kittykat_005 wrote:

MasterScratch3 wrote:

rollercoasterfan wrote:

kittykat_005 wrote:

rollercoasterfan wrote:

MasterScratch3 wrote:

rollercoasterfan wrote:

kittykat_005 wrote:

Just give them a test or something, and the 1-3 people that fail are fired. Eh???

xD What kind of test would that be?

rollercoasterfan wrote:

kittykat_005 wrote:

Just give them a test or something, and the 1-3 people that fail are fired. Eh???

xD What kind of test would that be?

I think it should be more than 3 people that have to leave and to make it more fair it will only be the people that aren't active we will wait a week and we will see who is on whoever isn't on for that week has to leave

Well, I can comment on everybody's profile and see if they still want to be active.

They need to know that they need to follow the thread and be active at least 3-4 times a week, maybe more.

Maybe, it should vary! Like, the heads get to decide the test for xis/xir group! (I use xis and xir as appose to his and her)

Okay. Who have you not seen recently? I'll set up a post like I did for the heads and give a link to everybody who we haven't recently seen.

It will take a while so copy and paste your alert
Cutpuss, DogQueenGirl, _____venomous, NiTiGStudios , gerogeskey, ev3coolexit987654, epic404, BioHazardZero, Coder11000 , Critic2100, HardClaw57, Hamish52, elvin12, PrincessPandaLover, Gold Ping and aleynessansonnet

Also, should I go ahead and choose my test for my group?

MasterScratch3 wrote:

It will take a while so copy and paste your alert
Cutpuss, DogQueenGirl, _____venomous, NiTiGStudios , gerogeskey, ev3coolexit987654, epic404, BioHazardZero, Coder11000 , Critic2100, HardClaw57, Hamish52, elvin12, PrincessPandaLover, Gold Ping and aleynessansonnet

aleynesansonnet wrote:

Will advertisers count? We don't have much to do in the thread

kittykat_005 wrote:

Also, should I go ahead and choose my test for my group?

aleynesansonnet wrote:

Will advertisers count? We don't have much to do in the thread

rollercoasterfan wrote:

MasterScratch3 wrote:

It will take a while so copy and paste your alert
Cutpuss, DogQueenGirl, _____venomous, NiTiGStudios , gerogeskey, ev3coolexit987654, epic404, BioHazardZero, Coder11000 , Critic2100, HardClaw57, Hamish52, elvin12, PrincessPandaLover, Gold Ping and aleynessansonnet

DogQueenGirl quit, ev3coolexit987654 has been around quite often, as well as Critic2100 (but on a different account) and Hamish752. I believe HardClaw also left as well.

aleynesansonnet wrote:

Will advertisers count? We don't have much to do in the thread

Of course! However, since the movie isn't close to finished, trailers and such can't really be created yet. And once the movie is finished and shared, you will help by getting the word out.

kittykat_005 wrote:

Also, should I go ahead and choose my test for my group?

I beg your pardon?

MasterScratch3 wrote:

What tests are you talking about the test is about wether you are active on the thread or not

rollercoasterfan wrote:

kittykat_005 wrote:

rollercoasterfan wrote:

MasterScratch3 wrote:

rollercoasterfan wrote:

kittykat_005 wrote:

Just give them a test or something, and the 1-3 people that fail are fired. Eh???

xD What kind of test would that be?

rollercoasterfan wrote:

kittykat_005 wrote:

Just give them a test or something, and the 1-3 people that fail are fired. Eh???

xD What kind of test would that be?

I think it should be more than 3 people that have to leave and to make it more fair it will only be the people that aren't active we will wait a week and we will see who is on whoever isn't on for that week has to leave

Well, I can comment on everybody's profile and see if they still want to be active.
They need to know that they need to follow the thread and be active at least 3-4 times a week, maybe more.

Maybe, it should vary! Like, the heads get to decide the test for xis/xir group! (I use xis and xir as appose to his and her)

Okay. Who have you not seen recently? I'll set up a post like I did for the heads and give a link to everybody who we haven't recently seen.

rollercoasterfan wrote:

I don't think we're doing tests. It's a bit much.

REPUBLICREEPER wrote:

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makethebrainhappy wrote:

Your all establishing yourselves as the workers but when really I don't see my assignments getting done PEOPLE HOP TO IT!

REPUBLICREEPER wrote:

makethebrainhappy wrote:

Your all establishing yourselves as the workers but when really I don't see my assignments getting done PEOPLE HOP TO IT!

um… I suck A ton at programming, what should I create art of? xD

makethebrainhappy wrote:

Folks I've made a decision

I'm going to be the only one giving out the assignments from now on. We aren't getting anything done and my managers and I just aren't on the same page. Actually, no ones on the same page. I'm sorry for the confusion.


