Everyone now has their jobs, and have been working on them for about a week.

We have two people working mainly on web sites. The web sites being developed are updates to http://mycravings.ca, http://campusforchrist.org and conference promotion sites (which is basically a subset of campusforchrist.org).

The rest are working on the Campus Movement Tracker (CMT) in various forms. We have a QA team of two guys who work in the same room, one who mostly finds issues, and the other who mostly fixes them. We put one guy on the functionality for joining and creating Bible studies, since that's a major deliverable. The others are working on a number of other subsystems.

Work is coming along slowly but surely. We're halfway through project but only now really learning the CMT code we were given, and learning the technology in a way that is simply not possible with learning projects. Overall though, that's actually quite a good timeframe all things considered, and I'm quite happy with the skill level of the guys. I wish I had them for another few months and we could really get going! I think they're all honing their programming skills and will be able to apply what they're learning in their courses.

Some project highlights so far for me include a large soccer game involving everyone, of which I scored the lone goal for my team (I happened to be in the right spot at the right time, and tapped in a shot that got past the goalie). Last Thursday we went bowling. It's fun spending so much time in one community.

Earlier today we had one of our leaders from BC come by. He's one of the most forward-thinking and idea generating people I know, so I got him to brainstorm with the IT guys about how we can use technology and evangelism. I thought there were some really great things that came out of that. Some ideas included mobile/iPhone app short videos or booklets with spiritual content that could be pulled up from anywhere, making a guide for our staff and students on how to make the most out of youtube (turns out some of our highest hit web sites are actually youtube channels!), and making use of twitter and mobile devices during an event. We took some notes which I put here.

It's interesting to see how the core hours is working out. Every week I give them a numerical goal for # of hours I expect, and with time tracking software, you can be fairly accurate in tracking. Probably 2 or 3 of them start earlier, around 9, and 3 or 4 start later, around 10:30. It's not unusual to see them working during the weekends because they need to work hours up, which is good in that it's similar to a real workplace with flex hours.