First meeting

I’ve got Chris as my project supervisor and we had our first meeting today just to set some ground rules – what he wants from us, how he does things, that sort of stuff really. He also gave us a top tip about the project and researching it. If we think of it as a triangle and at each point is one of our areas of research that make up the subject we’re researching. We then look for stuff that covers one or two of the points. Right, I’ve lost you now haven’t I? Yeah we were a bit like that when Chris explained it so he did an example and as luck would have it, we used my project. My three things are open source, immersion and disability so I need to find stuff that covers each of them as well as open source & immersion, and disability & open source and, well, you’ve probably got the picture now. He also made a really good point that the chances are, the only person to have any sort of interest in all of these three points are us and by the end of the project we’ll be the experts in the thing that covers all three – now that’s a bit scarey.

We also got our timetable of meetings for this term which I really wanted to get sorted as soon as possible. What with working, I need to map my life out for the next few months (perhaps I should be entering this under Space). So, all in all it was a really good meeting….now the hard work begins.