A tough call today for the jury panel at the final presentations of the ICT students. Compliments to all of the ICT students for the results presented. After final evaluation the judges decided to award the first place to the web development group, but the others were very close. A big thank you to all participants for the amount of time and effort invested in the project!

I have been rather neglective in posting on the wikipilot weblog, mainly because I have been travelling a lot. Amongst others I have attended the IHO HSSC meeting in Rostock, where all the new hydrographic standards are discussed, drafted and adopted. Interestingly the working group responsible for drafting the new standard for digital pilots (Standardisation of Nautical Publications Working Group...

First sprint meeting was today. It was good to see every team has cleared the first hurdle of getting to grips with their development platform. It seems the Android teams have a tough nut to crack in how to retrieve data from the database.The apple teams can benefit from the built-in mapkit and annotation framework, and as I understand built-in KML support from IOS 4.2. The web-development team...

Today was the startup for the group of IDM students. Welcome onboard!
We had an inspiring lecture on the principle of social media and crowdsourcing from Frank Willems. Amazing to see how many initiatives are popping up all over the world, and how powerfull crowdsourcing can be. I had never realised the diversity of applications where crowdsourcing can be used: from close to home Verbeterdebuurt to...

We have had a succesfull kick-off meeting yesterday in Delfzijl. With approx 45 students and teachers, our warehouse was transformed into an extraordinary classroom. There was a lively discussion and positive mood.
Local radio RTVNoord broadcasted a short item on the project today: Listen here....
Willem...