Getting ready for Day 2 of the Doccom Sprint at Google in Mountain View and sitting here reflecting on our first day of sprinting.

Google was gracious in providing us a space to sprint. The weather here has been gorgeous as usual. California in June is the best place to be.. (I'm prejudiced of course.. ). The vegetarian sandwich at lunchtime was sublime, as were the homemade chocolate chip cookies.

We started the day with a round of introductions and then split up into two groups.. "GetPaid" and "The Doc Side" (a la Erik Rose's "come on over to the doc side")

The documentation team created a circle of chairs and leaned in to discuss some hardcore doc issues as the "GetPaid" team assessed the tasks needing to be done.. and who wanted to tackle what.. After a bit they broke out and started doing what they do best..

In the end we had a group of five or so guys working on unit tests (Dave Fowler (GSoC student), Eric Steele, David Brenneman, Brian Gershon, David Siedband (siebo).

Bill Schindler (bitranch) and Stephen Hindle (mech422) will be working on thecheckout wizard with Kapil T (hazmat)

Chris Johnson (cjj), Veda (vedawns) and myself are working on the UI aspect of the GetPaid system.

I had some "battery" issues with my camera but I was able to grab a few pictures

http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowwrite/sets/72157600498074853/

and one movie at the Welcome Dinner.. Francis Ford Coppola I am not..

http://video.google.com/videouploadfinished?docid=3322331461815857289&cid=788f68e9d249e39b