Week 13 Already! Last night, I checked in with WBENA on their executive call, and I brought up scheduling a final(ish) walkthrough of the website, where they can see everything assembled but still have time to give us edits. They asked if we could send our availability, which we will be discussing in tomorrow’s group call. The date would be some time around the end of the month though, which really puts our timing into perspective. The end is in sight!

So, what else did we do this week?

• Melissa and I went to a Bandura Workshop hosted by Teryn and fellow bandurist Zoya, where Melissa played bandura for the first time!
• I added the sheet music and programs to the backend of the website
• Alex set up our ticketing system in GitHub for working on building out the site as per our wireframes, which we reviewed in class and helped Lini with debugging.
• Lini tested this ticketing system and added in our header as well as images for our front page
• Melissa, Lini, and I interviewed Nadia Tarnawsky, Cleveland-based folk-singer and bandurist, on Monday.
• Melissa and Lini began work on transcribing the interview (sadly Zoom is not like Teams with auto-transcription)
• We discussed the ethics of AI-based transcription

What are we still doing this week (before tomorrow’s meeting)?

• I will add the rest of the backend tickets to our GitHub Project – mostly adding the rest of the sheet music (which we are waiting to receive) and adding in the old recordings as placeholders so we can work out logistics).
• Lini and Melissa will keep working on transcription
• Melissa will continue to work on drafting social media posts
• Alex will continue working on adding / editing / reviewing pull requests for front-end tickets, and the programming crew (myself, Alex, and Lini) will keep working on / reviewing them

Over spring break, we’re going to try to meet up once or twice in paired programming sessions so we can continue to learn from each other and have dedicated time for questions and debugging.

We are currently roughly on schedule. There are some tasks that we have had to soften or which no longer quite make sense exactly as written in the schedule. For some materials, such as some sheet music, lyrics, and recordings, we need to wait to receive them before we are able to plug them into the site. However, while this means that back-end development is technically running over schedule, we’ve still been plugging in information and checking to see that what we have works, so we are still moving forward with the website as planned. We currently don’t have any true blockers (knock wood), and we will continue to be flexible as we keep moving forward. We are still on track to deliver what we said we would (again, knock wood, I’ve already had tendinitis, a concussion, and a knee injury. I have learned not to tempt fate.)