Frontend Team Meeting Agenda

[ryanfchase]

Overview

Meeting agendas, useful links, and action items for the weekly Spacelab Frontend member meetings

Agenda template

Template for weekly meeting's comment

## YYYY-MM-DD - Spacelab Frontend Weekly Meeting

### Topic Requests
Topics that members want to address in this meeting.

### Action Items
Tasks that need to get done for upcoming meetings.

### Resources
Links and references to useful URLs, documents, resources, etc.

### Attendees

- [ ] FJ
- [ ] Alexei
- [ ] Ryan
- [ ] Kausar
- [ ] Brianne

[ryanfchase]

2024-10-11 Spacelab Frontend Weekly Meeting

Topic Requests

• [x] 1st time intros

Notes

• Website: https://github.com/spacelabdev/spacelab-react
• Exoplanetarium app: https://github.com/spacelabdev/Exoplanetarium-3D
  • currently we are able to run locally, with lots of warnings

Action Items

Questions for Matt

• [ ] Upcoming task: changing the about page for the spacelab-react page
  • [ ] do we need to ask the design team for input?
  • [ ] New team members?
  • [ ] New history?
  • [ ] Is something broken on the About Page's history component? Is something supposed to be sliding? Or is there a carousel
  • [ ] We noticed the team listing (Roles) is not mobile-friendly
• [ ] Where our ticketing system lives?
  • [ ] potentially?: https://trello.com/b/56OkqE6f
  • [ ] What should our priorities be? Is there another list we of tickets that we need to work through?
  • [ ] Do we have a team board that we can use? Or should we come up with our own?
• [ ] Does the frontend team responsible for renewing our SSL cert to get https on the website
• [ ] Do contributors need special team permissions? E.g. perhaps our team lead can be given permissions to edit the Github issues, labels, etc

Questions for anyone familiar w/ Exoplanetarium3D

• [ ] noticing we aren't pulling data from any source, just hardcoding the planets
  • [ ] What is the plan for data pipeline? How should we begin facilitating this?
• [ ] How do we visualize planets that are in different solar system? On the demo site, we only see a single solar system, and planets that live within that solar system
• [ ] Adding light (thus shadows) to make things more realistic
  • [ ] ambient light
  • [ ] center-point of light
  • [ ] we currently have hemisphere light
  • [ ] what is the strategy for coming up with our textures? What aspects are we looking to improve?
  • [ ] each planets are not easily distinguishable from each other
• [x] Where is React website deployed
  • [x] Github Pages

Next Meeting Goals

• [ ] Familiarize with frontend website (About Page)
• [ ] Find out how our data pipeline will look so we can get ready to receive actual data(?)

[fjstria]

2024-10-11 - Spacelab All-Team Weekly Meeting

Topic Requests

• Matt: Project introduction PPT
• All-team: Informal stand-up

Frontend Notes

• Overall project goals:
  • Improve Exoplanetarium
    • Data Science team working on database
  • Update the About page
    • Wait on new design from UX/UI
• New tasks will come from PM and UX/UI
  • Frontend PM incoming
• Sprint 1 Assignment: work through legacy tickets (GitHub issues)

Action Items

• Schedule a recurring Frontend meeting
• Divide legacy tickets to work on
• Discuss API needs with Backend team