[Ccoptions-development] Warwick Meeting

[Tim Helweg-L. <ti...@gc...>]

Project members,

My apologies for being out of touch with many of you for so long.

Thank you again for your interest in the project, and for your patience. I 
appreciate your willingness to contribute and for the contributions that 
many of you have made.
I am conscious as I am sure you are that the project has been slow to 
progress. This is essentially because I have not been able to give out 
specific project tasks to you all. As the designer of the project, I took 
it upon myself to manage the project too. This I can see is problematic. 
Not being a programmer, I am not able to follow the progress of the code or 
to define task boundaries from a programmers perspective.
This is a solvable problem and will, I believe, be remedied by appointing a 
Project Manager who can code.

We are fast approaching the end of October now, and the UN climate change 
conference will start soon after on the 1st of December. My current 
thinking is that it is unlikely we will complete the project in time for 
this event. This is sad but by no means the end of the world. The work that 
has been started will be announced at the conference and we will be 
gathering contact details of delegates who would like to receive 
notification of the completed model. The model will be need for many years 
to come is still vital for us to deliver.

Over the last few months, my time has been increasingly diverted to other 
preparations for the conference. My input will be even thinner for the 
remainder of this year, before I pick up the project afresh in the new year.

I am keen that we hold onto the gains we have made, both in terms of the 
planning and programming work you have already done, and in the interest 
from many of you that I have yet to put to good use.

Most of you are based at Warwick University and there are a number who I 
have yet to meet. I would like to arrange a meeting  later this week or 
early next at Warwick. This will give us all an opportunity to meet and to 
recap on where the project is at.

My primary aim for the meeting however is for us to identify a Project 
Manager. This person will be a programmer who can work with me to identify 
and allocate tasks to the team. I will need to work closely with them to 
convey what the end user needs. The Project Manager will follow the 
progress of the code, contribute themselves assist in giving feedback and 
coordinating the work of the team.

I am aware that you are all busy people and that this post will occupy a 
good deal of your time. However I also think that the project can be 
concluded quite swiftly when our sizeable team of programmers are given 
clear instructions what to do.

I suggest one of the following meeting times. Please get back to me with 
your availability for each of these.
- This Friday lunchtime/afternoon
- Next Monday morning
- Next Tuesday Evening
- Other (please suggest what works for you)

Would you also consider the task of Project Manager. If you are interested 
or want to know more please let me know by email.

I am also conscious that some of you may still be interested in attending 
the climate conference and we can talk about that in more detail at the 
meeting.

Finally If you think that this work could be integrated into the tasks or 
projects that your course requires, please let me know. I would be happy to 
make your contributions formally know to the University.

Many Thanks,
I look forward to seeing many of you soon.

Tim Helweg-Larsen

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