CSI Senior Project - June 2, 2009

Today we held our kickoff meeting for senior project and met our sponsor and "assumedly" his assistant, John Schull and Xanthe.

John Schull is the project sponsor and director for the CSI collaboration project. Xanthe is an industrial designer who specializes in artistic design and the like.

Based on speaking with them today, the project that they want is gigantic in proportions. The project appears to be a web-based project that should incorporate a Facebook like people / project system which allows for people and projects to have pages and profiles, allowing for them to be found and associated with one another. To be clear, it's basically Facebook with groups as projects and people as people, with some special statistics. However, this little system has to be capable of linking to almost everything in the rest of the system.

A short list of how this works is:
- A media library / database that links with the library's media database
- A tool / resource database and directory that allows for the tracking, finding, and checking in / out of tools and the like.
- An interface for doing in depth UI designs, such as touch screens, multi-wall displays, etc.
- The ability to incorporate systems such as Google Calendar, Blogger, Gmail, Chat, etc into the system.

To make a longer list shorter, the scope is gigantic and is not completely possible for 20 weeks of work, especially with the number of documents and design we need. Hence, we're probably going to narrow the scope to doing the primary aspect of the project, focusing on the people / project finding / storing / associating part of the system, seeing as it has its hands in everything.