Monday, May 29, 2017

Marcin and I discussed temporarily shifting me from the D3D project to a community development role, so I worked on the following:

I reviewed the Onboarding Flowchart which seems to suggest that familiarity with workflow and culture occur prior to joining a team (unless I'm mistaken). I want to redefine 'on-boarding' in terms of getting everyone (and me!) aboard a project by:
1. Getting familiar with the communication platforms (jitsi, google hangouts, OSE network), protocol, and team members. (I'm clumsy and I've only said hi to one team member!)
2. Attending meet-ups regularly, and contributing ideas (I missed today's meeting which I thought was tomorrow. I lucked out and it got postponed.)
3. Producing good logs in terms of content/files, arrangement, and style. (One litmus test is that several of us have been 'on-boarded' at the same time and none of our logs look the same.)
4. Getting everyone engaged and communicating with their team members. (Do any of us have each other's emails or phone numbers handy?)
5. Competently using the universal bundle of OSE dev tools: the wiki, google docs, etc... (Actually, what else?)
6. Submitting time-sheets consistently.
7. [...]
I pulled the "Welcome Email" content and am editing it here. From my POV the issue is not content but arrangement and medium. My thought was to rearrange it into:
1. The Welcome and General Orientation
2. New Developer To-Do list with embedded help video). By the way, the video would depend on the to-do list so I want to get that nailed down before working on that.

[4 hrs]

Thursday, May 25, 2017

To familiarize myself with the D3D project overview I reviewed:

The Construction Manual for Lyman's Filament Extruder V6 pdf.
The video of Lymen's Extruder V6 with Spool Winder .
The Filament Maker Team Meeting 5/22/2017.
The Spooler files for the Lyman Filament Extruder.
In the The May 22-23 Development Team Meeting Marcin said I'd trace the winder files and Kassie would take the spooler files, but on review they're somewhat mixed with miscellaneous files. I tried getting in contact with Kassie via the OSE Network to say, to say "Hey all the mixed files are numbered 1-15. Let's just split them roughly down the middle, and I'll take 1-8, and you take 9-15 (or whatever)," but reached the character limit prematurely.
I was trying to figure out why I'm tracing the stl. files in the first place. I think I'm tracing solids in sketcher to create equivalent meshes to keep file size down?

Took care of new developer housekeeping:

Replied to the HR email to supply info for the team bios.
Read the Daily Log of Tasks to review Best Practices for logging work.
Started to set up this log with the appropriate links, etc. I've never contributed on a wiki so I skimmed over Wiki Formatting Help to help me with formatting (I added the link up top for quick reference), and spent a little time looking at other developer logs and flipping back and forth between their Read & Edit pages to see how they got different formatting effects.
Signed up at OSE Network
Shot an email to a local guy who runs Linux on a Mac to try and get help with the dual boot. I'm currently running Ubuntu 16.04 on Parallels as a short term fix, but I need a game plan and don't have one yet.
Learned how to add images on the Wiki Instructions page so I could add my badge, and referred to Image Help to learn how to scale it down: