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Team:Calgary/13 May 2009
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| - | + | * Continued writing of financial plan (specifically the modelling part) | |
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| - | Today I spent some time looking at how to upload things on the Wiki. I | + | Today I spent some time looking at how to upload things on the Wiki. I explored some help pages about Wiki code and learned how to: |
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| - | * Play around with text | + | * Play around with text alignment |
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| - | Today, I worked on the marketing aspect of our project. I worked on my marketing strategies such as how to approach research & development pharmaceutical companies and oil & gas development companies. I also contacted the Calgary | + | Today, I worked on the marketing aspect of our project. I worked on my marketing strategies such as how to approach research & development pharmaceutical companies and oil & gas development companies. I also contacted the Calgary Herald and Global TV with regards to providing news coverage for our research project. |
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| - | + | Today, Emily and I jumped into the world of iGEM wikis. We spent some time learning how to build tables in Wiki code and started uploading pictures and the mini-biographies to our Team page. We spent a long time playing around with formatting, trying to get the pictures all the same size, all the text properly aligned, etc. We also looked at coding for building a calendar on our Wiki in order to keep track of what various people are doing on any given day. The main goal of our wiki will be to keep all members and supervisors updated on our work because we are a fairly large group, as well as to inform other iGEM teams and our sponsors about what we are all about. | |
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First draft of the idea was drawn on paper. Drawing of the actual poster began. | First draft of the idea was drawn on paper. Drawing of the actual poster began. | ||
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| - | + | We did some more epic building in Second Life, graduating to higher levels in the tower tutorial to learn how to make chairs and stairs. My orientation of axes is still off, and I'm not quite sure I understand the different world/local rotations, which is something I'm working on. As a group, we collaborated together in building for the first time, working on a primitive DNA molecule. | |
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| - | + | iGEM in Second Life Begins | |
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| - | + | Retrospective Notebook: This entry was not written on this day, but derived later from working notes I made that day. | |
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| + | First gained access to Second Life and began experimenting with what would be possible in it. We would not have access to our island until much later. | ||
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| + | I had already seen the usefulness of physical objects, which can be dragged around the world by visitors, and of dynamically linking objects together to represent complexes and polymers. Was also beginning to think about the state feature of SL's linden scripting language, and whether that could be useful to my early ideas for the biobrick simulator. | ||
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| + | I had originally thought that the physical objects drifting away would be a problem, and then that the user should do their experiments inside some chamber to keep all the free floating molecules in one place! I later found better ways of controlling object movement. | ||
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| - | + | Fahd and I began thinking about which types of companies we should contact. We brainstormed what materials we need, how we should present it. Initially we were thinking of setting up one-on-one meetings with companies and presenting a marketing pitch as well as hand delivering the sponsorship packages. | |
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