July 15th Meeting Notes

On June 15th, we got together at Katie’s house for pizza and business (I must say, a great combination!). We had three goals:

1. Figure out the things we want to do within the next 2 1/2 months before Public Beta.
2. Get a name for the project.
3. Set up our Teams.

I am happy to report that we accomplished all three. Here’s what we did.

For this meeting, Katie was the facilitator. It was her idea that we would all get identical pads of yellow post-it notes and mass-market Bic pens (supplied by her). Then she explained.

We would have a set period of time to write as many ideas with cheap Bic pens on yellow post-its. One idea per post-it, and each note gets stuck to a wall in haphazard fashion.

Once we had our ideas up on the wall, we then went through and started sticking them into groups on the wall, like topics with like topics, creating themes.

Then we discussed them.

How Do YOU Define Style?

According to http://www.thefreedictionary. com/style, the noun style has nine meanings. The three that we are most concerned with are listed below.

1. manner, mode, style, way, fashion- how something is done or how it happens
(how something is done or how it happens; “her dignified manner”; “his rapid manner of talking”;“their nomadic mode of existence”; “in the characteristic New York style”; “a lonely way of life”; “in an abrasive fashion”)

2. dash, elan, flair, panache, style – distinctive and stylish elegance
(distinctive and stylish elegance; “he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer”)

3. vogue, trend, style – the popular taste at a given time
(the popular taste at a given time; “leather is the latest vogue”; “he followed current trends”; “the 1920s  had a style of their own”)

Let’s examine these three examples. Number 1 focuses on a way of being or living and doing what needs to be done in a manner of your own. This is considered an internal style choice.

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