WEEK 05 JOURNAL

Thursday 9th April 2009


During this week lecture, we had a guest named Neil Brown, from Linux Development. He introduced us three fundamental elements for distributed collaboration : philosophy, tool and people. It was quite interesting as how a specific code of software assists team collaboration in a global level. However, he suggested that the code must be maintained and made it clear for everyone in the community. The right tools and software should also be considered in order to make team collaboration work effectively. He also mentioned about people as it is important to give value to all contributions, and carefully listen to each other‘s ideas. Then, the quality of work will maintain in high professional standards for a long term.


Neil also provided his slides on the following website;

http://neil.brown.name/blog/collaboration


After the lecture, our team started planning for the final fabrication. We discussed about our strengths and weaknesses from the first draft and presentation. We came up with a list of milestones and timeline as follows:

- correcting scale of the building

- finishing the exterior and interior of the building

- modelling furnishings

- textures, scaling textures, bump maps

- terrain, layout, orientation, making the site more noticeable, defining the building site and context of the place

- environment, time of the day, type of vegetation used, lighting, atmosphere, objects, sounds

- interactivity, having vehicles to get around, AI's and what they will be doing

- preparation for the presentation, Power Point, video walkthrough