Pancake/Team/Meetings/2012-08-20

Deb (dria)

Last week

• Put together a comprehensive initial (draft) list of user stories for French Toast & started matching those to proposed development phases
• Short email exchange with Cori about research projects, following up this week

This week

• Finish first draft of user stories & development plan for French toast (ping me if you want access)
• Look in to some tools for managing/tracking an agile dev plan like this (suggestions welcome -- currently only know of Pivotal Tracker)
• Meet with Cori re: Sharing user study & get that ball rolling
• Sort out (likely with Gordon) plan for doing our own lightweight usability testing on a biweekly basis (UR team doesn't do those, apparently)
• Make time to read a bunch of Pancake-related things that have been in my queue for a while (several books)

Gordon (gordonb)

• Updated demo path
• Created Keynote UX Deck for IDEO
• Presented to IDEO
• Updated wireframes
  • Switched to infinite stacking paradigm, instead of multiple layers of tabs
  • Ideation for Discovery mode
  • Revisited browsing controls
  • Snap back to Lv1 behavior
  • Updated search results
  • Removed sidebar from Lv2 and 3.
• Wrapped up Keynote prototype
• Tested module conversion scripts (Node -> AMD) so we can use Node libraries on the front end
• Investigated amd forked pancake-ft-client
• Investigating amd-store, getting familiar

This week:

• Work on user testing script
• User testing
• App Dashboard first run
• Discovery page ideation
• Web search results wireframe
• Contribute to JS French Toast prototype

Stefan

• Experimented with Linked In's Cleo typeahead engine
• Learned how to use Elastic MapReduce in both Streaming and Native (Java) modes
• Processed various data sets on Elastic MapReduce as input for Cleo
• Deployed a typeahead prototype

Sam (sfoster)

• Exploration of using dojo/store as backing store with Knockout.js doing data-binding: https://github.com/sfoster/todomvc/tree/amdstore_ko
• Started skeleton app to prototype French Toast front-end architecture: https://github.com/mozillapancake/pancake-ft-client

Olivier

• Exploration in topic modelling land
• Topic model improves, a bigger dataset is obtained and used
• Recommendations!