Wednesday, May 27, 2009

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.

Monday, May 25, 2009

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.