Attendees:	Joanna Araminta, Victor Leung, Joel Brakey, Michael Hart, Dean Cortinovis, Long Tang, Anthony Senyard, Steve Goschnick
Apologies:	None

This Meeting Meeting begins at 12:08 PM Steve (The Client) introduces himself to the team and vice versa, establishing that this is just an introductory meeting. Begin by discussing IT ideas Education-Game combinations Cross-cultural programs Information portals, eg Yahoo Discuss Commercial Model of product 2 levels - Applet & Application Mahjong - attractive to international base Superior strategy to other products Offering 4 players, at least 3 automated Briefly discussed Java's pluses (especially 1.2 with Swing interefacing for cross platform) Main focus will be on Chinese version of Mahjong, maybe US if there is room Bilingual game will be a plus It was suggested there be a big emphasis on strategy or the 'AI' of the game as well as the user interface Tentatively discussed superdistribution, time-sharing and user-pays system Steve agreed that graphics will be provided at a later stage by an external source Steve will provide some documentation regarding the 'Coding Standard' that the team is expected to abide by. Steve will investigate the relevance of his 'Generic Board Game' class to this project. (Its currently C++ and would need to be converted to Java). Steve will feed any Java information/code-examples he perceives as useful to the team, that he comes across. Steve is currently investigating the Java Web Server (as a replacement to Microsoft BackOffice/IIS server technology for the SolidSoftware.com.au web-site), and will pass on any information that might be relevant to the project. Steve will circulate a copy of the MOU (Memorandum Of Understanding) for the project, to all team members, after the department has signed it. Next Meeting Jo will organise next client meeting and inform everyone via e-mail

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