Here’s a summary of what happened at the meeting on Friday:
All of us (though John was unable to make it) had a meeting this afternoon (complete with pizza). We
discussed what I needed from everyone. I made sure that everyone had an immediate alert for at least the
Announcements section on sharepoint. I also made it a point to tell everyone I was here to help them with
their tasks and communication within the group, but I need their full support and cooperation to make it
happen.
We also split the class into 3 groups:
The first is the model group that will be concentrating on the implementation of rules in SkyNet. This
consists of Jeff and John.
The second is the network communications group that will be concentrating on improving the speed and
efficiency of the network communications. This consists of Jack, Sarah, and Eric.
The third is the view group that will be concentrating on the improvement of graphics speed and
performance in SkyNet. Right now this consists only of Luke, but more people will "shift" into this group from
the network communications group once more things get accomplished there.
Also, within each group I designated a "group manager" and a "comment manager". The group manager's
job is to report back to me any progress made, difficulties encountered, or anything that the group feels I
need to know. Between me continually asking the group for updates and the group manager telling me
what’s going on, I feel like this system of communication should be a good method of finding out what I need
to know, or at least a good start. The group managers are: model: Jeff, network: Jack, view: Luke.
The comment manager’s job is to make sure that all the code that is produced or changed in SkyNet is
properly and sufficiently commented. This will hopefully fix and solve the problem of SkyNet not being
adequately commented, especially if next year’s comp410 class is to make SkyNet 3.0. The comment
managers are: model: Jeff (or John if he volunteers), network: Eric, view: Luke.
Also during the meeting today, the different groups split up and worked by themselves to make or get a start
on specific milestones for the semester. They were instructed to give these milestones to me by
Monday.