IRC log of #novawebdev for Thursday, 2023-03-02

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tmickelsonhello scooper 14:25
scooperhello tmickelson14:25
scooperJeff want you and myself to work on a project with Aaron tmickelson14:26
scooperdid he inform you about that14:26
scooperDeploying a django project with gunicorn and nginx14:29
jelknerGood afternoon, scooper 14:29
scooperGood morning JEff14:29
jelknerscooper, do you have a sense of how things are going with the groups?14:30
jelkneri haven't heard much from them, so i don't have a good sense of that14:30
scooperyes14:30
jelknerthey will all be ready to share real progress on saturday?14:30
scooperProgress will be there but it will be a lil not really much14:31
tboimahhello to everyone14:31
jelknerhello tboimah 14:31
scooperI told you early that for the past days we had power shortage at MCSS14:31
jelknerscooper, i didn't send the monthly payment yet14:31
jelkneri'm waiting until saturday14:32
scooperWhen the intern come in the is no current14:32
jelknerthey all need to know, that if they don't keep up the progress, this will stop at some point14:32
jelkneri want to warn everyone about that on saturday14:32
jelknerand set some expectations14:32
scooperWe only put generator on saturday if power is not around14:33
tboimahI'm fine jeff and you14:33
jelkneri understand14:33
jelknerthat is an ongoing problem14:33
jelknerit will be a problem we have to learn to live with14:33
jelknerand be creative14:33
jelkneranyway, if we don't move forward, we fail14:34
scooperI can't put generator why the mcss staff is still around .... it will cause noise in their ear14:34
jelkneri understand all the challenges, scooper 14:34
jelknerit totally get it14:34
jelknermy only point is, and it is simple: if we can't move forward, we fail14:34
scooperCan I come in Jeff14:34
jelknerscooper, i'm not sure if you all here anything in liberia about the economic situation here, but we have had significant inflation this year14:35
scooperWhether students come to the lab or not... Once they all develop love for what they are doing even in my absence they will have something to show14:36
jelknerso workers here are actually earning less now then they did last year14:36
jelknerwe APS employees, for example, are getting around a 5% increase14:36
jelknerbut inflation was more than 9%14:36
jelknerso we lost more than 4% over our earning last year14:36
jelknermy wife and i see our bill at the supermarket each week going up14:37
scooperOh my God14:37
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jelknerlong story short, it is a bit harder for me to come up with my monthly payment to you14:39
jelkneri am committed to doing it14:39
jelknerbut i need you all to be committed to continuing to grow your skills14:40
jelknerso that this has a realistic hope of becoming self funding14:40
jelknerwithin a year or so14:40
jelknerthat means you have enough skills there to be able to do paid work14:40
jelknerto deliver meaningful value14:40
jelknerwe have a long way to go14:40
jelknerbut we will only get there with hard work and sustained effort over a long period of time14:41
jelknerok, that's all i have for now14:41
scooperI understand Jeff14:42
scooperDid Svage and D Cammue reponse to you mail14:42
jelkneri did see an email from svaye14:42
jelkneri spoke with anna l. in class today14:42
jelkneri told her that i am expecting her and svaye to take *initiative* around the project with tanaka14:43
jelknerit's a great project14:43
jelknerand will also be a great opportunity for you, my friend14:43
jelknersince like you noticed, this will require an interactive backend that will give you a chance to practice django14:44
jelknerbut we need a team14:44
jelknerso i want to see svaye and dcamue deliver on the front end14:44
jelkneryou can help them, but you shouldn't do it for them14:45
scooperI want you to give me this opportunity to do that project in djang with the lil skills I have develop since I started this django journey14:45
jelknerif they don't progress, we will not have team we need a year from now to make a business14:45
scooperThis project you are talking about is a Block Jeff14:45
jelknerBlock?14:45
scooperYes it's a Block Post 14:46
jelknerah14:46
jelknerMore like a Blog?14:46
jelknerit does seem like a blog14:46
jelknerwe need to get tanaka involved14:46
scooperThat want user to comment the when settle post have been publish from what I saw in the mail you send me14:46
jelknerand dr. stephen hubbard14:47
scooperJeff14:51
scooperWhat happen to the every thursday meeting.... 14:51
scooperBeen online thinking of meeting other but it's not really working for me..... Can you please plead with the other keep the every Thursday meeting going14:52
jelknerscooper, great things are happening thursdays!14:54
jelknerthe nova web team is getting paid work14:54
jelknerand we are trying to get the business done14:54
jelknerthey have several client projects they are working on14:55
jelkneragain, the goal is for these things to become collaborative projects14:55
jelknerso that both the students here, and the students there, get paid for the work they are doing14:56
jelknerwe have a new member, Cali, who has strong business skills14:56
jelknershe has been looking into our current business practices14:56
jelknerand working to help us get on a better business footing14:56
jelknerthat has always been nova web's problem14:57
jelknerwe have had solid programming talent14:57
jelknerbut no sense of how to run a business14:57
jelknerwe need both to be successful14:57
jelknerthey are working on a new website for: https://www.allianceforhousingsolutions.org/14:58
scooperI saw this link14:59
jelknerand they are working on: https://aeava.org/14:59
scooperfrom you before14:59
scooperok I will check the other link up that you just send.....14:59
jelknerhttps://aeapacva.org/14:59
jelknerhttps://novalaciro.org/14:59
jelknerthey are getting too busy15:00
jelknerit would be so nice if someday before too long, the team there could help out with these projects15:00
jelknerbut they have so much to learn first15:00
jelknerthat's why i'm pushing so hard that they keep moving forward15:00
jelknerscooper, i just called dr. hubbard15:01
jelknerto ask his help communicating with tanaka15:01
jelknerwe need Tanaka to be an active, "onsite customer"15:01
jelkneror we can't effectively do what he wants us to do15:02
scooperJeff before that project start we need to do site mapping15:02
jelknerso i wanted him to schedule a time to join us saturday between 1 and 3 pm your time15:02
scooperok sound great15:02
jelknerok, i have to go15:02
jelkneri'll be back on after school15:02
scooperI will mail you later 15:02
jelknerthanks, my friend!15:03
scooperabout my though for that project15:03
jelknertalk soon...15:03
jelknersuper15:03
scooperok15:03
jelknerACTION signs off15:03
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