Saying that I'd like to give out assignments.

I need written scripts for the narrators done for

PART 1- The Interface
PART 2- The Scratch Team and The Moderators
PART 3- The Programming Language
PART 4- The Community


The Interface can include a evaluation of the front page and how it greets new users. I'd like things about the welcoming committee, the mentoring committee, the about page, and the help page in this written script/

The Scratch Team and The Moderators is about the ST and what they do. I'd like a list of all the team members included. I'd like also a little summary of the scratch moderators RETIRED program and the scratch mentor program.

Nerdy things and projects

This is about studios and the forums. You can show different summer camps and other different things which are highlights around the community.


The Second thing is that I'd like to conduct an activity check~! Say here if your here! Please raise your hand if you aren't here.


Sincerely,
Makethebrainhappy

There are many members of the Scratch Team, including the following:

Abdulrahman Idlbi (adlogi)
Andrew Fader (andrevan)
Anne C. Feldman (Kibii)
Carl Bowman (designerd)
Champika Fernando (Champ99)
Christan Balch (ceebee)
Chinua Shaw (Chinuaearl)
Chris Willis-Ford (cwillisf)
Eric Schilling (speakvisually)
Gaia Carini (carinig)
Joren Lauwers (JSO)
Kasia Chmielinski (petrichord)
Matthew Taylor (mewtaylor)
Michelle Chung (mchung)
Mitchel Resnick (mres)
Natalie Rusk (natalie)
Ray Schamp (raimondious)
Ricarose Roque (ricarose)
Sayamindu Dasgupta (sdg1)
Shane M. Clements (grokblah)
Tim Mickel (tmmit)
(RjLance)
(chrisg)
(thisandagain)
(codubee)
These people in the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab worked “in an interactive, iterative, loosely-organized style, with each team member contributing to many different parts of the project (Scratch), whether it be the online platform, site, or the program itself.”

Brian Silverman (brians)
Linda Garmon
Paula Bontá (pico)
These people of the Playful Invention Company “contributed to design, development, and exploration of new directions.” They also help moderate the website.

Andrea Saxman (pteropus)
Annie Whitehouse (achouse)
Christina Huang (AgentPineapple)
Dalton Miner (Harakou)
Franchette Viloria (cheddargirl)
Jolie Castellucci (FredDog)
Mark Goff (Paddle2See)
Megan Haddadi (haddadi)
Sarah Otts (scmb1)
These people help coordinate the Scratch online community.

Also, Yasmin Kafai (Univ. of Pennsylvania) and her research group conduct research studies with Scratch.

Previous Members

These are people who were previously part of the Scratch Team, but have retired and moved onto other projects.

Amon Millner
Amos Blanton (Lightnin)
Andrés Monroy-Hernández (andresmh)
Eric Rosenbaum (ericr)
Jay Silver (jay)
Jens Moenig (Jens)
John Maloney (johnm
Karen Brennan (karenb)
Tian Mi (taranir)
Tony Hwang
(fullmoon)

Scratch Mentors is a program put in to replace the ended Community Moderators program. It is known that the program is by invitation from the Scratch Team only, and Scratch Mentors have their own discussion forum. Eventually, it's possible that the forums will show Scratch Mentors as their rank when posting.


“ We decided to retire the community moderators program because we want to create a new role with a different focus – less on moderation, and more on helping Scratchers make awesome stuff (both with “Scratch the programming tool” and in “Scratch the community”). As some have already seen from the discussion forum pull down menus, part of the program will be called “Scratch Mentors.” We're working on co-creating it with the first cohort of Scratch mentors now. Part of their role will be focused on supporting other ways for Scratchers to contribute to the community (i.e. helping Scratchers get un-stuck when working on challenging projects, or helping maintain and improve Scratch design studios, for example. ) Becoming a community moderator was a way for a few Scratchers to contribute to Scratch and the Scratch community. Soon there will be many more ways for Scratchers to help out - which is something that Scratchers have told us they want for a very long time. ”
– Lightnin, on behalf of the Scratch Team

Tasks

It is still quite unknown exactly what the mentors do, but mentor ErnieParke wrote the following:

“ Mentors do quite a bit, to be truthful. Primarily at the moment, we give the ST feedback on issues they've been working on. For example, we're currently talking about what Scratch Mentors/Helpers should be. We're also given the dual-responsibility of helping Scratchers, and we work on site-wide projects (SDS's, for example). ”
– ErnieParke, October 12, 2013

Publicly Released Projects

On April Fools' Day 2014, the Scratch Mentors and Scratch Team released their first collaboration, which was the day's pranks. Scratch Mentors helped contribute by giving the Scratch Team ideas for the day, creating projects, helping find projects for the featured prank studios, and other various tasks.

