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Athena Desktop Discovery status update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Dec 2 14:49:52 1999
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 14:49:48 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199912021949.OAA08085@small-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: magellan@mit.edu
Project Name: Athena Desktop
Project Leader: Greg Hudson, Karl Ramm
Report Date: December 2, 1999
Project URL: http://web.mit.edu/aui/notebook
Accomplishments past period:
- Confirmed sponsor sign-off
- Project announcement
- Discussed user feedback possibilities
- Discussed components of new desktop
Goals for coming period:
- Design web survey to hook respondents
- Discuss transition plan
- Discuss software stability requirements
- Meet with Susan Jones about user impact
Issues:
- None
Key learnings:
- Focus groups and intensive interactive feedback may not help
for choosing between already known options; instead, it can
help identify new ideas.
- You can make up a number of interesting-sounding words
starting with "gz".
Team dynamics:
- In good shape
Additional comments:
- None
