This page discusses how to run an international collaboration on scientific and engineering research in applied sustainability.
It includes links to software and services and provides an example project: Open source solar spectrum project
Teams are responsible for:
- In week 1, students choose a format for communication in both asynchronous and synchronous situations in private. You enable your advisors to see what is going on....(e.g. Emails are cc'd, blogs passwords are provided).
- In week 1, create a Gantt chart of tasks and the individuals that will be responsible for them
- Use a logged weekly full team meetings(voice)(private).
- Use a design journal/idea blog/chat room/wall, which is logged?(private).
- Share design iterations shared on Appropedia [project] and Thingiverse [designs] (public) – history file will track contributions.
- Building and testing the devices, with publishing full instructions/protocols.
- Develop method of sharing data access between universities and the public. See for example Pachube or consider ftp protocol – whatever is going to work.