Manpower

The initial proposal estimated a requirement for 5 software developers with various skills, and one hyper-librarian to manage information sources.

In practice, we have had on average 3.5 people working on the project. Bernd Pollermann has worked full time on the FIND server. Tim Berners-Lee has worked full time coordiating the project and writing server and client software. Robert Cailliau has worked 50% of the time on the project, mainly on discussion of W3 with other groups, and on a Mac browser. Nicolla Pellow, a technical student, worked 100% on the project until leaving in August 1990. Jean-Francois Groff, a "cooperant", has just joined us for six months. Karin Gieselmann has had to abandon the idea of helping us due to health problems and impending early retirement. No other programmer was found to help with the X11 browser.

Conditions of work

The project members are divided over two divisions and located in two distinct areas, factores which have not been beneficial to productivity. For the time being, this split is tolerable, a compensating advantage being the connects with both divisions' other units.

Equipment has been sufficient .

External contacts

Both TBL and RC have spent some time liasing with interested groups outside CERN. This is partly because it became clear that to cover a wide spectrum of browsers and servers, outside effort would be necessary.

It also became obvious that there is much equivalent work going on in the information systems field, and it was felt that for the good of CERN we should align ourselves with common practices and standards as much as possible.

As a result of these contacts,

Offers of help can of course only be evaluated after the event, and it should be remembered that liason with ecternal groups can also take a lot of time.

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Tim BL