Enterprise, prepare to be boarded!

We are still looking for students to participate in the GTAP program. Word is getting out, and soon school is getting out. Summer is almost here but it's not too late to join, and we haven't run out of projects. Student teams who complete a project get to present it to a packed lecture hall at the Googleplex.

Student presentation at Google I/O

Our first student team gave a lightning talk at Google's San Francisco offices in front of 200+ attendees of Google I/O. We introduced the project, the team, outlined the goals, and took some questions. Response was good.

This is the first, most fun part of any project, the beginning, when all possibilities are open, we haven't locked ourselves in or hit any snags, there's just the excitement of a small group of engineers with a great idea, eager to get started. Frustration, schedule slippage, and seemingly unsolvable problems, those all come later.

For the moment, we have a plan. We start with the basic application structure and the full team comes on board June 15.

First students on board

We had our first team meeting Sunday and made good progress in outlining the projects goals and initial scope, as well as the first steps in getting started. We registered the user chiefmedicalofficer and several URLs in the google system, including a placeholder for our App Engine application:

http://chiefmedicalofficer.appspot.com

We are also presenting our project at a Google I/O meetup Tuesday evening at Google's San Francisco offices!

Keep watching for updates. We are planning on 3 development cycles, 4 weeks each, with bi-weekly milestones and a final presentation in October.