What we'd do differently

We'd like to say that we would start earlier, but our design changed so drastically and repeatedly over the last hours of the project, due to breaking news about the level of functionality we could expect from other teams, that we don't believe significant improvement would have been gained. At most, we would have had time to improve the GUI and add interesting features like private channels or ``ops'' as in IRC, but we doubt that our learning to code such frivolous features is a goal of this course.

What we would like to do next time is to apply more pressure to ensure that the core pieces with which applications interface are well integrated and usable at a much earlier date. Two days (actually two days and one night) are not sufficient for any decent testing.