Back in business
After much consideration, the possibility of taking a cesure in ESC Lille would have been a waste between the second and third year, given the opportunity of furthering the development of Swophit. I therefore chose to take it this year, instead of starting my second school year, so that I might have more time available then just the evenings.
So far I have more or less devised a game plan for this year:
I wrote comments all over my work to remember what I did last summer yesterday, and started debugging the change of server from xml.amazon.com to webservices.amazon.com. I’ll first get the DVD inventory to work, then get the CD and Video game inventories to work. I’ll then move to direct select, proposals and profile sections for all categories.
Only then will I create the French dictionary, along with a French Xoops site on fr.swophit.com. Then I’ll change the amazon locale to that of xoops’ language, in other words to the French locale. After all that, we should be operational.
In the mean time, I’ll redo the presentation slides and make them available online so I can present them to my advising professors, which I hope will be Mr Lutzen and Mr Prabhakar. I’ll then demo the site to the BDA, give them a business presentation, and make a deal with them, giving them all revenue, most likely under the condition they promote it. I’ll probably be handling everything from their bureau so I may get some direct feedback.
I’ll talk to the guy’s from Le Canard (school’s student newspaper) and try to make a first story. I’ll then see the school’s administration to see if some more news stories could be arranged, and what they are capable of, what contacts they have.
Meanwhile, I’ll see what goes wrong, correct and maintain the website according to whatever feedback I receive. If everything seems to go ok, I’ll contact another school, likely the EDHEC or IESEG (business schools would tend to have more buyers less pirates) and make a similar deal.
I’ll also ask users what joy they experience when buying a CD, DVD or Game. I have a few ideas.
1/ They excitement of going back home with something they can do something with
2/ The new / present factor
3/ The Artwork / display-on-shelf factor (that sometimes leads pirates to buy something, to have the artwork / manual
I plan on asking friends Charles, Stephanie and Alexandre who I know buy CDs, Alexis and Damien who buy DVDs, and many other who buy Video games.
Noretude, the Junior Entreprise of ESC Lille, might be able to help me out somehow.
My teacher Sandra Walker could give me good advice in trying to convince others to help out, and in how to do phoning.