as some heavy research into the school servers. I was digging for information about adding code to have Lemonade Stand talk to the Jounral in the XO so the information about Lemonade Stand could be backed on the school server. I found a handy dandy [notebook](http://en.flossmanuals.net/ma ...