My Favorite Milestones in 2000

Issues closed:

Week ending:

5 Jan 2001

1/1 Holiday
1/2 Interview tb candidate
1/5 Release Team: significant discussion about AUI configs
1/5 edolan weekly: email triage that fits time available
1/4 DSpace weekly: check-ins. Planning for next month.
DSpace:

• Reviewed Site Map.
  
• Read paper on how remote invocation MUST be treated differently than local. (Summary: Some remote invocations are provably indeterminant. Failing to pay attention to this results in programs that cannot recover from partial errors.)
  
• Investigated Kerberized CVS for Windows.
  
• Took delivery of systems and monitors. (Need video cards)
  

Lead Athena Team:

• Prepared for next week's interview.
  
• Interviewed candidate, gathered feedback, and decided on next steps.
  
• Read new resume that came in and decided on next steps.
  
• Produced draft quarterly report.
  

Champion Athena UNIX

• Reviewed Star Portal White Paper and used it to push in favor of Star Office (without portal) collaboration. Fatal Flaw: Star Portal is Star Office + Netscape.
  
• Reviewed AUI configuration plans.
  
• Produced mini-spec's for 4 proposed Athena Team projects
  

Academic Computing:

• Provide performance review input for 2 members of other teams.

29 Dec 2000

12/25 Holiday
12/27 edolan meeting
<report for two weeks next week>

22 Dec 2000

12/18 edolan meeting
12/18 efc meeting
12/19 DSpace weekly
12/19 ILEAD
DSpace:

• Catch up on backlog of technical email -- "Data", "Expose" and "Export" threads --DONE
  
• Catch up on backlog of "getting started" email -- DONE
  
• F-Secure closure -- expect CD soon.
  
• Revised admin-checklist.txt doc
  
• Forwarded bug about 'screen' to folks who got it fixed.
  

Lead Athena Team:

• Read 6 resumes and decide disposition. Punted 2. Forwarded 3, plan to interview 1.
  
• Organized table of candidates
  
• Move forward on Athena PR
  
• Brought vacation log up to date.
  
• Did review of Athena_PR doc with pbh. (Also showed him team-vision.html)
  

Champion Athena UNIX

• Opted into AUI. It IS more usable!

15 Dec 2000

12/11 Owls
12/11 Ed Dolan meeting
12/12 DSpace checking with Mick
12/12 IS Forum
12/13 Vijay Kumar strategy meeting
12/13 Release Team (Ed Dolan guest)
12/13 Roger strategy meeting
12/13 IS Holiday Party
12/15 AUI Delivery Handoff
12/15 Follow-up interview
12/15 W92 Holiday Party
DSpace

• Read JAAS white paper. Asked questions about mapping in our design for rights management to it.
  
• Ordered hardware after much pondering and discussion.

Revised my sense of my roles and priorities

• Second priority is getting useful work done.
  
• First priority is making my workload sane, and my sense of what to do clear.
  
• My primary allegiance is to Academic Computing. DSpace Second. UNIX Athena Third.
  
• We are on track for more extensive conversations about long range team direction.
  
• I'm getting out of the "do two impossible things before breakfast" mode!
  
• Goodness! I'd not done weekly status in a month!
  
• Documented my roles in a web page.
  
• Redesigned and further simplified my reporting, and brought it up to date.

UNIX Athena Champion:

• Put Star Office into perspective. Recommending parallel projects to explore VMWare and Star Office improvement.
  
• Met with ganderso, rferrara, and amb to make sure AUI will go smoothly through Delivery without extensive involvement by me.
  
• Nudged MIT Council on Star Office licenses.

Athena Team Leader

• Brought candidate in for second interview and exploration of his interest in what work we have on offer.
  
• Reviewed place of IS Forum with Team members. But I poorly communicated my ideas about how team members could "take more control of their destiny".
  
• More review of Athena PR pages. Trying to get some illustrations made.

8 Dec 2000

12/5 Dspace Weekly
12/5 OCMG: Customer Satisfaction Survey Review
12/6 DSpace Nick Wainright Meeting
12/7 Ed Dolan meeting
12/8 DSpace Data Design with Scott Thorne
Summary:
Extensive conversations about my role, committments (both in Athena in in DSpace), and directions for the Athena team.
DSpace

• Set December objectives
  
• Began work on filling hardware need: 2 systems, and 3 monitors
  
• Dealt with HP no longer selling out-of-the-box Linux Athena system.
  
