software team meeting, 22-june-2009
Attending: Milan Zimmerman, Scott Wallace, Yoshiki Ohshima, Takashi Yamamiya, Ted Kaehler
Today's talk was largely about our priorities for the summer release, given that we have four weeks left before Squeakfest Brasil. The focus on this release will be to address little stumbling blocks that trip up new users.
We agreed that the summer release would include all of the approved changes since January, along with the following:
- hideable toolbar for pre-XO content
- "standard mode" by default (1200x900 coordinate space, scaled to 800x600 by default on desktops & browser)
- better "introduction to etoys" stuff to intrigue people after the first run
- sharing & loading projects to central server, similar to scratch
Another point that was addressed last week is:
- easy Etoys updates from the server, with periodic reminders
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