Meeting Notes for 22 April 2009

Cosmic

• BRANCH/1.1 was merged into TRUNK
• Need to check over some of the SQL - Bob experienced a bug in his workshop. Newer Postgres releases may be stricter?

• Metadata search
  • Comments
  • Custom tagging
  • More flexible searching?

• Retain as much as we can power as we can for the simple interface

CMS

• OGRE
• A screencast of the OGRE discussion
• A whole lot of JavaScript (should work in all browsers back to IE 5.5)
• Fallback to ancient computers (IE 5.0)
• Architecturally similar to iGoogle but custom-written.
• Different window modes; can't really use drop-down because there are a lot of parameters.
• Good tool for teaching logic?
  • Put it in the teacher guide

• Marge suggests getting feedback from persons knowledgeable about instructional design
• Warning about the possible need to radically the UI
• Start up conversation with Jean, Elizabeth earlier for initial feedback?