From Electron Club, Glasgow

The Project planner is currently hosted on Basecamp because it's easy! We all share a project manager at http://electronclub.updatelog.com . If you would like to put your project on the planner then just ask someone at the club.

How to use the Electron Club project planner

Initially Logging in

Go here: http://electronclub.updatelog.com You'll have to login with your provided username and password so you'll have to have got an administer to have formerly set these details up for you.

When you initially login you will be greeted by an overview of projects in the Club.

Left Hand side

• Dashboard - An overview of all the currently available projects at the electron club.
• To-Dos - You can see a list of things people are doing, includin yourself via the 'To-Dos' overview as well but its usually easier just to just look inside actual projcets and then look at their seperate 'To-Dos'.
• MileStones - A calendar of notable dates within the projects.

Right Hand Side

• People - Everyone involved!
• Projects - Individual orginaisers for the projects

Navigating a Project

Overview - A small calendar and all the things moving through the planner in the past few days. If people are messaging, commenting, completing tasks or adding files it all goes through here so kepp an eye out!

Messages - Messages for everyone on the Project to see. This is an internal messaging system to talk to all the project members. You may ask why use this chat as opposed to te others? Well if you leave messages here ONLY your project members will see it, so if its private or even too trivial to go on a project blog, email list or wiki you can post it here to the people it concerns. You can even add private messages that only certain groups can see.

To-Do - Keep track of all your tasks in To-do lists. They are just as easy as they sound. If you want to do smoething make a note and everyone will know you are helping out, also your project may have an open list of to-dos, can yuo pick any of them off th elist and help out? Go ahead! But be sure to keep everyone up to date via messages.

Milestones - Some projects want to commit to certain tasks for a date so that it can give everyone a goal to work to. These are a really important part of the planner as it helps everyone feel that they are really making progress. Everythign else on the planner should be linked to these milestones so you can see a big list of what was done when. Keeping everything linked to dates will give everyone a great sense of satisfaction when they can look back and say look at all our hard work!

Writeboards - An electron Club Team project should be a team effort and so you can put up documents here for other people to help out on. Chat Files