PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

March 20, 2008

An online version of this report is available here.

Here’s a pie chart representation of the time distribution.

I’ll be out of the office March 27-30 (Thursday through Sunday), with little or no email contact.

Platform-Issues

Meetings

· Met with John regarding piccolo/nuclear physics

· Continue to collaborate with John intermittently

Greenhouse

· Bug reports on Linux, attempted quick fix didn’t work.

Discharge Lamps

· Photon speed issues; we’ll interview on discharge lamps and lasers.

· Interviews may raise issues, or prove these suitable for replacing main-site version.

· Discharge lamps needs to be internally renamed before deploy to main-site.

Upcoming Work

I'll be out of town March 27-30. 

1. Platform issues.
2. Investigate new sim ideas.  Literature search on existing Membrane Transport sims.  Feasibility test for the Tomkins in Wonderland special relativity idea?
3. Work on any physics-related CCK issues (which do not require prioritization)
4. Collaborate with John Blanco as necessary
5. Post new Lasers and Neon Lights & Other Discharge Lamps after Archie interviews (may also receive minor update requests)
6. Greenhouse has trouble launching under Linux
7. Sorting out and prioritizing (non-cck) unfuddle issues.  There are about 50 tickets currently assigned to me (not including the 50 or so CCK tickets).  These deserve some initial triage.