Decapod Work Primer

Intro

This guide is intended to help connect someone who is not familiar with Decapod to resources to help them get oriented and working on the project.

The executive overview gives a good summary of the goals and scope of the Decapod project. For more details, the full grant document is available.

Fluid IRC channel - An open place to have conversations and where others who may have expertise can join in discussions. A good place to talk about specific work issues (i.e. coding issues, design questions, etc.)
Decapod Mailing List - Public mailing whose members include people from other organizations who have taken an interest in the project. A good place to discuss project related issues such as: high level changes to development and design, scheduling meetings, and sharing ideas and thoughts.
Skype - for voice chat and face to face meetings.
Google Calendar - A private calendar for scheduling. Members are added and removed from this as required.

Some projects members also use:

(Updated June 20, 2011)

Public Decapod Project Website - A public facing project website serving as an introduction to the project and links to latest releases. Rarely modified except for a new release.
Decapod Google Code Repository - Mercurial code repository for the project as well as file hosting. Decapod's coding work goes in here.
Decapod Bug Tracker - Report, work and squish bugs related to Decapod.
Decapod on the Fluid Project Wiki - A repository of "Current thinking" for the project. Includes user and backend workflows, designs, meeting notes, and other materials.
- Decapod Design - Current designs for the Decapod UI.
- Decapod System Diagram - Diagram showing how the back end and front end interact.