CSA updates for projects

README.md

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 Founded and maintained by John Mortensen.
 
-Open Coding Society `Pages` is a project designed to support students in their Computer Science and Software Engineering education. It offers a wide range of resources including tech talks, code examples, and educational blogs.
+Open Coding Society `Pages` is a project designed to support students in their Computer Science education. It offers a wide range of resources including tech talks, code examples, and educational blogs.
 
 This GitHub Pages repository can be customized by the blogger to support computer science learning as the student works through the pathways of using Javascript, Python/Flask, Java/Spring. It is intended to support course work for Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE), AP Computer Science Principles (APCSP or CSP), AP Computer Science 'A' (APCSA or CSA), and Computer Science Honors (CSH).
 
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 Exchange of information from this repository to you personal GitHub Pages can be done in many ways...
 
 1. sharing a file, ie: `wget "raw-link.ipynb"`
-2. creating a template from this repository
-3. creating a fork to be shared by you and team members
-4. etc.
+2. creating a template from this repository to break off into custom projects
+3. creating a fork to be shared by you and team members to contribute back to OCS `pages`
 
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 ## History
 
 This project is in its 4th revision (aka 4.0).
 
-The project was initially based on a project called Fastpages. But this project has diverged from those roots into an independent entity, in fact most things (like the build system), are completely different.  The decision to separate from Fastpages was influenced by it's deprecation by the authors.  It is believed by our community that the authors of Fastpages turned toward the support of Quatro.  After that change of direction Fastpages did not align with the Instructors's goals. Thus, Open Coding Society 'Pages' has more of a raw development and classroom blogging purpose. But, we are grateful to Fastpages for their inspiration.  But, we are grateful to Fastpages for their inspiration.
+The project was initially based on a project called Fastpages. But this project has diverged from those roots into an independent entity, in fact most things (like the build system), are completely different.  The decision to separate from Fastpages was influenced by it's deprecation by the original authors.  It is believed by our community that the authors of Fastpages turned toward the support of Quatro.  After that change of direction Fastpages did not align with the OCS `pages` goals. Thus, `pages` has more of a raw development and classroom blogging purpose. But, as we parted we were grateful to Fastpages for their inspiration.  Also, this project originations were focused around the GitHub Pages Minima theme and still uses it as a remote.
 
 ### License
 

_data/communication_system_infograph.yml

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 # Communication System Capstone Infographic
-Title: "Communication System"
-Description: "Class discussion is moving out of Slack and into the course site, next to the work it is about. Class-wide announcements, per-week chat, and a rich-text composer with emoji already ship; still to build are a thread on every assignment, 1:1 direct messages, GIFs in the composer, and Slack-style emoji reactions."
+Title: "OCSCommunication Systems"
+Description: "Students are extending the OCS communication system with chat, announcements, assignment discussions, direct messaging, calendar integration, and reusable presentation components. The work includes maintaining the real-time WebSocket service and connecting these features to the existing course site, backend APIs, security, and data model. Students will also develop the OCS SASS grammar—a small, purpose-built styling system for consistent, responsive, reusable components across the OCS GitHub Pages ecosystem."
 
 Topics:
   - title: "Class Announcements"

_data/toolchain-trail-capstone.yml

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-Title: "Toolchain Trail Capstone"
+Title: "OCS Gamified Toolchain Trail"
 TeamName: "The7Blueprints"
 Logo: "capstone/toolchain_trail_logo.jpg"
 Badge: "'Level two' game to set up tools."
-Overview: "Toolchain Trail is the second level of the OCS Onboarding Gamification project and builds upon the foundation established in Level 1, Identity Forge. Its purpose is to guide students through setting up and verifying a complete development environment for students using macOS, Windows/WSL, or Linux."
+Overview: "Students are extending the OCS onboarding system to guide students through development-environment setup and verify that their machines are ready for classroom development. The project includes a cross-platform Python verification agent, tool and project checks, GitHub identity, remediation feedback, and integration with the OCS Analytics System. Verification and gameplay results will flow into the existing Java/Spring/SQL backend, where student activity can contribute to status, grading, progress, and regression tracking. The goal is to provide students and teachers with a working-status view of development environments while connecting machine-level activity to the broader OCS learning system."
 Team: ["Hope Fune", "Anishka Sangvi", "Kailyn Sanford", "Meryl Chen", "Anika Maranthe", "Avantika Chittari", "Laya Balaji"]
 Stages: [{title: "Stage 1: Development Environment Verification", description: "Improve the existing verifyTools.sh Bash script so it can determine whether a student's development environment is properly configured.", points: ["Find the repository automatically and verify required tools, files, and project configuration.", "Give clear remediation steps and a passed, warning, or failed summary with the correct exit code.", "Keep checks secure, platform-aware, and documented in the README."]}, {title: "Stage 2: Python Onboarding Agent", description: "Replace the Bash verification script with a cross-platform Python onboarding agent that produces structured JSON for every verification.", points: ["Verify development tools, GitHub access, repository setup, and project runtime across supported platforms.", "Record structured results and connect them to each student's GitHub identity.", "Track progress, retries, and regressions to gate levels and surface students who need help."]}]
 Stations: [{name: "Terminal Town Gate", purpose: "Shell fundamentals and package management"}, {name: "Compiler Canyon Forge", purpose: "Java or Python runtime"}, {name: "Editor Isle Tower", purpose: "VS Code/Cursor and WSL configuration"}, {name: "Git Village Hall", purpose: "Git installation and configuration"}, {name: "GitHub Gateway Arch", purpose: "GitHub authentication and repository connectivity"}, {name: "Build Bridge", purpose: "Project build and runtime verification"}, {name: "Integration Summit", purpose: "Final end-to-end verification", gated: true}]

_posts/capstone/2026-08-27-communication-system-capstone.md

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-title: Communication System Capstone
-description: A capstone moving class discussion out of Slack and onto the course site — class-wide announcements, per-week chat, and a rich-text composer with emoji already shipped, with per-assignment threads, 1:1 direct messages, GIFs, Slack-style emoji reactions, and teacher moderation still to build.
+title: OCS Communication Systems
+description: Students are extending the OCS communication system with chat, announcements, assignment discussions, direct messaging, calendar integration, and reusable presentation components. The work includes maintaining the real-time WebSocket service and connecting these features to the existing course site, backend APIs, security, and data model. Students will also develop the OCS SASS grammar—a small, purpose-built styling system for consistent, responsive, reusable components across the OCS GitHub Pages ecosystem.
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