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TODO:
- how the project management should be done? Incremental or another fresh start? Set up the basic framework.
- Incremental, use the same spreadsheet, add new tabs.
- Keep percent progress, give them different initial value to represent the level of completeness.
- Keep weekly progress as before, delta of the percent progress
- Drop the pages tracker, pointless in phase 2.
- how the communication should be arranged in figure, take into account the time difference between helsinki and beijing.
- ad-hoc meeting until end of June.
- twice per week, one in workaday, one weekly in weekend, night time in Beijing (can be discussed later, depends ...).
- shall we open the case studies to contributors? how to acknowledge them? how to include different topics, by review proposal e.g.?
- Not now, we have enough content already. But we can reconsider if there are strong candidates who want to contribute.
- what targets to set for the second phase (code quality, text quality, image quality... )? how to measure them quantitatively? The design of excel table(s)
- overall quality targets close-to-publication level, which means the text should not be fragmented, should be readable, should be logically consistent, eliminate typos and grammar mistakes.
- all the code snippets should be finished. The quality should be publication-ready, no bugs, refactored.
- all the images should be replaced with our own makings. The quality of images should target publication-ready. Some of the figures might need to change the format to PDF.
- the possible uncertainties, including quarantine, thesis, job, etc. and how they could affect the progress
- communicate with Liang whenever possible.
- then just be flexible and adaptive, stay safe first.
- focus on thesis first, which will be finished by the end of July; during which period a very slow progress is acceptable, but not total stop.
- the timetable of second phase
- target is end of the year, i.e. 2020
- the work load of each chapter w.r.t. metrics above (estimation of work)
- Jianxin will make an initial estimate.
- open a new project.
- possible principles of work mode
- Chapter by chapter, focus on polishing one chapter every times.
- standard of equation
- as general rule, bold font for vector, normal font for scalar, capital for matrix.
- fix existing writing according to general rule, in case it complicates things, we discuss.
- try to align equation system if possible.
- should be give out a draft pdf to the community for collecting feedback
- yes, send the draft to the community
- send the toc to jon
- possible problem to avoid: make the text perfect at the beginning
- focus on our goal, goal driven, keep track of the progress, project management.
- bottom line is the book needs to be a good tech writing, correct, clear, readable, logic.
- anything else?