Die epische Team wurde zusammengestellt!

So the first day (Monday 12/3) was really good, we had a lot of information and the FH Joanneum university (the university hosting the event) has done a really good job on getting us to feel welcomed.
After a pretty smooth registration, where we got nice green shoulder bags and ID-cards, we had the official welcome by Tiina Piipponen from the Metropolia university (in Finland), Takashi Linzbichler and Dr. Karl P. Pfeiffer (both from FH Joanneum).
Then each of the students on each of the national teams was introduced on stage and we were officially introduced to our team members (although we already had met virtually in the IRC chatroom).
We had lunch and a lecture on international teamwork, where we were introduced to some concepts about the different cultural approaches to teamwork. Some dimensions in the approach on teamwork was introduced and we were asked to think about where we saw ourselves on the following scales:

• Linear time - Cyclic time
• Individual - Collective
• Informal - Formal
• Direct (low context) - Indirect (high context)
• Reserved - Expressive

This we incorporated in the our introductory presentation for the other team members. Afterwards we selected our new team name: The OpenMinds.
So from now on we will be known as The OpenMinds delevoping on the OpenARMS project!