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A futile attempt to recruit additional developers from the [[wikitech]] community was made on 13 January 2014. A prospective software development trainee and business partner made an appointment to receive on-the-job training at Inclumedia's Catlett, VA headquarters in setting up his MediaWiki development environment and test wiki and fixing a few bugs under Larson's mentorship. The trainee called in sick on 14 January 2014, then cancelled out for 18 January 2014 citing a last-minute church obligation, then postponed from 25 January to 26 January, saying that he'd looked at the wrong date on his calendar, then cancelled out for 26 January, citing yet another church obligation, then cancelled out again at the last minute on 27 January, saying his cash flow situation prevented him from paying the $80 for a portable hard drive and Ethernet cable needed to get started. Larson then fired him for excessive flakiness and decided to pursue Inclupedia development singlehandedly. | A futile attempt to recruit additional developers from the [[wikitech]] community was made on 13 January 2014. A prospective software development trainee and business partner made an appointment to receive on-the-job training at Inclumedia's Catlett, VA headquarters in setting up his MediaWiki development environment and test wiki and fixing a few bugs under Larson's mentorship. The trainee called in sick on 14 January 2014, then cancelled out for 18 January 2014 citing a last-minute church obligation, then postponed from 25 January to 26 January, saying that he'd looked at the wrong date on his calendar, then cancelled out for 26 January, citing yet another church obligation, then cancelled out again at the last minute on 27 January, saying his cash flow situation prevented him from paying the $80 for a portable hard drive and Ethernet cable needed to get started. Larson then fired him for excessive flakiness and decided to pursue Inclupedia development singlehandedly. | ||
Development resumed on 23 January 2014. The development process has thus far spawned many abandoned development branches that resulted in complete code rewritings, as various approaches were found to be ill-conceived or unworkable. On 12 April 2014, [[Augustine "Phoenix" Blakely Larson]] was brought on board as co-entrepreneur and software developer. She | Development resumed on 23 January 2014. The development process has thus far spawned many abandoned development branches that resulted in complete code rewritings, as various approaches were found to be ill-conceived or unworkable. On 12 April 2014, [[Augustine "Phoenix" Blakely Larson]] was brought on board as co-entrepreneur and software developer. She favored a direct approach to Inclupedia development that for the most part avoids potentially distracting side projects; when it was suggested to her that [[ChildWiki]] be an Inclupedia prototype that would mirror and supplement [[BoyWiki]] the way Inclupedia will mirror and supplement Wikipedia, she noted, "I also think it would be good to start small, though I wouldn't want to put off the 'real' work for very long... If you have experience with wikis I would also question what the purpose of starting small would be? Why not just jump right into Inclupedia?" | ||
Augustine resigned from Inclumedia in May 2014 after deciding software development wasn't her cup of tea. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[mw:Inclupedia]] | *[[mw:Inclupedia]] | ||