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Women of Bandura Week 10 Group Blog Post

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What we achieved this past week:

  • The team got the Wax software installed!
  • Melissa mapped out the first few social media posts and scheduled an interview with bandurist Nadia Tarnawsky on Monday
  • Lini pitched the final draft of the logo and banners for social media
  • Tasha prepped the CSV’s for upload into Wax / generated basic pages and met with Teryn
  • Alex led the team through an intro to git / GitHub and completed the lower priority wireframes
    • We decided that for each pull request, the rest of the review team (comprised of Alex, Lini, and myself) will need to approve the edits before merging them into the main branch.

Our goals for this week:

  • Alex will lead the team through GitHub training part 2 on Thursday and will prepare ticketing for development tasks
  • Melissa will continue working working on social media drafts
  • Lini will QA the song csv and update social media images
  • Tasha will add the sheet music PDF’s into the data folder
  • Thursday, the team will undergo GitHub training part 2, begin planning our printed material design, unveil the ticketing process, and discuss the History page.
  • Saturday, Melissa and I will attend a bandura workshop hosted by Teryn and Zoya, who lead the New York Bandura School
  • Monday, we’ll interview Nadia Tarnawsky

How are we doing on deadlines?

We’ve had some back and forth on dates due to WBENA / Teryn’s busy schedule (and our own personal injuries, obligations, etc). As a result, we’ve looked at our deadlines and loosened our expectations, especially with our song research practice, so we can get to the goal in a healthier manner. We’ve decided to prioritize each other’s well-being over deadlines or perfectionism, which I believe has served us well. So far, so good.

At this point, we are planning on using our oral history interviews as a main source for our History of Bandura page. We’re going to ask our interviewees if they would like us to upload a recording of the interview after the semester finishes – we decided to place that boundary to avoid piling on more work.