Internship Project Diary

User Survey: Drammenstav.no

UiA - Quiet Room somewhere on Kristiansand Campus

Date: 11.11.24
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
Tasks:

• Begin drafting a user survey proposal

Date: 15.11.24
Time: 09:00 - 19:00

Weekly Meeting:

• Review the questions in the user survey

  1. Ensure the questions are within scope

  2. Divide the survey into two parts:

     1. User survey within scope

     2. Drammen Stake's Membership Survey on information flow usage and habits

  3. Jaime will contact the first interview subject over the weekend and send emails to 3 participants out of town

• Video interview for Internship Video 2

  1. Video recording of a support worker from their side

  2. The video file will be shared with Jaime

Tasks:

• Drafting the user survey and starting the membership survey (separate Google Form)

• Updating the website (jaimemontanares.no)

Product Delivery v. Alpha

UiA - Quiet Room somewhere on Kristiansand Campus

Date: 04.11.24

Time:

Tasks:

• Create product presentation and refine a few diagrams.

Date: 05.11.24

Time: 18:45-19:05

Tasks:

•     Product delivery and presentation.

Date: 07.11.24

Time: 12:00-20:00

Tasks: jaimemontanares.no

•     Manually translate the website into English.

•     Set up a subdomain for the English version.

•     Converted journals into paragraphs on the same page and removed links to Google Docs in the English version.

Date: 08.11.24

Time: 13:00-14:00

Tasks: Weekly Standup

•     Evaluation and review of further follow-up.

Jaime:

1.     Create user survey.

2.     Interview subjects: 4 identified.

3.     Add the calendar back to the youth page.

4.     Check if he has contact information for the interview subjects.

5.     Project interview postponed for a week.

Benjamin:

•     Create test calendar.

•     www.jaimemontanares.no - Feedback from a professional on a potential employer.

Time: 14:00-20:00

Tasks: jaimemontanares.no

1.     Text improvements.

2.     Add experience to the Competence Market -> create a dedicated page.

3.     Enhance work experience and projects on the About Me page.

www.jaimemontanares.no

An office at Slettheiveien 80 - Kristiansand Branch church building  

Date: 23-24.10.2024  

Time: 13:00 - 22:30  

Tasks:  

• Connect my own domain with the existing Google Sites website.  

• Improved some icons, text, and images on jaimemontanares.no  

• Created slide for Status 2 seminar  

• Learned Mermaid  

• UML Diagrams: Drawio.com  

• Sitemap  

• Use Case  

UiA - Quiet Room somewhere on Kristiansand Campus  

Date: 25.10.2024  

Time: 08:00 - 18:00  

Tasks:  

• Seminar: Status 2  

• Weekly stand-up video meeting at 13:00  

Productivity and Distractions 

UiA - Quiet Room somewhere on Kristiansand Campus
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An office at Slettheiveien 80 - Kristiansand Branch church building

Date: 26-27.09.2024
Tasks:
Independent work and production.
Weekly stand-up is canceled due to travel.

jaime.montanares.no
My personal profile page has been quite empty and underdeveloped. It doesn’t feel natural for me to share about myself online. Despite my broad interest in all things technology, social media and its invasion of privacy have never appealed to me.
I put in some work to add information but haven’t published it yet. Still waiting to find or obtain a profile picture I’m comfortable posting.

drammenstav.no
Not much progress on implementation today.
However, I did spend some time reviewing language and rules for the privacy page. There’s a template suggestion built into WP, but I’ve compared it to what exists on the official Church pages, and it’s significant enough that I believe this should be delegated to someone with more responsibility within the organization.

IS-302 Internship Project Course:
Starting to test out different diagrams and other visual aids to document my understanding for the final report.
This is being done now so I can take an informal introspective look at what the plan was, how the scope has changed, and what remains to be done, but mostly why.
Even though I explore other solutions, I keep returning to https://www.drawio.com/.

Distractions
This journal is about a project and what we learn about production work, as well as the preliminary, ongoing, and post-investigation. But what might be under-communicated in daily production life is the dead time, personal distractions shifted to natural and personal priorities. This is something I have felt and noticed at times as a student. It’s not easy, especially with other courses where you want to succeed by acquiring new knowledge and applying it. Often, they provide support, as I am studying PHP in another course this semester. With each module, I feel like I understand more about what I’m looking at when using the WP platform. At the same time, there’s a certain time pressure, as the internship project has a very short window to succeed in production. My mind craves knowledge, while another part of me craves productivity.

