Notes from meeting on 08/02/2013

With thanks to Matt for his action list (below), here is a slightly fuller version of the notes from yesterday:

1) Biased information - we talked about the problem that each organisation/person will be 'selling' their company/themselves and so tend to exaggerate their role in the project. I think many of the articles are written by or based on information from Peter Fink (which is why they all say the same thing). The political statements about Phase 2 are even less likely to be 100% true - we have the two extreme, and opposing, views: the Conservative politicians and FoRM Assoc...

Somehow we need to get the truth - we thought perhaps the steering group may be more objective as they have no professional interest.

2) Allocating marks - I think there was general agreement to a system that involved a base mark with some kind of adjustment from other members of the team. Suggestions included:

• 'secret vote' for team members to give marks?
• average mark from all team members to be added to base mark for each of us?
• maybe an interim assessment of whether each person is doing enough (or more/less than expected)?
• how should we assess everyone's input to the project - do we need to set objectives/expectations to measure against?

All to consider this so that we can agree next week.

3) Site visit -All to put availability for a site visit on the blog so that some or all of us can visit together if possible; if not, we can go separately.

4) Report and presentation - TD to develop template. We also need to start thinking about, and putting together, illustrations, etc. for the report (with credits where necessary)

5) Objectives - All to consider what the objectives were for the Northala project so we can discuss next week.

6) Competition brief - MD to contact Landscape Institute to see if they hold a copy

7) Questions - All to add any more questions by the end of Saturday; KH to then collate these into a single list.