Me and the team met up on Saturday to discuss the various projects that we wanted to consider for this semester. The assignment was to narrow it down to three by Wednesday, which proved to be easier than I thought it was going to be. This was partially due to our Team dynamic and partially due to the experience that we gained from last semester.
A quick side note on our team dynamic. Everyone did a great job in helping the team to decide on our top three. We came to the meeting with each of us having a project that we wanted to explore, then we took turns trying to sell it to the team. This resulted in an informal vote that gave us our top three choices, ranked from most desired to least. It was a very smooth process.
I'll leave the other members to blog about their own favorites, and just give a brief description of mine. And my choice did make it into the top three. Its an HFOSS project, so it's humanitarian in nature, and is called sahana. The purpose of the software is to provide a way to organize disaster relief efforts around the globe. What caught my eye about this project was its mission, the huge amount of documentation that was available (wiki, etc.), and the large support community. In fact, I'll probably end up being a volunteer developer even if we don't pick this one.
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