Sunday times

A quick(ish) update on the past week of work at the collective (I'm in a writing mood rather than coding on a sunday :)

* Casey has been staying up late and creating more robust way to ensure CS code stays in good shape by providing a way to have another set of eyeballs on the code before pushing it on the live site, along with improving the code distribution system and kicked the ass on some major irritating bugs (Atlanta, anyone ;) as well as many minor ones. And staying on top of his emails in many many CS organizational issues (hereonafter mentioned as Leadership stuff :)

* Chris has been moderating Volunteer agreement group and coordinating our efforts (as well as being approachable for some feedback) to keep the ball rolling (Chris says he's been working on awesomeness!), plus the leadership stuff

* Jim has been busy with the backstage stuff of verifications and member services along with the leadership stuff

* Weston left Tuesday morning and we all miss him... the coding guidelines are now in good shape thanks to him :)

* Maija came by for a couple of days to see us all in action, attach faces to emails and profiles, and we hope to see her back in action after her trip is over!

* Walter has been working on a day job (how he does it, I don't know, with people coding all around him at all hours!) but has been active in providing us feedback on more efficient methods for working with the database (which I personally think is excellent as the occasional reminders and more education for application developers would help to ensure site stays up during the busy summer travel months)

* I've been busy with coding the ambassador applications software for the ambassador management team, so more flags can be distributed faster than is possible under the current system (note: I'm just helping them by creating the tool, not involved in the process myself). After an in-house "go for it" I started a brainstorm about providing secondary addresses on the site (a genuinely awaited feature that just hasn't been implemented yet) - more to come soon after some technical solution options are discussed within the tech team. I've also kept an eye on the groups as usual and helped out a bit here and there. And attempting to act as (sometimes) reasonable "community voice" within the house....

* Duke is not one of the coders but has been very gracious in allowing our presence at his house. He's working for some video tutorials for CS - yay for that :) along with ensuring good vibes in the house

* Tiina has been an excellent hostess for us all, making sure we're all well fed with the (infamous) Finnish salmiakki, reindeer meat, smashed potatoes, and dragging us out of the house every once in a while :)