Ok, maybe I'm claiming Hannibal Smith's line a little bit early, but the plan itself has come together...it's just not implemented successfully yet! As the A-Team, we have decided what contributions we are going to make to the Lemonade Stand activity and when we think they should be completed (see our timeline here). I was quite pleased with how easily this came together. As we all played with the activity we kept finding more little improvements we could make or bugs we could fix, so we quickly came up with a list of tasks, actually more than we could do in the next six weeks! We discussed our priorities and timetable and voila - a schedule was made! I think we owe a lot of this simplicity to the youth of the activity.
We've also made contact with the activity owner, Nathaniel about our plans. We had contacted him a few weeks ago and had a quick response from him. He seems very helpful and eager to see this activity grow and improve. In our plans we had several questions about what we interpreted as bugs or weaknesses of the program, so our latest contact with him is asking for a lot of clarification on these issues. I expect a response in the next day or two, since our questions were a bit extensive. I don't expect that this delay will slow down our progress at all since our first steps are more related to documentation, which he has already welcomed!
As a team we still have to decide how we will divide the labor. I think we will all collaborate on the work, but maybe rotate responsibility for submissions. That will allow each of us to have the experience and to get credit in the Sugar community.
I am so happy to say that I am still optimistic about the work this far into the semester. More than that, I am excited! I really like the Lemonade Stand game and think it has a lot of potential to be a great tool! I am so glad to be a part of it!
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