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Consolidation Unit Pitch Market and Studio

Work to have done: Submit final-for-now website, with source files, and reflection; read Paul Ford on the pleasures of reading git commit histories; begin preparing for your final portfolio and a consolidation project to include in it

Plan for the day:

  1. Review, respond, recruit
  2. Tasks and roles
  3. Studio time

Review and respond

Now that you’ve spent some time discovering your thoughts for yourself over the weekend, it’s time to share with others – and, possibly, to recruit or join up with some like-minded co-travelers.

Head into the shared google doc and read through the project brainstorms.

Add polite clarifying questions using the Comments feature – or offer your services, if you'd like to form a team!

We’ll spend a while looping around and back in the margins or aloud.

When we’re reaching a stable point, I’ll ask you to record your team memberships (including solo teams) also in the google doc.

Planning: tasks and roles

With your team (which may have one member, or more), get to planning. You’ll need to have…

  1. a brief overview of your baseline project goals, which may be revised from an initial pitch
  2. a list of smaller tasks you’ll need to accomplish to achieve those goals
  3. proposed roles for each of your team members, if you have a team of two or more
    • last class I’d floated these possibilities: project manager, visual designer, experience designer, programmer, researcher, copy writer. Feel free to start there or adjust as needed.
    • You may also decide it would help to read through this excerpt from Writer/Designer, on ways to facilitate group collaboration.
  4. a link to some space where you’ll develop the project: most likely an existing GitHub repository or a new one.

Optionally, you can add

  1. more aspirational stretch goals beyond those above.

Please post these plans to the google doc by the end of today's class.

Please use the section below the names so I can more easily scoop up the group memberships for Thursday's Zoom rooms. I also recommend posting a copy of your plan in your project's README – but don't forget to post that link where I can find it!

Studio time

When you’re ready to move on, I’ll get out of your way. :¬)

Set goals for today

As is our custom, please write down your goals for in-class time at the beginning of your work session, and expect to come back at the end with an update.

I’ll float around, as usual.

Remember your resources

Don’t forget that there are some pre-compiled Resources that might be useful…

And please let me know if you find any more to share!

Exit note

Five minutes before the end of class, please loop back to the google doc and make an updated plan: what do you want to have finished before Thursday?

Homework for next time

  • Continue with whatever work you set out for yourself to consolidate, integrate, and ideally deepen your learning this semester.
  • Post a preview – a beginning – to the repo you linked to in today’s class.
    • If you’re revising, post at least one new commit.
    • I’m going by project, not person, so teams should divide the labor appropriately… and hold each other to the agreements you’ve made.
  • EXT: If you haven’t yet done so, and you have more time now than over the weekend, please do the Ford reading and commit history activity from last class
  • Have you also considered reading back through your studio goals in the google doc?