This week, the FOS* team got our website and our two social media sites up and running. Joanne put in some crucial legwork on our dataset, Kevin designed our landing page and starter style guide, Eva built the landing page, and Martin sorted out our social media posting schedule and organizational software. All of us also made and/or critiqued each others’ memes as we worked on bulking up the content we have to share.

We set some very ambitious goals for making a complete, clean dataset, as well as for finishing the website’s midi-fi wireframes; this is obviously the best way to lead up to saying those aren’t done yet, but they’re being done properly. As a group, we’re not concerned with being behind on those deadlines, since 1. We baked in enough time to be “behind”, 2. There is no way of rushing quality data here and 3. More time on the data means more time available for designing. 

We’ll meet, as usual, on Sunday. This week, Joanne outlined some QC and data-sorting tasks that are best done manually, so we’ll apply an hour of our time together towards that. We like to work in a Discord voice channel, which has a great coworking vibe and relevant tech capabilities without the complication and screen fatigue of videoconferencing. 

By the end of Spring Break, we’ll aim to have:

• our dataset finished
• Observable prototypes for visualizations
• Mid-fi wireframes complete for the website
• 2-3 posts per week on our social media + engagement with other relevant accounts
• Outreach to CUNY law students (and others, potentially)