Shorter update this month -- I was VERY late on last month's, so it's only been a bit over 2 weeks :-/

For our PublicLab.org repository: 7 authors have pushed 29 commits to master and 88 commits to all branches. On master, 59 files have changed and there have been 492 additions and 1,362 deletions

Above -- our graph now shows 90 contributors to the project.This of course doesn't count coding happening in adjacent repositories like:

• https://github.com/publiclab/plotsbot
• https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor
• https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-blurred-location

New features

A few new things have gone live -- a beta release of the Inline Rich Wiki editor, which you can activate using the green "pencil" icon on all wiki pages. It looks like this:

There's also a beta new Questions form, which looks like this:

Summer of Code

Just to recap, students in our Summer of Code program have been cranking away; you can see their planning issues here:

• For @stella: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/1421
• For @Ashan: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/1438
• For @mridulnagpal: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-blurred-location/issues/1
• For @ryzokuken: https://github.com/publiclab/plotsbot/milestone/2
• For @ccpandhare: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/23
• For @david-days has also added: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/1449 (David's a mentor but has an ambitious project of his own!)

Student project updates

First, @mridulnagpal writes:

Live demo working at https://mridulnagpal.github.io/leaflet-blurred-location/examples/

Input listeners added which changes the map locations

A new feature called precision added and many new methods with tests added

An element integrated which shows the current location of map in text using geocoding API

Will start working with Graticule plugin now, and integrate it to the map.

Then, @stella writes:

I have worked on a method called notify_tag_added() that is used to email users of new tagging on notes they don't already follow. I have also written tests to ensure that the method is working properly.

Demos to show: You can pull from my branch and play around with the emails(https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/pull/1481)

Next steps: Move to phase 2, where I will be working on active jobs.

Also, @ryzokuken writes:

On the bot project, I have come close to finish up the FTO feature, which would allow users to check out the current first-timers-only issues for any publiclab repositories. As this was the first behaviour implemented using the new and shiny promise-based model, I did find a few shortcomings and have patched them and I hope we will strengthen the model quite a bit over the course of the next few PRs.

We also thought a lot over how to implement shared state/dependencies among multiple behaviours and ended up using the "factory function" approach, which I am quite satisfied with. Not to mention, the documentation has consistently grown and has become quite reliable.

We had our first new contributor recently, and they added the Travis Status badge to our README, which was super helpful.

We have been discussing recently to take away the core chatbot logic of the bot and make it a separate npm module. This would go a long way towards making the project much more successful, I think.

Next, I will start working on another feature or on a WeChat interface, whichever would be a higher priority for the organization at that point of time. Also, I feel the help behaviour needs an update.

Thanks to everybody (@ryzokuken, @stella, @ccpandhare, @mridulnagpal, @Ashan, @david-days, @ananyo2012, @Ujitha, @stevie, @liz, @icarito) for all your hard work! Please post any recent demos or completed projects in the comments.