• Pushed HP to do better Linux Support.
  
• Investigated who might help DSpace redesign its space to accomodate 2 more employees.

Athena Unix Champion:

• Revised Dell Try and Buy for Athena.
  
• Did extensive pushing to help AUI into delivery. But the demo by Susan Jones, and the conversations by Greg Anderson really pushed us over the top.

1 Dec 2000

11/27 Star Office Conference Call
11/27 Owls
11/28 DSpace Weekly
11/28 ILEAD: Homeroom projects
11/29 Interview tb candidate
11/30 out sick
Summary:
Dealt with having a cold.
Got disappointing news about Star Office architecture, and prospects for collaboration with MIT. Escallated to Vijay.
Interviewed Candidate.
Lots of work understanding my roles and committments.

24 Nov 2000

11/20 Tjm
11/21 DSpace Weekly
11/22 Release Team
11/22 Service Team Leaders: Budget Update
11/23 Holiday
11/24 Holiday
Summary:
Lead Athena Team

• Redrafted UNIX vision doc.
  
• Recrafted UNIX vision as Team vision doc and circulated.
  
• Began conversations with Directors about setting direction for the Team

Athena UNIX Champion:

• Discussed projects and initiatives appropriate to UNIX and Athena.

17 Nov 2000

11/13 Owls
11/13 checkin w/rferrara
11/14 DSpace weekly
11/15 Release Team (Cancelled)
11/16 DSpace All Day
11/17 DSpace All Day
DSpace:

• Helped finish filling in evaluation Framework
  
• Produced handouts.
  
• Participated in 2 day review.

10 Nov 2000

11/7 DSpace Weekly
11/7 Strategy meeting with ganderso
11/8 Release Team
DSpace

• Pursuing a F-Secure beta for SOCKSified command line scp and sftp programs.
  
• Forwarded question about getting Oracle.
  
• Set goals for the 33 shopping days till little-D.
  
• Reviewed aspects of authentication under discussion for little-D.
  
• Wrote Rights Management Minimum Core Functionality doc.
  

Fill position opened by departure of Thomas Bushnell

• Brought tbelton up to speed on his writing Athena PR pages.
  
• Supplied ideas and some words for Athena PR pages.
  
• Reviewed a draft of Athena PR pages written by tbelton. Suggested some ideas to finish them off.
  

Mentor Deliver and Service Athena Team

• Wrote "A Vision for UNIX Athena", got feedback from team on it made revisions.
  
• Spent significant time discussion Athena futures with vkumar, longpd, birdland, and ganderso
  
• Discussed Athena and Pismere with tomt
  
• Discussed "A Vision for UNIX Athena" with ganderso
  

Get X server from SGI that does not die on DanW's test case.
Coach and Coordinate Project work: AUI, APSE, Linux Athena, etc.

• Brought tbelton into AUI team to work on usability, scripting, and configuring stuff.
  
• Reviewed plans for menu system in AUI.
  
• Helped work through some personality conflicts on AUI.
  
• Led a review of a draft of the AUI deliverables and tasks.
  
• Wrote an AUI mini-project plan as a step towards moving it into delivery.
  
• Discussed remaining project management docs required for AUI with amb.
  
• Reviewed AUI mini-project plan with team and with ganderso. Revised, and added to notebook.
  

Reduce number of issues I'm working!

• I'm dropping "
  

Get Sun to improve performance of install." We care about speed, but not enough. Maybe Sun will clue in, but I'm gonna take this item off my queue.
Unplanned efforts

• Helped customer get personal data suppressed from mitdir.
  
• Schmoozed with our Sun sales rep for an hour or so.
  
• Spent an hour chatting about Workstation purchasing with surveyor from The Gartner Group.
  
• Chatted with Phil Long for a couple hours on Athena Academic Computing long term strategy.
  
• Brought a high level technical manager at Dell up to speed on the unique aspects of Athena.
  
• Helped spec out new Dell configuration.
  
