Preparing for our next meeting.

It's our second weekly meeting coming up tomorrow and gratefully I have Tuesdays off so I can get stuck into some good ol' preparation. We also have our first weekly meeting with Luke, and luckily all the times sort of managed to fit together well. Luke had to shift his consultation times around a bit for us though! But thankfully that wasn't a problem.

So our last meeting was basically an introduction to our project-- I talked about who we were ("AlphaLogic") and what we were going to do, and how we were going to do it--fitting into the timeline, etc. It wasn't just me talking though, we had a good discussion about the overall project timeline and a broad overview of our project's core components. I think by the end of the meeting everyone knew how the weekly meetings were going to work, they knew what was expected of them, both in terms of out-of-uni communication and workloads, and generally what direction this project was going to head in.

This next meeting tomorrow is going to be some more in-depth planning, discussing in concrete terms what we're going to do, and when. I will be making some deadlines for certain aspects of the project so that we keep the ball rolling from week to week. I will be assigning tasks to every member and following up on them in the next meeting.

I personally think that our project is very interesting which makes us a prime candidate for students without a group yet to target us. So I have a feeling that either I'm going to be turning away a few people (I really only want people who are enthusiastic, and if they don't have a group by the fourth week how enthusiastic can they be?) or maybe accepting another member if they meet the criteria. What I don't want to happen is someone to be lazy (or ignorant) and get assigned automatically to our group that doesn't want to do what we're doing (either idea-wise or workload-wise) -- it's going to make it harder for us and it definitely won't be the optimal choice for them.

More later,

Jordan