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Agenda for the meeting on June 2nd 2015

Updates from Ashish

• What was covered since last meeting
• Dev environment setup - issues seem to have resolved (http://59.99.250.70/)
• Installation of Mandrill extension
• Develop a sample extension in CiviCRM and demo
• Configure US phone number - to get call detail records - in progress
Items to work on

• understand the Mandrill extension for CiviCRM and how callbacks work to update Civi
• understand the use of APIs in CiviCRM to update records/data
• edit phone activity report/form in CiviCRM through API calls
Design Discussion Ravi & Joe Murray

• Call detail records - details that need to be captured
• Outbound calls
• Inbound calls
• Plivo/Twilio extensions for Civi , draft spec for the extension under development
• Dev Environment setup
• SSH access to CiviCRM server for Murray, McLaughlin, details to be provided by Ashish
• Review - either in this meeting or one McLaughlin is scheduled to have for GSOC participants
• Any other items that the team would like to cover

The meeting notes for 2nd June 2015 are:

• Joe Murray had invited Pradeep Nayak, member of JMA consulting to be a part of this meeting to help with CiviCRM.
• Pradeep Nayak is from Goa Engineering college, has worked with JMA for more than 4 years. He has been instrumental in the development of the Mandrill extension for CiviCRM. He also is the lead developer in the accounting module in CiviCRM. Thank you Pradeep for joining the meeting.
• Joe Murray walked the team through the steps involved in creating an extension. He explained the mandrill extension for CiviCRM. He recommended using Singleton inheritance for BAO objects to use a single thread to synchronize data in CiviCRM, and the use of design patterns that was implemented for the mandrill app as it is a best practice that is followed in the CiviCRM world.
• Ashish to map the freeswitch CDR fields with the phone activity form, and make recommendations on any new custom fields to be added.
• Joe Murray advised Ashish to contact Pradeep Nayak for any help related to building the CiviCRM extension. Pradeep Nayak shared his skype and whatsapp credentials with the team.
• The team would continue the rest of the items on the agenda, on Thursday (04-Jun-2015)

The student took a full time job starting July 1. Although they were doing fine, and they promised to work evenings and weekends to complete the project, Google staff when asked about this said that the project should be failed as unlikely to succeed. I'm not sure if it is based on their prior experience with students taking jobs (there are lots of suggestions for mentors that this is a problem) or whether it is based on students breaking the commitment made when signing up to be available a certain number of hours per week.