On April 22, 2014, the second collaboration between the Scratch Team and Scratch Mentors was released, called the Scripts Team. Scratch Mentors helped by discussing various aspects of the program with the Scratch Team, giving ideas for various aspects of the helper program, thinking of ideas, and creating projects to help with the rollout.

In late 2014, the Scratch Mentors announced an unofficial series of projects with the hint, “??????? ???????”. Users had to guess what letters the question marks were to find out the title. On March 26, 2015, it was revealed it was “Scratch Mystery” and the first part was released. The series revolve around the mystery of who kidnapped Scratch Cat as Tera discovers when she arrives for her appointment. The first part can be viewed here.

Scratch Helper Groups

The Scratch Mentors also collaborate with the Scratch Team to create and maintain Scratch Helper Groups. Scratch Helper Groups are a way for normal Scratchers to get involved and help out the Scratch community without having any extra role that they were invited to. There are currently two Scratch Helper Groups active at this moment.

Welcoming Committee

Main article: Welcoming Committee

The logo of the Welcoming Committee.
The Welcoming Committee is one of the two Scratch Helper Groups. Although this group was not created by the Scratch Mentors, they help maintain the studio, as most of the mentors curate the studio and keep it running. The Welcoming Committee is an official studio that was created by the Scratch Team in 2012, and it is used to welcome new Scratchers and answer any questions that they may have. You can join by submitting a project to the studio that welcomes New Scratchers and having a curator add it for you. Once your project is in the studio, you are officially a member of the Scratch Welcoming Committee, but becoming a member does not mean you become a curator.

Scripts Team

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The Scripts Team is the other Scratch Helper Group which is now retired. It is a studio where anybody can submit a link to their project in the comments of the studio if they need help with scripting in it. A member of the studio will then help them solve the scripting problem. To join, you used to have to make a project that explains how to do something in Scratch, and a Scratch Mentor would review your project and accept you as a member if they thought you would be a good member of the studio. But, the joining process has changed since then.

“ At the start of this helper group, the Scripts Team member had two tasks: (1) help curate the Scripts Workshop and (2) help Scratchers with their projects. We want to you to continue doing the first task of helping curate the Scripts Workshop. However, in helping Scratchers with their projects, we want everyone to be able to participate in that, regardless if you are a Scripts Team member or not. (We understand that many discussed this point.) Rather than discouraging potential helpers who are not members, we would like to ask Scripts Team members to help Scratchers help each other—in addition to helping Scratchers directly. Think of the role as a “facilitator of helping.” By helping Scratchers help, they can point Scratchers to resources, make additional suggestions, and find people to help answer questions. ”
– ricarose

Other groups

Another group known as the Extension Developers Group was created as part of an early-adopter program for extensions, this group had private access to the Extension Developer's Forum before it was phased out.

Selection

Currently, not much is known about the selection process other then the fact that members are chosen by the Scratch Team. It is known that once chosen, future Scratch Mentors will receive a comment on one of their projects or their profile page by a Scratch Team member. This comment will ask if the user would like to be a Scratch Mentor, and if the answer is yes, they will become one.

Current Members

About every several months, a few selected Scratchers will receive an invitation from the Scratch Team asking them if they would like to become a Scratch Mentor. If the user asked accepts, then they will become a Scratch Mentor. At the same time when new mentors are being chosen, the Scratch Team does a check-up with all of the current mentors asking them if they would like to continue having their role. It is a simple checkup done by the Scratch Team, and they just ask if they would like to continue, as well as anything else requested by the Scratch Team. On October 12, 2013, the first three mentors were announced and the program was officially released. The three original mentors that were invited were ErnieParke, LiFaytheGoblin, and P110. In late May 2014, 2 new mentors were chosen. The 2 people that were invited to become Scratch Mentors were dolphingirl36, and EH7meow.

Scratch Mentors Forum


An image of the Scratch Mentors forum.
At the top of the main forums is a forum for Scratch Mentors. Like the Moderator Forum, this forum is only accessible by the Scratch Team and Scratch Mentors, but it behaves like a regular forum in the Scratch Forums. Mainly, it is used for discussions about various Scratch programs between the Scratch Team and the Scratch Mentors.

Scratch Helper Groups (forum)

Main article: Scratch Helper Groups (forum)
Currently, the Scratch Helper Groups forum is moderated not just by moderators and the Scratch Team, but also by the Scratch Mentors. Along with the responsibility, Scratch Mentors and the Scratch Team are the only people who can post a topic in the Scratch Helper Group forums, but anyone is able to post in this forum.