If this all seems daunting for a newcomer, the Project Awesome team ensure that it is not – newbies are made to feel especially welcome right up until the end when I am forced inside the centre of a massive group – you guessed it – hug.
In expectation of all these newcomers, the project has already set up at least 30 real estate companies, bought more than 15 buildings and broken ground on 16 construction projects.
One fall newcomer, "The Mindy Project," features Mindy Kaling, who will leave the cast of "The Office".
Suzy Dodd, a "newcomer" to the project with just over 30 years' service, has also been intrigued by the spacecraft's durability.
Two standouts are Microsoft's Photosynth Project and newcomer Everyscape, which Brady Forest wrote about today on O'Reilly Radar.
And judging by the protests and lawsuits against the project, the newcomers were not especially welcome.
Yammer, Socialcast, and newcomers like Teambox offer project management features, such as Gant, timelines, and various methods to manage compliance issues and internal IT policies.
That can make it harder for newcomers to join a project, for example, and sometimes badly written documentation is worse than having no documentation at all.
"The Blair Witch Project" notwithstanding, the projections are bleak for most newcomers.
There is a "probationary period," one longtime resident explained, in which newcomers must "bottom line" a project — that is, they must see it to completion.
