Post on 27-Mar-2015
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2009
2010
VStar prototype for 1st Citizen Sky workshop. 3 months of spare time development from May
2009 collaboration with AAVSO staff first Citizen Sky participant: Mike Umbricht
testing, domain expertise (Brown University)
Bug fixes & changes based upon August 2009 Chicago workshop feedback.
November 2009: first WebStart deployment.
Phase 1 feature set release based on initial requirements from AAVSO.
NACAA April 2010 VStar workshop in Canberra ideas & improvements resulted from this
January 2010: AAS poster about VStar Team.
David Benn: team lead, primary developer Michael Umbricht
Testing, encouragement, ideas Weber brothers (Adam, George):
code, patches, design discussions AAVSO Staff
Sara Beck, Arne Henden, Aaron Price, Doc Kinne, Rebecca Turner, Matt Templeton, Elizabeth Waagen
Grant Foster Developer of original DOS VStar Domain expert; guiding next steps for VStar
Numerous others with good intentions sometimes, understandably, “having a life”
prevents you from doing everything you might want to do.
VStar was used to plot light curves in Australian S&T article by Alan Plummer (at NACAA workshop, Southern Gems member).
Doc Kinne (AAVSO) remarked recently that we could use more team involvement for the project’s health; I agree.
Overwhelmingly, VStar development has been and continues to be a very positive experience. On a personal note, I’ve been looking for a volunteer
software project like this for a long time.
Rebecca asked at the end of this talk: What one piece of advice would you give a team leader? My answer was: Understand your limits, defer to
those with the knowledge and experience you lack.
Still plenty to do, so feel free to join the team!
http://www.citizensky.org/teams/vstar-software-development
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/vstar/index.php?title=Development_Process
http://www.citizensky.org/sites/default/files/VStar_AAS_poster%201.pdf