This week, the FOS* team managed to complete a lot of the milestones that we’d set before spring break. Joanne and Eva completed the dataset, Kevin finished mid-fi wireframes, and Martin has been consistently keeping up our social media platforms. Additionally, we’ve finished selecting and purchasing a domain for our site, as well as completed our branding (logos, color scheme, fonts). We’ve also, of course, been creating and sharing memes with each other as well. As of now, we’re just fleshing out the details on both the data and design side of things.

Once again, we’re not particularly concerned about time, given the amount of leeway we baked into our schedule. As things are becoming completed, we’re now at a stage where we simply need to flesh out nits and details, and pull everything (dataset, designs, external resources) together into a cohesive whole. The fact that we’ve selected our domain and completed our branding helps in doing this work of making things feel put together. 

We’re also still meeting on Sundays for the most part, though we’ve found that scheduling things on a weekly basis based on our ever-changing personal schedules has been good. We also amp up the amount of meetings per week based on what we need to get done, which hasn’t been a problem either. We’ve also found it helpful to even just work independently on our own tasks in the Discord space together, and ask for feedback or ideas as we go.

By the end of the week, we are aiming to:

• complete high-fidelity wireframes for the website
• finish our topic modeling and get started on code scaffolding
• plan outreach strategy for next week
• Get started on writing web copy