*** Minutes of the Transport Empire meeting on 20040808 ***

--- Meeting begins ---

	People present:
		Arathorn, Hellfire667, Jpl, Metalcore424

--- Agenda ---

	1. Minutes
	2. Discuss progress FRD
	3. AOB
	4. Next meeting 

--- Minutes of the previous meeting on 20040731 ---

	The minutes are accepted, although the following comment was given:
	
	19:09 <@Hellfire667> I would like to see less quotes in the minutes, i.e.     
	"[01:23]<Hellfire667>: blah blah"

--- Discuss progress FRD ---

	The first 10 ideas have been added to the FRD. In the coming weeks, more ideas
	will be added to the FRD. Metalcore promised to add his share of the ideas
	today.

--- Any other business ---

	Arathorn has been approached for the Lead graphics artist position in the
	project and accepted the offer. The following tasks for the LGA have been
	mentioned: Creating graphics, checking and approving graphics from other
	authors, testing graphics in the game

	Arathorn asked for a graphics forum on the sourceforge page. This can be
	achieved, but would have to be done by Chris or Owen.

	Arathorn suggest a grf-like system for Transport Empire, which should be a lot
	easier than nfo's. But at least a combination of graphic files and information
	files with vehicle properties. Metalcore adds a comment that information files
	could be done in plaintext or XML.

	Metalcore suggests to get started on some sort of coding, to motivate people
	to join the project and work on the project. Hellfire replies that coding the
	real game will *not* start until at least some parts of the documentation have
	been completed. However, making some prototypes to test libraries like libpng
	can be done right now. We don't have to wait for that.

--- Next meeting ---

	Next meeting: Sunday, August 22nd @ 1600GMT.

	Targets:
	Metalcore: add ideas to the FRD
	Hellfire: make some prototypes