Advertise the project through articles in MAA Focus, AMS Notices, and various electronic newsgroups, solicit developers to submit their materials and faculty to contact us if interested in being involved in the project as reviewer, searcher, or curriculum organizer. Forum programmers start work on infrastructure. Begin working by email and finalize a draft at the July MAA MathFest. Focus group for each user service, discussions summarized and posted. Refine their methods so that they can deal with the reviewed material in late August and during the academic year.
Reviewers write survey papers describing applets and teaching units available by course.
Negotiations begin with applet authors regarding storage of applets work as source code or at least class files on our server and, as necessary, with institutions over intellectual property rights. Focus group for each user service, discussions summarized and posted. Mount an initial version of the digital library. Test initial version with users. Revise user interfaces to optimize value and convenience.