Inside Information

After some interesting blog posts about technical stuff, it is now time to give you some inside information in the everyday proceedings at InMotion! What has happened in the mean time?

The team has recruited a couple of new team members; you can find them at our website (www.inmotion.tue.nl) where they explain their tasks in the team.  Because of these fresh recruits our old place became too small. Therefore, at the beginning of this month we moved to a new location. We received the key of a fine office space for ourselves. The office is located in the ‘Multi Media Paviljoen’, a building where several spin-off companies from the university are located.

A large number of people immediately (accidentally or not) walked into our new office and were curious about what this group of young people were up to. After a brief explanation and showing our models, they all were very enthusiastic about the project; the first meeting with the neighbors was a fact! After a number of these spontaneous visits, soon the idea of an ‘office warming’ was suggested. It will take place quickly enough! But first our office needs to be furnished.

Now, a few weeks later, we are already quite settled. Everyone has their place secured (sometimes literally). The desktops and laptops are installed and everyone has a nice place for its own. Two team member birthdays have been celebrated and the first team meetings have already taken place.

About these team meetings; quite some time of the first meetings has been spend on furnishing our crib. The place where the magic happens is already reasonably and well-furnished and we can get started, but... some people are still working to get the furnishing fit together, to make it a whole. For this, our initiator takes the initiative. The problem is that he will spend quite a lot of time to get what he wants, and he wants a lot! You can call it quite a lot of time when first a 3D model of the building is made after which also the furniture is modeled to get some idea about how to decorate the place… You can imagine that this takes some time. But nevertheless, in the Netherlands they say: "A good job needs time ', but then in Dutch of course…

Furthermore we went with our team to the Automechanika fair in Frankfurt, it began as an interesting hunt for potential partners, but ultimately it felt more like a fun team outing. The ’fun’ began with a 3.5 hour trip to Frankfurt. Every hour the initiator initiated a stop because of his back problems. This gave us the chance to have breakfast and lunch at the ‘yellow bows’ restaurants. 

After expanding our networks at the fair to the max, we went home, satisfied. Not only satisfied about our day but also in the knowledge that we are driving back at the German Autobahn: ‘Sie kӧnnen TAUSEND fahren!’

Thanks for reading our blog posts and do not forget to visit us some time at our new office! (http://inmotion.tue.nl/contact)