Minutes of the third meeting held on Sunday (01-04-07)

Time: 20 30 to 00 45 hrs
Attendance: All Present
Team Leader: Luma S Kurup
Minutes: Balaraman

Agenda: A relook at our objectives and analyse the nitty gritties involved in achieving them

We decided finally it was time to get into details from our suface surfing. This was also essential and a prerequisite for our technical feasibility.

We started off with the underlying objective of minimizing human intervention as elimination of the same is impossible and unnecessary. Bala came up with the way the students can interact with the system (basically a poll) so that the allocation of companies to Day 0,1,2 and 3 is decided. Sachin and vivek then mentioned the minor details required like the inputs to the system such as uploading list of companies, restriction on maximum number of day 0,1,2,3, companies for each student etc.

Based on the above data an initial schedule is generated and sent to companies with sessions indicated after which they can come up with their preference leading to a revised schedule. At this point the group understood how dynamic the entire process can be and then resorted to stopping with a starting solution alone.

Bala, luma and rajeev then decided on the feasibility of student scheduling when students have clashing interviews. A software for this was also discussed about. For this preference of the students (attend/not) for every company will be given.

Rajeev came up with the idea for the brief internship report which can be maintained with the help of forums/ threads.

Vivek then suggested how a webpage can be developed to upload results which can also automatically send emails/ messages to sydents about the results.

The group also decided to scrap certain objectives like alumni interaction (as sriram group is doing it), company details (gaurav vishal group is doing) and allotment of comapnies to placement reps (rather a very simple one and no need for a software help). Action items for the next meeting included function point and feasibility analysis.