Projects SMD155, SMM008, SMM012

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Projects SMD155, SMM008, SMM012

• Peter Parnes
• Peter.Parnes_at_ltu.se

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Today

• Course information
• Rules
• Project proposals

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Who am I?

• Dr Peter Parnes Associate Professor
• Research leader Media Technology
• Read the project course for D 1994
• W3T
• Founder and Chief Scientist Marratech
• I will be in the USA Jan 25 until Feb 9. I will
  be available on email and via emeetings.

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Contact

• Peter.Parnes_at_ltu.se
• http//media.csee.ltu.se/peppar/
• 08/50555699, or 08/52509664
• 070/6614567
• A3307
• E-meeting in the CDT session
• ICQ (4208035)
• Microsoft Instant Messenger (peppar_at_cdt.luth.se)

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Questions?

• Questions now?
• Please ask question at any time in the course!!!!
  
• Protest!! Interact!!
• Send suggestions via email (to the list or
  directly to me).
• Use the email list for discussions!
• Do not be afraid to critique me, I can take it
  -)

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Course Goal

• Learn how to work in large project groups
• Close to industry-style
• Meaning, you get an assignment and you solve it!
• You need information, you get find it!

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Course Information

• Course web page http//media.csee.ltu.se/peppar/k
  urs/project/

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Own work

• The very most important part of this course is
  own work!!!
• If you are not taking this to because you want to
  learn
• Then please do not take it!!!

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Groups

• 21 students in total
• As big groups as possible!!!
• The project task should be to large for 1 person
  so you HAVE to split up the work!
• Please, be brave and choose projects based on
  interest and not based on friends!
• You might get new friends!
• You might learn something new!

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Grade

• U/G
• Although, the work is done in large groups, the
  whole group can fail!!!
• The result should be something useful!!
• YOUR responsibility in the group!!

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Group problems

• If you feel the group is not working
• Talk with me!
• As soon as possible!
• Do not let the issue get infected

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• Rules

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Rule 1 Learning

• Participants should be aware that they read this
  course to learn something rather than they have
  to.
• I am not a police officer!

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Rule 2 Selection

• Each person should select which project they want
  to be part of
• By emailing me three prioritized choices
• I.e. you should choose 3 projects and in your
  email state which one you want to do the most,
  seconds most etc.
• Deadline 050121 12.00

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Rule 3 Roles

• One person responsible for each of the following
  roles
• Project management
• Documentation
• Source code management and release
• Test
• Architect
• Movie

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Roles Project Management

• The most important role in the project!!!!
• Leader
• The boss of the project.
• Noticing conflicts and acting on them!
• My main contact!
• If I ask the group a question, this person should
  make sure an answer is sent back.
• Responsible for making sure deadlines are kept.
• Responsible for the project plan and that it is
  kept
• Does NOT mean that this person should do all the
  work herself?

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Roles Documentation

• Make sure that everything is documented
• Information available on the WWW
• Information on the blog
• Information for posters
• Responsible for final documentation
• Once again, does NOT mean that this person should
  do all the work herself?

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Roles Source code management and release

• Keeping track of all the course code in the
  project
• Setting up a revision control system
• Subversion recommended
• Building and releasing prototypes
• Making sure prototypes actually run
• Instructions for how to run the prototypes

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Roles Test

• Designing tests
• Doing the tests
• Self or/and by assignment to others
• Documenting tests in test protocols

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Roles Architect

• The person responsible for the software design
  and architecture
• Decisions should be made in common
• But this person has final saying to resolve
  conflict
• Consensus rules!!!
• Documenting the architecture!

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Roles Movie

• Each project should produce a movie presenting
  the project results
• Continuous work!!
• This person is responsible for the movie being
  created!

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Roles

• Project management
• Documentation
• Source code management and release
• Test
• Architect
• Movie

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Rule 4 Blog

• A blog should be created where the project is
  continuously documented.
• This should be used as often as possible.
• Describing the progress of the project.
• Deadline 050127
• Email the group list where it can be found.

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Rule 5 WWW

• WWW pages for each project.
• Information about the project. Members, task,
  deliverables etc.
• Deadline 050127
• Email the group list where it can be found.

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Rule 6 Status reports

• Status report entered into the blog each Monday
  before 12.00.
• Of course with dynamic adjustment to holidays
  etc.
• This will help me know what is happening in the
  projects!!

