Team:Newcastle/Meetings/12 February 2009

Agenda of the Meeting

 * Discuss about the timeline
 * Previous action points discussed
 * Information about application for grants
 * Discuss ideas for iGEM project

Minutes of the Meeting

 * The meeting started at around 4.30pm.
 * Were present: Anil Wipat, Arunkumar Krisnakumar, Dan Swan, Goksel Misirli, Jessica Tarn, Jen Hallinan, Morgan Taschuk, Mathew Robinson.
 * We discussed about the timeline and our instructors and advisor suggested some points to change or to clarify.
 * We discussed about the action points of the previous meeting and our instructors suggested that we should assign each task to every member of the team so that on the formal meeting, they could ask the person concerned about the action point.
 * Our instructors told us how those meetings have to be organised, and gave us information about the organisation of the meetings and agenda/minutes/action points structure.
 * Our instructors told us about the application for funds and gave a deadline for three members of the team to complete their form and return it to them.
 * We decided to discuss the ideas for the iGEM project in priority at the next meeting.
 * We dismissed at 6pm.

Action Points of the Meeting

 * Register the team ( Jen and Neil)
 * Setup the Wiki (Dan)
 * Add another column to the timeline to assign each task to someone (Arun)
 * Re-order timeline and make some modification as fellow: (Goksel)
 * try to break down major goals into sub-goals and minor deadlines
 * put deadlines not starting dates in timeline
 * take out Mousepad trophee criterias from timeline
 * add "start of writing for MSc students" (1st of August)
 * add a deadline for someone to check for variance in the standards
 * add dealines for poster printing (takes 1 week), and assign someone the task of
 * picking up the poster and bringing it to Boston (Jessica)
 * add dealines for presentation: draft, practice in front of reasearch group on a friday evening
 * Make sure to distribute workload evenly by taking in consideration of holidays and master student's deadline
 * Transfer timeline to Google Calendar (Arun)
 * Design and upload front page for the Wiki just after registration (Goksel)
 * Book a room for the next meeting (Goksel)
 * Inspect other awards (to be decided after we decide on prject name)
 * Mathew have to fill and hand in the funds application for by the 13th of February
 * Arun have to fill and hand in the funds application for by the 16th of February
 * Jessica have to fill and hand in the funds application for by the 13th of March
 * Send an e-mail to everyone to specify the time and place of the next meeting (Goksel)
 * Add Agenda for next meeting, Minutes and Action points of this meeting onto IGEM meeting notes (Arun)