“Things take time” was something we were told in military service. This has also been very true in the working world. The truth doesn’t make it any less frustrating for a lone developer sitting in an office hidden somewhere on campus or in a church building.
Sometimes I wonder how different it would be if I could work with others on a project or at a workplace. There are both good and not-so-good sides to that too. The shared knowledge and discussions about how things can be done are only positive, but how much more might I get distracted by chatting about everything and nothing? In my previous career, this wasn’t a problem—we had very clear and firm rules for production, and when you follow the rhythm of a physical production department with mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical machines, it’s not something you think about. “Things take time,” “I can’t drive faster than the truck allows,” or “let’s slow down so we don’t hurt ourselves”—these are golden.

New saying, by an older adult student: “Fuck it, there’s a new day tomorrow” - Jaime.

Finally Momentum

An office at Slettheiveien 80 - Kristiansand Branch church building

Date: 13.09.24
Time: 08:00 - 20:00
Tasks:

• Weekly video conference with Internship Contact

• WordPress

• Publishing journals

WordPress
I made another attempt to get WP working locally.
I think we’ll put the goal of developing Drammenstav.no locally on hold.
I’ll continue to explore this for possible success with jaimemontanares.no.
After gaining access to drammenstav.no, we implemented a few plugins together and created some test pages during the meeting.
I then explored some alternative solutions for ICS handling that better fit our needs.
Suggestions were found and shared via the shared channel.
Then, I created some simple proposals for other pages, which were published privately (admin view only).
Finally, I updated the homepage with a new image and wording.
Drammenstav.no

Meeting Summary - (13.09.24)
Time: 09:00 - 10:00
Key points from the meeting:

Development Progress:
There have been delays in site development due to challenges with secure password sharing. This has now been resolved, and development can proceed.

Shared Login:
Everyone now has access to Drammenstav.no for development. The main focus is on security and compliance with privacy regulations. It was decided to close the comments section, as it is not considered necessary.

Website Structure and Content Prioritization:
The initial focus is on static pages, while dynamic functions are deprioritized for now.
Priority topics for publication are temple information and the Stake calendar.

Plugins:
Plugin installation requires prior approval.
The work follows a zero-budget principle.
Jetpack and UpdraftPlus are installed and function as backup solutions.

Calendar Solution:
Discussed integration of "The Events Calendar" with the option for synchronization via CSV file.
The calendar will be updated with temple dates and other events, with quarterly maintenance.

Design and Templates:
The website uses the standard "Twenty Twenty-Four" theme.
It will be explored whether there are smarter and more customized solutions that can be implemented.
The focus is on a cohesive design.

Further Work:
Website development will continue throughout the workday.

Progress

An office at Slettheiveien 80 - Kristiansand Branch church building

Date: 04.09.24
Time: 14:00 - 19:00
Tasks:

• Publishing journals

• Updates

During the internship period, I will be alternating between several areas where I will be working. Sometimes for practical reasons related to the nature of the project task, but mostly due to the high competition for finding a suitable quiet corner at the UiA Campus, I will occasionally be at the church building in Slettheia.

The church building is largely quiet during regular working hours, facilitating evening activities for church members and friends. Most church meetings are around the weekend, especially on Sunday, also known as the Sabbath.

On this specific day, I am working on texts and planning what to communicate on Friday.

Benjamin and I have decided on weekly video meetings to update each other and discuss questions and suggestions. We eventually chose WhatsApp.

UiA - Quiet Room somewhere on Kristiansand Campus

Date: 05.09.24
Time: 08:00 - 13:00 and 18:00 - 20:00
Tasks:

• Working on the Project Task

• Figma

Today, most of the time was spent researching the wording of potential policies for website development by Stakes. I also spent considerable time comparing other websites with our ideas, especially noting their choices in features and appearance. The quality varies greatly.

The plan is to discuss my findings during tomorrow’s meeting, as well as to receive advice and guidance on the project pages and what I can present about the organization.

WordPress with web hosting setup isn’t easy, that’s for sure.

UiA - Quiet Room somewhere on Kristiansand Campus

Date: 23.08.24
Time: 08:15 - 16:42

Already late for a birthday celebration, and here I am, documenting that there has been learning and some progress.

From a previous phone meeting between me and Benjamin Weggersen, it was suggested and decided that I should use WordPress.org as an open-source solution for the project task. I had hoped to apply it today to create this website.

It didn’t work out. It’s not easy to feel smart when all it takes is succeeding once at something productive to feel the complete opposite. It brings up a lot of emotions when trying to be productive with things one doesn’t yet master.

Received a tip from Armand about simpler formatting. For some reason, it was hard to make things easy this time. But finally, I think it was around lunchtime, I bit the bullet, got over my pride, and used Google Drive, Sites, and other tools to set things up today.

WordPress will have to wait until tomorrow. Meanwhile, at least I have something to refer to.