Progress Report Week 6

I have finally finished off the shell of the Hydropolis. The biggest issue for me was playing around with the list variable for the arcs in GC to match the exact shape of the island. But after many attempts a perfect shaped was formed. After importing in Sandbox I realised the shell looked a little boring. Using the polygon surface from GC I managed to put a glass like surface on the shell. I have been working on the interior putting in realistic beams and walls.

Asynchronous messaging

Our team could use the asynchronous messaging system and not have to wait for a response because they can rely on the messaging infrastructure to ensure delivery. Unlike synchronous messaging, asynchronous messaging allows people to communicate reliably even if one of the parties is unavailable. With services such as Email, Forums, Fax and blogs, it would be easier for our team to collaborate. Email would be the first option for our team. Leaving each other mail and files to download on providers like Gmail could ensure reliable delivery and keep record of sent and received mail. Using blogs to communicate past and future plans is another example of how our team could collaborate. Blogs have the availability to show an idea or thought very effectively through text, images and online videos. Faxes could be used to send each other instant printed messages such as notes or drawings. Our team could use forums to discuss issues relating to our project, such as problems encountered and solved.

Collaboration Topics

CULTURE

• Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.
• Culture is the systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people.
• Culture in its broadest sense is cultivated behaviour; that is the totality of a person's learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, or more briefly, behaviour through social learning.
• A culture is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviours, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.
• Culture is symbolic communication. Some of its symbols include a group's skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and motives. The meanings of the symbols are learned and deliberately perpetuated in a society through its institutions

http://www.tamu.edu/classes/cosc/choudhury/culture.html

• The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought.
• These patterns, traits, and products considered as the expression of a particular period, class, community, or population: Edwardian culture; Japanese culture; the culture of poverty.
• These patterns, traits, and products considered with respect to a particular category, such as a field, subject, or mode of expression: religious culture in the Middle Ages; musical culture; oral culture.
• The predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize the functioning of a group or organization.

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=culture&gwp=13


Management

http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/management/management-01.html

1. The act, manner, or practice of managing; handling, supervision, or control: management of a crisis; management of factory workers.
2. The person or persons who control or direct a business or other enterprise.
3. Skill in managing; executive ability.

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=management+what+is&gwp=13