Week 1

This page presents the assignment for week 1 of Fab Academy 2020: “Project Management”.

For “Principle and Practices” assignment check the Hand sketches and Planning pages.

To do list:

Individual

Plan and sketch a potential final project
Work through a git tutorial
Build a personal site in the class archive describing you and your final project

Week 1 "hero shot":

Figure 0: Personal site home page

0 Agreement

**Fab Academy Student Agreement**

*The Fab Academy is responsible for:*

- Teaching principles and practices of digital fabrication

- Arranging lectures, recitations, meetings, and events for the class

- Evaluating and providing feedback on student work

- Offering clear standards for completing assignments

- Certifying and archiving student progress

- Supervising class preparation

- Reviewing prospective students, instructors, and labs

- Providing central staff and infrastructure for students, instructors, and labs

- Fund-raising for costs not covered by student tuition

- Managing and reporting on the program's finances, results, and impacts

- Publicizing the program

- Promoting a respectful environment free of harassment and discrimination

*I am a Fab Academy student, responsible for:*

- Attending class lectures and participating in reviews

- Developing and documenting projects assigned to introduce and demonstrate skills

- Honestly reporting on my work, and appropriately attributing the work of others

- Working safely

- Leaving workspaces in the same (or better) condition than I found them

- Participating in the upkeep of my lab

- Ensuring that my tuition to cover local and central class costs is covered

- Promoting a respectful environment free of harassment and discrimination

Signed by committing this file in my repository,

Léon Reboul

1 How to manage a project with Gitlab

In this section we will go trough a step by step tutorial on how to use Gitlab for project management.

1.1 Register to Gitlab

Step 1

Using your favorite web browser, go to Gitlab Home page, you should arrive to a web page similar to the one in figure 1.

Figure 1: Gitlab Home Page

Step 2

In top right corner of the home page click on “Register”, you should arrive to a web page similar to the one in figure 2.

Figure 2: Gitlab Register Page

Step 3

Enter your First name, Last name, Username, email, and password.

Read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and then accept them. Click on the CAPTCHA checker and then on Register.

You should arrive to a web page similar to the one in figure 3.

Figure 3: Gitlab Profile page

Figure 4: Gitlab Profile page

Step 4

Choose one role from the role menu and answer the question “who will be using Gitlab”, then click the “Get Started!” button.

You should arrive to a web page similar to the one in figure 4.

Figure 5: Gitlab project dashboard

Step 5

To confirm your account, go to the email you used in figure 2, open “Confirmation instructions” from gitlab@mg.gitlab.com and then click on “Confirm your account”.