Meeting October 29

Meeting Details:

Objective of meeting:

• Skeleton of the report
• What to include in the report?

In the meeting over at Hip diners, we discussed on the different things that we can include in our report and also how to beef up the report at the same time. We discussed as well how we can structure the report briefly with the advisor. This meeting helped ensure that the report would be up to the expectation of the advisor in-terms of the sections included in the report. There would be another meeting to finalize the structure and also evaluate what else we can add to the report on a later date.

My reflection:

I feel that this meeting helped us understand what does the advisor expect to see in the report and also show her our idea for the report and see if she agree with our vision of the report. This meeting help us craft the basic structure of the report and we decided in the meeting that we would need to add more things into the structure and thus a meeting would be required another day to see what we can add into the report with reference to previous FYP reports to see if we had missed out anything.

The team manage to craft out the basic structure of the report and also provide their idea of what should be included in the report. Everyone contributed by giving ideas for the report structure draft and we were able to have an idea of what we are suppose to do and what is supposed to be included in the report.

Meeting October 15

Meeting Details:

Objective of meeting:

• Draft out a brief skeleton for report
• discuss what are some of the basic elements of report

This meeting is set to craft out a skeleton for the report so as to show the advisor and seek her opinions before starting with report. This meeting gave us the time to prepare for the meeting with the advisor. This would help give us a smoother meeting with the advisor.

My reflection:

I think this meeting help us have a good idea of what we want in the report and also how we want the report to look like. The basic structure is there and we just have to add in more sections that we are likely to miss out if we spot any. I believe the meeting helped us by giving the team confidence of what is up ahead and what is needed to be done.

I believe the meeting gave me a better idea of where the team currently is and the progress of the team. It also gave me an idea of what is installed in future for the team and whether we need to push for more meetings. I was able to contribute some points to the structure as i vividly remembered what was included in my previous FYP report. Gave my suggestions on the board and everyone began to add on to the suggestion that i had and how it can be improved. Good team effort that i see from the meeting and we manage to have a smooth and effective meeting to draft out the rough structure of the report.

FYP Meeting 5

Meeting Details:

This meeting is conducted after the site visit and on-site surveys are done.

Objective

• To perform data entry for both public and sponsors survey
  
• Discuss next course of action after Singapore beer festival
• To set a date to perform research for literature review at national library

This meeting is essential as we discussed on items that need to be finalize before we can start our report writing. We need to understand how we are going to go about compiling the datas that we have collected and make use of them to analyze and present it in our report.


My Reflection:

I think this meeting helped us focus on how we are going to go about splitting the task up and complete the compilation of the survey. It was rather fruitful because we decided on how we can go about doing the compilation of the public survey with SPSS software. Suggested by Xiu hui and Ally(Mei Ping), they had experience using that software as they had used it before in last semester's FYP. We learnt how to use the software and started to compile the results that we had collected.

As for the sponsors survey, it was mostly open ended questions and thus SPSS software would not work. I took up the task of typing down all the answers that were discussed during the interview.

Crucial steps ahead of writing the report, we also discuss on some ideas on how we can approach the next step of the project. We also realised that we need to photocopy some notes from books that we have found in the national library to perform our literature review thus we set a date to go down to the national library and complete this task.

Event site Visits day 1 - 3

Event Site Visit day 1:

Objective of visit:

• Conduct public survey
  
• Meet up with Matt Bennette the organizer to show him our public survey form for approval.

The day's visit was to clear our public survey form with the organizer and get approval to start the public survey. That day was solely dedicated to the collection of public survey and the whole team went down to the event site to participate in the survey collection activity.


My reflection:

Basically the team was able to collect 100 public survey and meet our own target. We had limited time from the organizer to collect the survey as the organizers had their own public survey going around as well. Good performance by the team in collecting the targeted amount of survey in the limited amount of time. Crediting Xiu Hui as she collected the most number of survey for us while the others did well too collecting alot of surveys as well.

The public survey is not an easy task as we had limited amount of time. At the same time attendees there are either friendly or that they are drunk. Some attendees did not want to do the survey and thus we had to look for others. It is a good experience for the team and i can see alot of team effort being put into the visit. Everyone were tired but did their best to collect the targeted amount of survey.


Event Site Visit day 2:

Objective of visit:

• To conduct interview with major sponsors of Singapore Beer Festival
• To meet up with Matt Bennette, Singapore beer festival organizer to get approval for interviewing the sponsors.

This visit is crucial to the FYP project as we would hit on the most important part of the project, the sponsors' side of the picture in sponsorship. This would help us find out their expectation for sponsoring the event and also whether they are happy with the things that are provided to them by the organizer.

My reflection:

Rayson and I went to the site first before the rest as they had Understanding Tests. We went ahead to meet up with Matt Bennette, Singapore Beer Festival Organizer, to get his permission to start our interview with the sponsors.

In this visit, we managed to interview afew of their major sponsors in the likes of Brewerkz, Carlsberg and Prestige. The sponsors were generally friendly and willing to share things with us. There are also limitations like confidential information that they are not willing to share which we understand as industry secret and therefore a limitation to our report infuture as well. We manage to speak to the representative of the 3 sponsors and acheived what we set out for the day.


Event Site Visit day 3

Objective of visit:

• To conduct interview with another major sponsor AMEX

This visit solely to conduct the interview with AMEX representative who was not around on day 2 of the event and thus the trip down on day 3 to conduct that interview. The last sponsor that the organizer agreed to allow us to conduct interviews on and after-which we are done for the event.


My reflection:

I think this visit is a very short one as for the past few days, the team have been there at the event till late and this would be a short meeting as we just needed to speak to one last sponsor. The team spent some time searching for the sponsor's representative, just like what we did the previous day as they were moving aroudn the event vicinity.

The team manage to get hold of her and interviewed her. We managed to interview her and she provided us with some insights on why AMEX is there to sponsor the event which of course one of the reason is due to the fact that Singapore beer festival is first of its kind held in Singapore.