yodelers, Reminder: rock* dev flock meeting this SUNDAY, March 2nd at 5PM. The goals: meet the team, ramp up on the framework and ThoughtAndMemory tech vision, figure out communication, TODO and documentation processes, any other QA Dinner is at 7. 17 Bishop Allen Dr. Cambridge, MA 02139 middle two green doors If you can't come on time come late. 919 740-3149 http://thoughtandmemory.org/trac L.
Team, Sorry for the late notice but I'll be unable to come to tonights meeting. I was intending to but my wife caught a bug this weekend and I'm going to stay home with her. Here's my input though - email and IRC meetings work for me. I am moving to North Carolina in a few months so meeting in person won't be an option for me for too much longer. My interest in food stems from the fact that I fancy myself a good cook. My focus is healthy, whole food and of course many products make impressive claims about how great they are for you - I'd be interested to see if they really are. There's a lot of mixed data out there largely due to food scientists constantly changing the rules about what is 'good' for us (eggs have been good, bad, and inbetween throughout my life) so I would like to see TAM helping to clarify that. I also think it would be nice to know what actions back the claims a company makes (how 'green' are they really, do they slash and burn forests, mistreat their workers, treat employees really well...). I know the beauty of TAM is that all of this information would *ideally* be available for lots of foods and users could then create profiles to just filter out the information they are interested in personally. >From a technological standpoint the mailer is the piece that I know needs to be worked on and I have some experience with it. The two approaches that I've investigated are using gmail through the google api or sending mail directly from the server using smtplib. I haven't looked at receiving or processing incoming mail directly but I don't expect that is too difficult either. Please send me the meeting minutes or any notes if you can. Thanks, Christopher(Continue reading)
yo, The wiki reflects some recent insight into setting up one's environment to get going with the code: http://thoughtandmemory.org/trac/wiki/WikiStart Let me know if you have problems. Please modify the wiki with corrections and tips. Lucy.
yo, I've updated the http://thoughtandmemory.org/trac/wiki/FAQ part of the wiki to reflect some recent changes I made to the environment setup. Essentially, if one uses sqlite3, then a default local settings.py file is used (via CURRENT.default) if no CURRENT file is created. Notice that your personal CURRENT file should not be checked in. I accidentally check it in and then removed it from svn... which deleted my local version-- i was expecting to get a ? when I svn stat'd. Thus, your CURRENT file may be deleted next time you svn up. eit. Just recreate a CURRENT file that points to your local settings directory. I'm moving on to updating other documentation on the wiki. Hopefully a high level timeline and low level todo list (tract tickets) will be posted shortly. the ticket system is meant to be collaborative, so i expect to just get the ball rolling. pees, l.
Hi folks. The MIT Public Service Fund is gnerously sponsoring us to hire one or two work study students as workshop coordinators and researchers. This is part of our campaign to generate usable data on ThoughtAndMemory.org's system. If you have friends with an interest in sustainability, activism, research, or just a really people oriented person that might have some work study eligibility then please let them/me know, ok? The pay will be $13 and hour. We want to find some really passionate people to bring our service to the next level. Also, if I'm sending you this email it's because you've already expressed interest in being a project ally. So I'm going to add you to our google goups email list so that you can get our announcements about upcoming events and research challenges. If receiving email once a week or so is too much email then please let me know and I'll be happy to remove you. Thanks and enjoy the sunshine! -clay -- -- Clay Ward President and Founder Thought And Memory, Inc http://www.ThoughtAndMemory.org "Buy It Like You Mean It" -------------- next part --------------(Continue reading)
Attached is the ThoughtAndMemory.org project's first newsletter! I'm really proud of all of our achievements and I think that this is a great way for us to celebrate. Thanks go out to those of you who helped and requested that this happen. Also, this means that we're open to submissions for next issue! I'm going to try to produce this newsletter twice a year. So if you'd like to include an article you've got several months to let me know and prepare. And for more frequent updates remember to check out our blog: http://www.thoughtandmemory.org/blog Woohoo! -clay -- -- Clay Ward President and Founder Thought And Memory, Inc http://www.ThoughtAndMemory.org "Buy It Like You Mean It" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/private/dev-flock/attachments/20080304/b26d9244/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ravenheraldmarch08.pdf Type: application/pdf(Continue reading)
