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Friday 10th october 2003

Above (left to right): Sotiris, Andrew, Kim and Matt - Demo Day, October 8th, 2003.

This Wednesday was the big Demo Day. All the students had the opportunity to exhibit their projects to the public and get valuable feedback.

According to our coordinator the Demo Day was a big success. It was attended by other students, parents and relatives, past teachers, IT professionals and general public.

Our team was busy all day with visitors from various backgrounds. One of the interesting aspects of the demo day is that the team had to adjust the presentation for visitors with an excellent background on computing as well as persons not so computer literate.

We also had the opportunity to check on other students final product and talk about various problems they encountered.

All teams looked good and professional. It was a memorable day full of smiles.

Tuesday 23rd September 2003

Above: The team pictured with client, Maurice Woodmansee.

After many cancellations, mainly because of bad weather, we finally managed to attend a real game of Croquet. For all of us it was the first time.

We drove to Kingston to the local croquet club where the members were happy to assist us with our developing skills in using the mallet.

The members of the club were very helpful. They answered all our questions and agreed to pose for us.

Our project client is member of the Kingston club as well so we had the opportunity to briefly discuss problems with the code and get together for a team photograph witch was used in our poster.

Friday 5th September 2003

We are already half way through the semester and everything is going really well. We are all working on coding and already have a few of the interfaces up and running. These interfaces are implemented and waiting to be tested by the client which we are going to meet next week. 

This week we had the management meeting, which we used as a basis for self criticism to pinpoint areas where there is space from improvement. Namely the quality of the product and human-computer interaction issues in the interfaces and later in the manuals.

We also have to start preparations for the demo day. With a little bit of stress management it could be a day of fun. Come on everybody we are almost there.

Thanks for looking at our site, drop in on demonstration day and check out our system.

Friday 24th July 2003

The break was long and relaxing for most of us. Our long journey through the second semester has started.

The croquet team will keep the same positions as in the first semester. No drama, no excitement.

After the meeting with the client the system requirements were established. We realized that we have to update the database. New use cases were added and the number of the reports jumped to 12!! A new administrative task was added to the old ones. Our tools page is not going to be updated because no new tools were added for the second semester.

On Wednesday we had the first meeting with our supervisor (Ian Lewis). Our cooperation looks very promising. We had better get started. Time is precious.

We wish everybody well.

Thursday 22nd May 2003

This is the second last week of the semester. This Wednesday 21 of May we had our presentation. We are quite happy with the whole performance.

Seven guests from the client's side including the president of Croquet Tasmania and one of the future users of our system attended our presentation. We had the opportunity to answer the questions they asked.

Our client was asked by the administrative committee of Croquet Tasmania to give them a brief report regarding the work we are doing for the handicapping system, for their annual meeting in May.

This is our client's reply to them:

"...The modernised system will be mouse driven instead of being command driven. It will be user friendly. It will be possible to send computer lists directly from the computer via e-mail. Lists from clubs sent via e-mail will be able to be scrutinised, corrected and then fed directly into the computer without having to retype the information. The system will be written in appropriate computer languages to enable the system to be run entirely on the internet.

The system is being modernised by a group of four, 3rd year students at the University of Tasmania as a project for their degree studies in Information Technology. Their work will be complete by the end of October 2003. By then, the system should be up and running and operating handbooks will have been prepared." 
                                                                    - April 2003.