Week 11

-Meet with new group

-exchange emails 

Week 12

-Decide on topic

-Research topic

-Write proposal

Week 13

-Research topic

-Decide on layout of design

Week 14

-Complete the first draft of technical marketing document

Week 15

-Final draft of technical marketing document

Week 11:
Corresponded with group members via email and decided to use google docs to manage the project documents.

Week 12:
I was in CA visiting Berkeley this week.

Week 13:
We took the outline from the project description and split it into 4 sections. We each wrote a section.

Week 1 -

  Our group has decided to do some advertising on the iRobot product line.  We will feature five of the six robots the company has available for home use and  we will be presenting it in a four-fold pamphlet. 

Week 2 -

Group 1 met for the first time
during class on March 27th.  We discussed our initial thoughts and
interests on the project and set up a tentative work schedule for the
project.  We decided as a group that we were most interested in the field
of Computers and Technology.  During the course of class, we were able to
as a group decide that we were interested in writing a marketing document for a
recently created database of schools and contact information for all of

Week 11 -
Completed tasks:
    Decided on topic: Thursday 3/27/08
    Started research: Thursday 3/27/08
Tasks to accomplish:
    Project proposal

This week my group was able to revise many of the inconsistencies in the first draft of our white paper in order to make the second draft more illustrative and persuasive.  In doing so, as per recommendations, we added some examples of OSS that could be beneficial to small businesses, visual aids that can act as a supplement to the text, and some examples of businesses that had implemented OSS and how the change has affected them.  In doing this, I feel as if our paper has become much better and our argument much more credible.

Week 6:
My group jointly prepared the 300 word project proposal.
Week 7:
We prepared the more detailed version of the project proposal.
Week 8:
I started an outline for the whitepaper so that I would have a place to put links and thoughts on various whitepaper topics. It is given in the link below. I added some of the links from the outline to the annotated bibliography.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dggx4973_3hjtd3rhv

-Week 7 –

Last week, week 10, we received the commented on version of the first draft of our paper on OSS and small businesses.  The general prognosis was that while well written, our paper needed more examples or case studies included within it.  This would effectively allow the readers to see how other businesses in similar situations have implemented OSS and what the end results were, allowing them to picture themselves doing something similar. 

Week 7 -

Completed tasks:
    300 word topic discussion: Tuesday 2/19/08
    1000 word project proposal: Thursday 2/21/08
Tasks to accomplish:
    Annotated bibliography