After having the meeting with the mentors, we decided to have a meeting on Friday evening, and plan the next week.

– We started the meeting with discussing what to ask during the interviews. Some of the issues that came up was:

• providing a brief overview of the field, and what is the state of the art technology.
• Trying to identify the customers need by asking questions like “what do you do in your lab?”, “What features would you like to see in a device?”
• What would you do with it if you have it?
• Offering them a visit from the lab?
• Let them taking their time, think about it and get back to us.
• maybe showing them the one pager.
• Asking specific questions like “would you pay for it if I have it ready in 6 months?

– Also we discussed the disclosure, and went through the disclosure form and assignments. As a results, we noticed that as long as we haven’t submitted this form, we can only interview the researchers at UBC as they are a part of UBC and no NDA is required.

– We also discussed the potential patent ideas!

– We decided to contact the potential researchers from our list both via phone and Email.

– Since we weren’t too sure if the people would get back to us on time, we decided to first interview the groups that we are already in contact with, and ask them to introduce us to other colleagues.

-We also voted and decided on the names for the community sharing website.

– Also, we decided to start posting on our blog. We have to mention here that the only reason that this was delayed was that we weren’t too sure about the appropriate level of confidentiality. We even have problem with updating our own research webpage!