Preliminary Challenges

Hello, everyone! It’s been a great week of introductions, conversations, and role assignment for Team 6. Our team members in Ireland and France seem so lively, friendly, and intelligent; both my partner and I are excited to be working with them. At this point, I can identify one major challenge that will come along with our production: time zones. Ireland is five hours ahead of Florida’s EST, and France is six hours ahead. Since I work two jobs, it’s been a struggle to make sure I’m available for team meetings and decision-making. We are using the collaboration software called Slack to message, interact, and share topic ideas. It is certainly different than a video or face-to-face meeting. However, we all seem to be excellent communicators and it’s been smooth sailing with online messaging so far. We discussed using Zoom for video conferencing on our next meeting, tentatively scheduled for Thursday 2/7 this week at 12:00 PM EST. Hopefully video-chatting will clear up any discrepancies some team members might have (though I do not believe there are any), or relay ideas more clearly.
We all seem like busy, well-rounded college students with full lives and I suspect the time differences will be our only real challenge moving forward.
Thankfully, we’ve done an excellent job of identifying our own strengths and weaknesses; everyone has taken on a role that they are comfortable with and we have stated our intention to help each other along the way. I have been placed in charge of graphics and vector imaging for the document we produce. I know my way around Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, but I have never worked in the applications knowing my images will be directed toward an international audience. I trust that my team members will assist and provide detailed feedback while I take on this challenge. Well, that’s all for now. I will send an update after our next meeting.