This week I played part in communicating our contact information with each other this week. Jack contacted everyone and we all replied with our email/phone/aim contact information. We all first agreed that we would rotate the job of our group activity report each week. Following this we started to formulate our topic. Once again all of this communication was through email.
Upon some research and a general consensus we decided to do our topic on Open Source technology implementations vs. Microsoft centric implementations. I believe most of our group is comprised of mainly computer or technology related majors. So this works out pretty well. We agreed this would be a solid topic and went from there.
Our group did some preliminary research on the topic. We were able to come up with a decent amount of sources regarding information related to our topic. We found information varying from example schools, businesses, and governments that have had success with both open source and Microsoft products to the cost of different implementations. The white paper will hopefully be kept mainly an objective document with benefits and negatives of each implementation. This will lead to a more useful document since we aren’t trying to market anything, but would rather inform people of their choices.
Focus on you
Remember, as the project progresses, to focus on the work you have done. If you do not highlight your individual accomplishes, they won't show-up as vital to the project's completion.