Hi everyone,

I hope you all had a nice break.

I’m writing to remind everyone that we are using Slack to communicate about the final project and everyone needs to be checking it regularly in order to make sure that you are staying in touch with your team as things develop. You’ll find that this is a great way to coordinate, to find out who has done what and what needs to be done, and to generally discuss what’s happening with your group’s project. The key is that you need to have this app 1) on your phone, and/or 2) on your computer, with notifications set up so that you can see when people are talking, and sometimes talking directly to you.

Slack is an app available for both iPhones and Androids. I strongly encourage you do download it (it’s free!) and use it. It’s also available as a Desktop app for your laptops, and I strongly encourage to you install it. Once you’ve installed it, you can turn on notifications for just your team channel, or for just your team channel and the #general channel, or for any activity. This way you’ll limit how and where you get notifications, but still keep abreast of developments within your group.

If you have any questions about using Slack or turning on/off notifications, please email me and I’m happy to help you out. I still need someone from the customers group to join the tech committee, and that needs to happen ASAP.

Finally, the blog schedule on the website has been updated on the right hand side–sorry I didn’t get to it earlier this week but everyone who has something due this week should have known about it since the schedule was posted during the first weeks.

-Jake