Project Selection

During our recent Discord meeting, Bella, Tianlang, Willow, and I focused on selecting our open-source project. We chose Pandas as our primary target because it has a friendly community, clear contribution guidelines, and most of us have prior experience using it. We also established freeCodeCamp as our backup option. Narrowing our focus to these two projects was our primary group accomplishment this week.

Current Obstacles

We identified three specific blockers that prevent immediate progress. First, we cannot finalize our project decision until everyone is present. Second, we are currently unsure about the group’s overall proficiency and comfort level with Python. Third, we do not know if we can successfully configure the freeCodeCamp development environment on Windows, which complicates our backup plan.

Next Steps

We assigned action items to resolve these blockers before our next meeting. The group will set up the Pandas development environment, and Bella will test the program from an end-user perspective. To validate our contingency plan, Bella and Tianlang will attempt the freeCodeCamp environment setup on Windows. Finally, all members are tasked with joining the project’s Discord server by next week to establish communication channels.