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The dev team met for the first time today. Clay and I brought the coop’s blender to the 5th floor of MIT’s Student Center, along with bananas, yogurt, soy milk, peanut butter and frozen fruit. We also brought the T-Shirts to give out. We brainstormed for a while and spent the rest of the meeting doing research on a clump of computers.

For the past 4 years I have happily used athena linux clusters and my XP desktop. I have avoided owning things, especially portable, expensive things, to avoid having to be careful. Nonetheless, I suddenly decided that having a laptop would be damn convenient. I bought a MacBook. I like it a lot.

Becca designed a webpage for ThoughtAndMemory.org since we do not yet have a real application. The flash barcode banner is awesome. I love how unexpected words filter in and out. Garth’s brother, Brandt, wrote the text that explains the project’s goals and vision. The whole page is pretty rocking.

[Edit: The original webpage is archived here here]

Clay’s friends are too over committed to pump out HuginMunin code. What we need are young coders with time to spare. As a teaching assistant for MIT’s software lab I have roped in a few top students to volunteer for a couple months. The goal is to pump out a prototype.

I do not think it matters too much if my thesis is a few weeks late. I told my new job I could not start until July. Today I drew up a system diagram for HuginMunin. I can’t help but think of how to get it done. Clay’s enthusiasm and optimism are contagious. Finding committed coders is our best bet for making progress.