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Rule 7 Project Plan

• Project plan including
• time schedule
• assigned roles for everybody
• Deliverables
• Deadline 050131
• On the WWW and noted in the blog

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Rule 8 Project Accounting

• Verbally, end of LP4.
• Movie that describes the project, end of LP4.
• Written report, end of LP4
• Posters (A0)
• Description of what the project is supposed to
  do. Deadline 050214.
• Description of what the project has done, end of
  LP4.

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Rule 9 Time Reports

• Time reports should be collected each Monday by
  the project leader.
• Summary presented on the project web page
  Suggestion HTML Table showing each week and a
  total sum of hours per person.
• How is up to the group!

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10 vs. 15 points

• SMD155, SMM008 10 points
• SMM012 15 points (4 persons)
• 1 point 1 week 40 hours of work!
• Obviously, SMM012 students should do more.
• Discuss this within the group and resolve it as
  soon as possible!

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• Questions?

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Project Proposals

• Emeeting Scheduling System
• Media Server
• Video Mixer
• Mobile Emeetings
• Video Blog
• Distributed TV Recording System

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Proposal 1 Emeeting Scheduling System

• Proposer Marratech
• Main contact Peter Parnes
• Create an emeeting booking system that allows for
  realtime allocation of emeeting rooms.
• Users should be able to buy emeeting room access
  and pay online via credit cards. Access to the
  Marratech Portal should be given based on user
  rights. Users should be able buy access on time
  scales ranging from 15 minutes up to a year. The
  goal is to create a fully functional system with
  connection to a real online pay system!
• Control of the Marratech Portal will be done via
  the Portal API created for this purpose.

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Proposal 2 Media Server

• Proposer Marratech
• Main contact Peter Parnes
• Create an emeeting archiving system that can
  record emeetings, transcode these into standards
  formats (AVI, QuickTime, SMIL) and then be
  streamed to viewers without a local Marratech Pro
  client. Optionally allow for editing of the
  recordings as well.

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Proposal 3 Video Mixer

• Proposer Medieteknik
• Main contact Johnny Widén
• Create a software based video mixer that allows
  for input from several video channels (i.e.
  cameras and local movie material). The system
  should allow for real-time video mixing, overlays
  etc. and produce one real-time video signal that
  can be displayed on a local TV. This will
  connected to the new Media Technology lab.

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Proposal 4 Mobile Emeetings

• Proposer Medieteknik
• Main contact Johan Kristiansson
• Extend the Pocket Pro for mobile emeetings via
  one or several project proposals based on Johan
  Kristianssons proposals. More information here.

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Proposal 5 Video Blog

• Proposer Medieteknik
• Main contact Peter Parnes
• Create a video blog where users can blog in video
  via any video enabled device (PC, 3G phone etc).

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Proposal 6 Distributed TV Recording System

• Proposer Medieteknik
• Main contact Peter Parnes
• Develop a distributed system for TV recording.
  The system should be able to figure out who is
  best to record a certain program, users should be
  able to subscribe to programs of their liking.
  The system should allow for the recording party
  to fail (i.e. crash) and there should be another
  backup recorder. Recordings should then be stored
  at the best "place" and when there is no longer
  any interest in them they should be removed to
  save disk space. Available programs should be
  published to all potential viewers and recordings
  should be able to be locked (not removed). Shared
  commenting and shared grading is also requested.

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Proposal X ?

• Do YOU have any proposals?

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• Questions?

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Rooms

• Project room
• About 10 computers shared
• The normal computer labs
• Large room booked once a week for own discussions
  
• projector
• Scheme

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Marratech Electronic Rooms

• Electronic emeeting rooms will be available for
  each group!
• Use them if you like
• Home school project room lab
• A3314 cozy room can be used for group emeetings
  
• Echo canceling microphone
• I will try to be in the SMD155 emeeting room as
  much as possible!
• http//mportal.sm.luth.se8000/

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Deadline!

• 050121 Friday 12.00 (noon)
• Project selection!
• Each person should select which project they want
  to be part of
• By emailing me three prioritized choices
• I.e. you should choose 3 projects and in your
  email state which one you want to do the most,
  seconds most etc.

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Meetings

• 050124 Everybody
• 050214 Everybody
• Group presentations of progress
• 050228 Everybody
• Group presentations of progress
• LP4
• More later.
• Other dates in the scheme A1543 is available for
  your own work if needed. Group managers
  coordinate!

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Responsibility

• YOUR responsibility that you get results ion the
  end!
• Not mine!
• I am here to support you but you are going to do
  the work!

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• Questions?