semester goals

At the end of the semester I hope to better understand the problems, challenges, opportunities, and possible solutions to collaborating with a community of designers and users.  Everyone in a community has different goals, focuses, knowledge and cultural baggage.  The problem for a designer is the separate the kernels from the chaff.  This requires knowing what questions to ask and how to ask them.  It also requires knowing how to set priorities of importance and reconcile different people's diverging priorities.