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[Kevin Godby <godbyk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> So as most of you should know, not only was 48 hours a chance for us to
> actually get some stuff done and teach new people about the manual project,
> but it was also a chance to test out some new stuff, like ClassBot, Lernid,
> Ground Control etc.
> I've told the heads of these projects that I'd get some feedback from our
> team, both the teachers and the students, and then email a summary to them.
> So, if anyone has any bugs, feature requests, questions or anything to do
> with Lernid, ClassBot or Ground Control, please reply to this thread with
> your feedback and I'll make sure it gets to the right place!

Random tidbits that come to mind:

1. Upon starting Lernid, the IRC and slide panes were collapsed.  All
the panes should start opened a bit (or make it simple and let them
each have a quarter of the screen initially).

2. The Edit > Preferences menu option does nothing.

3. When regard to the [SLIDE 1] commands provided by the instructor:
It'd be nice if there were a [SLIDE NEXT] and [SLIDE PREVIOUS] so I
don't have to keep track of which slide number I'm on.

4. I agree with Josh about the question queue.  I had set up an alert
in xchat to ding when someone said QUESTION in the -chat room.  But
even better would be if the bot parsed those for me and presented them
in a private chat to me as they came in.

5. Along with setting the channel topic and giving voice to the
instructor, it may be helpful for it to say [SLIDE 1] automatically to
start the slide presentation. This would've saved us a bit of grief.

6. It looked like my slides in Lernid were blurry, but others' looked
fine.  Not sure why that was.  (I generated mine with XeLaTeX and the
others came from OOo, I think. But beyond that, I don't know what the
differences are.)

7. Might be nice for the classbot to give voice to the upcoming
speaker about 5 minutes before their session is scheduled to start.
Just to ease the transition and reduce anxiety ("Will this thing
work?").

8. Could be handy if the bot privately messaged me when my time is
almost up, too, so I can make sure to wrap things up on time.
Probably a bit of feature creep, but I don't think it'd be too
obtrusive.

9. There was some confusion in -chat as to whether one's question had
been recognized. Perhaps there could be some feedback on that.

10. If I remember correctly, the text color in Lernid was light grey
on white. I'm not sure if this is due to my theme or what, but the low
contrast made it difficult to read.

That's all that comes to mind at the moment.

--Kevin