It is very comfortable to be a dark horse in a such competition as GLXP is. Or even lesser then that. Nobody really cares what you do, and if you show any progress.

In our Team's type of networked operations in Google Lunar X Prize competition we have one big advantage: we build hardware and software for our project parallel, so we can reach our goals very quickly. One rover is built here, another there, lander on third place in the world, and even with Interorbital Systems we don't have to share thriller feeling "Who gives propulsion to the Moon".

But there is one big danger: losing the drive and will to win. 

The regular weekly management conference call, and lot of them in between, now can't cover all the relevant activities.

Other teams perhaps did he same thing earlier, but our way is to do it right now: to squeeze our all former efforts with the project management software. Well, small team of three, Stjepan Bedić, once youngest captain in Croatia of airliner with 200+ seats and at the same time licensed quality manager in aerospace (welcome to the team!), Vilko Klein, our wireless guy, and my littleness, managed to put everything available to the project management software sharing it online for further elaboration worldwide.

We are not any more divided (more appropriate expression is "united") by the country where we do what we do - and now it is indeed spread over 20 countries - but by the mission profile divided to divisions according to processes leading to fulfilled mission. Each division has it's mission profile too, and all of them are gathered to common timeline bracketed by milestones, and smaller steps in between. 

Now everybody can see who is on time, who is ahead, and who is lagging. And in the moment everybody is aware to ask what is the cause of lagging offering a help to solve the problem, knowing our success is not depending solely on the local effort.

At the same time with this "big squeeze" we are not forgetting our forté we are specially proud of: our outreach efforts. Awareness about what we do is spread to all the continents except Antarctica (but our web analytic software tells us somebody, yet unknown there, is also watching our activities). On contrary, thanking to our activists we are putting even more efforts in our outreach department. The new thing is Internet radio. At http://synergyradio.caster.fm/ there will be scheduled broadcasts which will reach some 150 schools with astronomy and similar enthusiast groups with our interactive shows.

Privately speaking, all activities mentioned now could be divided in few blogs. But the final point is that these facts stay documented this way too, aren't they? :-)