Meeting yesterday

We had pretty low attendance for the meeting yesterday, with only four people (representatives from Mobikom, LogIT systems, Agder ICT-centre and one "freelance"). More people would have come but had other urgent business to attend to. Nonetheless we had an interesting discussion about emerging technology trends and managed to pinpoint some interesting topics for SIG meetings next year. We discussed the trends both from a marketing perspective using the Gartner report and innovationlab.dk reports as a guide and from an R&D perspective using the 7th framework program as the guide.

Some of the topics that are to be considered for next year are:

• Sensor networks (invited speakers to be decided)
• Hands-on advice on design for accessibility issues (contribution from the EIAO project)
• Microsoft major product releases - Vista, Office12, .net 3.0.... (invited speaker from Microsoft)
• Agile methods - role modeling, user stories, iterations, standup meetings, test-first... (?)
• Open Source collaboration (?)
• Applications for mobile devices (?)

BTW! we hope to switch to beta.blogger for this blog soon. At that point we will probably do some refurbishing of the blog, in particular using labels, promoting other blogs on the SIG community by aggregating their content etc.