yo, I'm looking forward to seeing everyone again this Sunday at our next ThoughtAndMemory work session. 5-7 with dinner afterwards. Let me know if you prefer a different time. This one will be especially exciting as we'll be reviewing the task list. In the next few days I'll send out the expected milestones. We have milestones every 3 month. Each milestone is broken down by component, eg, engine, UI, data collection. Each component has highlevel tasks that, coordinated between components, fulfill the milestone's goal. *** Please review what I send out and ADD any task I've left off, especially if it is something you're interested in working on. *** The task list is high level, so I don't expect surprises. Feel free to add tasks if necessary (email me back). Think about the actual steps you're going through to get things done. We'll add them to the task manager on Sunday, and each of you will be responsible for keeping the task manager up to date with accomplishments and discovered tasks. The goal is for the whole ThoughtAndMemory team to make WEEKLY progress as we count down towards the milestones, and it will also make mentoring more effective. In my own work I tend to dive into tasks and not look up until I get things working. Knowing this I am conscientious of getting external feedback about what I'm doing, since(Continue reading)
Hey, guys. We have several new folks on our team now. Really good energy, lots of drive. I'm excited for everyone to meet each other. In order to expand gracefully, we've come up with a more inclusive work flow. We should go over details in person. But here are some of the features: There are now links to any of our working websites (email archives, wikis, etc) on a bookmark page. You can get there by clicking on "Team Pages" in the sidebar of our blog. It's also at http://www.ThoughtAndMemory.org/bookmarks.html >From the bookmarks page you can go to our shiny new project management system. Why have we invested so much time in setting this up? Keeping track of our aspirations and accomplishments helps us: - Understand the context of our own and each other's work. - Eliminate redundant or counterproductive tasks. - Plan our strategic milestones and next steps. - Demonstrate what we've been able to accomplish to funders, press, and other supporters. Your user name for the project management system is at the end of this email. Your password is currently odinr0x! (the "0" is a number, not a letter.) We've also identified a set of Iteration Milestones. We're naming our 3(Continue reading)
yo, http://64.22.103.24:8080/xplanner/do/view/projects http://thoughtandmemory.org/trac/wiki/ProjectManagerHelp Jam Session this Sunday at 6<---new time! dinner afterwards. agenda (might not make sense until you read the whole email): * 15 min. go over intent of project management system and milestone(=iteration) goals. * note: we'll have a presentation, Q&A and celebration of meeting our Crow 5/31/08 goals. that's what we're working towards. * 5 min each: each of us reports: story(s) or highlevel task(s) that we're working on. include how it contributes to Crow goals. include completion criteria, which are quantifiable measures that mark when the story/task is completed. tasks with estimated time current status <<<< this is the important part. in the future the other stuff will take less time/energy/awareness because we'll all be used to it. ^^ we'll do this together on the spot if you haven't done this yet or have questions. brainstorming and feedback is good. I also hope that ya'll have been making progress on your own (: * group questions? converse in smaller work groups if necessary, As you all hopefully heard, I finally got the project manager setup, plus Clay and I filled in a ton of project stories from the spreadsheet.(Continue reading)
Yeah, hey, the taco place in Union Square that is the best Boston has ever had is expanding into the bar next door. Sunday is their soft opening. So I was thinking of getting in my van and bringing folks from the coop over at 7:15. Does someone else have a car to add to the fun? Or if you don't like the ghetto van then we could rent a zipcar for an hour or two. What do you think? I'm so excited! -clay -- Clay Ward President and Founder Thought And Memory, Inc http://www.ThoughtAndMemory.org "Buy It Like You Mean It"
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