Mrz 16 2008
KIWI Kickoff Meeting: Great team and great project
Wednesday to Friday, we officially started the KIWI project with a great kickoff meeting in Maria Plain close to Salzburg. From my perspective, the kickoff meeting was almost a perfect event: teambuilding worked exceptionally well, the discussions were lively but always fair, everyone now has a good idea what the project really is about, and we alltogether had a lot of fun during the meeting!
Personally, I particularly enjoyed the discussion on the two KIWI use cases on Thursday, where it turned out that our two industry partners (Sun Microsystems and Logica) are much more different than we expected – very challenging and very interesting for the project. The first use case is concerned with community-driven Software Engineering at Sun Microsystems’ Netbeans development unit in Prague. The second use case addresses project management at Logica. While Sun is a company that has already significantly adopted the social software approach, even in its organisational structures, Logica is an organisation that is just currently getting in touch with such ideas.
The second discussion I liked very much was the one on dissemination and demonstration that followed the presentations of Julia and Andreas. It is really great that dissemination and exploitation will accompany the project from day 1, because raising awareness is often even more important than having great ideas.
I would like to particularly thank Julia (and the rest of the Salzburg Research team) for making this meeting work almost perfectly, and to all attendees for coming, being open minded, thinking, discussing, and being nice to each other. Also, thanks go to Jana for blogging about the whole event so extensively.
Here are some impressions (26 photos, so don’t forget to navigate through several pages!).
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