[Distributed_systems] week 8-13 (or not?)

[Lukács Dániel]

I think we should cancel our collaboration attempts in creating common 
teaching materials this semester, and instead we should just keep doing 
our own thing in the labs (except for conducting nagybeadandó and exams, 
where it is mandatory).


My reasons:

1. Currently, there is very little discussion going on about the 
contributed work items (incl. Péter's video), whether you can use them 
or how would you change them to be able to use them. It's very hard to 
create useful tools when you don't get any feedback from your users. And 
there is no point in sharing stuff if the team members don't care enough 
to review and use them.

2. The same goes for standard formats. Obviously, it's not really 
possible to collaborate without following a common standard. Students 
cannot work with a different format every week, and it's hard on the 
teacher as well. Yet in two weeks almost no discussion happened about 
common class and assignment format whatsoever. (Actually, the topic 
seems to be deliberately avoided in lots of cases.) It's not discussed 
whether it matches your needs, or what would you like to change, or 
whether you have a better system.

3. Finally, Tamás also seemed to be in doubt during yesterday's meeting, 
yet at 03-27 he was the originator of this idea of having videos to 
increase interactive work during class. It may be a good idea to wait 
until someone with authority makes up their mind on how things should 
look like in this course. Without a clear goal, there is really no point 
pushing and forcing people to do something.


I'm mostly interested in hearing Márk's and Péter's opinion about this 
move, since they are already actively contributing useful ideas and 
materials. (Thank you for that!)

Either way, Robi's original schedule will keep us more or less in sync.


Dániel