Weekly Meeting

[jzstark]

TODO:

• how the project management should be done? Incremental or another fresh start? Set up the basic framework.
  • Incremental, use the same spreadsheet, add new tabs.
  • Keep percent progress, give them different initial value to represent the level of completeness.
  • Keep weekly progress as before, delta of the percent progress
  • Drop the pages tracker, pointless in phase 2.
• how the communication should be arranged in figure, take into account the time difference between helsinki and beijing.
  • ad-hoc meeting until end of June.
  • twice per week, one in workaday, one weekly in weekend, night time in Beijing (can be discussed later, depends ...).
• shall we open the case studies to contributors? how to acknowledge them? how to include different topics, by review proposal e.g.?
  • Not now, we have enough content already. But we can reconsider if there are strong candidates who want to contribute.
• what targets to set for the second phase (code quality, text quality, image quality... )? how to measure them quantitatively? The design of excel table(s)
  • overall quality targets close-to-publication level, which means the text should not be fragmented, should be readable, should be logically consistent, eliminate typos and grammar mistakes.
  • all the code snippets should be finished. The quality should be publication-ready, no bugs, refactored.
  • all the images should be replaced with our own makings. The quality of images should target publication-ready. Some of the figures might need to change the format to PDF.
• the possible uncertainties, including quarantine, thesis, job, etc. and how they could affect the progress
  • communicate with Liang whenever possible.
  • then just be flexible and adaptive, stay safe first.
  • focus on thesis first, which will be finished by the end of July; during which period a very slow progress is acceptable, but not total stop.
• the timetable of second phase
  • target is end of the year, i.e. 2020
• the work load of each chapter w.r.t. metrics above (estimation of work)
  • Jianxin will make an initial estimate.
• open a new project.
• possible principles of work mode
  • Chapter by chapter, focus on polishing one chapter every times.
• standard of equation
  • as general rule, bold font for vector, normal font for scalar, capital for matrix.
  • fix existing writing according to general rule, in case it complicates things, we discuss.
  • try to align equation system if possible.
• should be give out a draft pdf to the community for collecting feedback
  • yes, send the draft to the community
  • send the toc to jon
• possible problem to avoid: make the text perfect at the beginning
  • focus on our goal, goal driven, keep track of the progress, project management.
  • bottom line is the book needs to be a good tech writing, correct, clear, readable, logic.
• anything else?