Due to the surprisingly high number of teams survived the workshop to this point, presenting your second milestone in the Google Technologies for Web Development Workshop will take place on both 11/01/2010 and 18/01/2010 (usual place, usual time). At the beginning of the first meeting we will make a HAGRALA in which we determine the order of presentations (first 4 teams on 11/01 and the rest on 18/01).
We remind you that for this second milestone you are required to provide a fully functioning project, that would be evaluated by the course staff, and you'll get valuable feedback regarding the expected final project configuration and scope.
This is not BETA in the sense of "only a proof of concept" but rather in the sense of "you could still fix minor bugs or add minor missing features emerged at the last minute". By the second milestone you should have completed your product. Please provide a full demonstration (8 minutes) of using your product in various scenarios on the *live* project. The demonstration should encompass your top features, and highlight your product complexity and challenges (architectural/algorithmic/technological/design/usability etc. You should also be prepared to talk about your development process, in case you would be asked to (how did you split the work? what was easy? what was difficult? why?).
If you are using a power point presentation, use no more than 4 slides altogether (including cover slide!). Please send us the presentation (and any other document that you think would be useful for us to better evaluate your work) by email beforehand.
Some general advice:
- Prepare an appealing demo!
- You have only a short time for the demonstration so start with your key features.
- If you are demonstrating social features of your gadget, or any other features that require prior preparations - please prepare them in advance! (e.g. creating social networks of several users).
- It is also advised to rehearse your presentation so it will flow nicely (For example: make sure you could demonstrate different users simultanuously - using different browsers for example)
You are required to provide in your Google code website a link to your running application. The link should bring the user to the installation page of your application.
Important note: Full grading for the milestone (30 points) will be given for teams that would .successfully show:
Focusing on primary use case and taking into account our feedback (sent by email for every team).
Following the project plan while adapting dynamically.
Continuously working along the semester (tip: put on the project site a report with all the time spent on the project by each of the team members. You are advised to update this report after every programming session).
Demonstrating an interesting, self contained, useful and live application.
Providing a link to a live application
Good presentation (simple, clear, focused, time-framed, sincere)
If you have any questions or comments please do not wait for the milestone meeting, use email: taugadgets@gmail.com
Good luck,
Yossi, Niv, Misha and Ohad