• Helped sort out room assignmnents in W92 as rferrara moves out of office shared with ganderso.

3 Nov 2000

10/30 Owls
10/30 meeting w/longpd
10/31 DSpace weekly
10/31 Meeting w/vkumar and co. Re: Athena Development.
11/1 Release Team
11/3 Project Team Leaders -- Took Minutes
11/3 DSpace planning w/bass
See Above 2 weeks status

27 Oct 2000

10/24 ILEAD -- Reviewed performance appraisal process.
10/25 Release Team
10/26 DSpace weekly

20 Oct 2000

10/16 Owls: Stopit, and Quickstations
10/18 Release Team: Total focus on Athena strategy
10/19 DSpace Weekly:ERD work.
DSpace

• Slapped F-secure for not answering my questions. -- got answers. Disappointing ones.
  
• Got second set of F-Secure answers -- that beta does what we want, if we can get beta...
  
• Revised hardware staging paper. Sent task list to appropriate people to begin filling in unknowns.
  
• Complained to HP sales contacts about how the site prep guide isnt on the HP web site any more.
  
• Brainstormed Entity Relationship Diagram for DSpace. Got a lot further than I expected. We think we have finessed the rights management with much elegance.
  

Fill position opened by departure of Thomas Bushnell

• Received status report from Elena McCall that spurred pondering of how to improve search.
  
• Asked for help in further focusing the search and the job title.
  
• Revised job description and title.
  
• Brainstormed promotional web pages about working at Athena.
  
• Began a draft of some "How is Athena Different" web pages. Maybe they'll prove useful.
  

Mentor Deliver and Service Athena Team

• Took some time at Release team to discuss future directions for Athena development.
  
• Started working on some mentoring team members to do things I've been doing.
  
• Coordinated a planned office shuffle.
  
• Revised team template fill-in.
  
• Established some quarterly report measurement to be done by ghudson.
  
• Got some measures prepared for the IS Quarterly report
  

Get X server from SGI that does not die on DanW's test case.

• Received another status report from SGI: No progress.
  
• Poked at SGI about service un-responsiveness in Zip situation as symptomatic of why we should not do business with them. Discovered SGI was being more responsive than I thought.
  

Coach and Coordinate Project work: AUI, APSE, Linux Athena, etc.

• Long meeting with ganderso to check in on status and explore strategy and tactics.
  
• Took inventory of what Athena developers are doing.
  
• Checked in on StarOffice legal stuff. 3 docs pending. Change requests sent from MIT to Sun.

13 Oct 2000

10/9 Holiday
10/10 DSpace planning
10/11 DSpace RDF meeting
10/11 Release Team
10/11 DSpace planning
10/12 DSpace Weekly
DSpace

• Read 2 resumes and sent analysis.
  
• Proposed yet another way to do secure connection and web-collaboration with Corvallis.
  
• Reviewed services framework surveying by pbreton.
  
• Got our CVS repository requirements sorted out, and commissioned the creation of the repository itself.
  
• Found more use for RDF.
  
• Dealt with the fact that HP 90 monitors advertise parameters that in fact are outside their operating range.
  
• Requested info on using a particular SSH/SCP/SFTP client with SOCKS from vendor.
  
• Set October goals.
  

Fill position opened by departure of Thomas Bushnell

• Read one resume. (Now I gotta figure out what to do with it.)
  

Mentor Deliver and Service Athena Team

• Took some time at Release team to discuss future directions for Athena development.

Get X server from SGI that does not die on DanW's test case.

• Received another status report from SGI: No progress.

Coach and Coordinate Project work: AUI, APSE, Linux Athena, etc.

• Worked on focusing AUI work onto having something to show to directors, that for cost X you get value Y, in calendar time T.
  
• Suggested APSE folk fetch Open StarOffice Source.
  
• Reviewed revised AUI Notebook pages. They are improved at commuicating the work that is being done, and the value of the work to customers.
  

6 Oct 2000

10/2 Publishing Survices Bureau icon meeting
10/3 DSpace requirements Brainstorming meeting
10/4 Release Team
10/5 DSpace weekly
10/6 Vacation
DSpace

• Finished requirements brainstorming effort.
  
• Revised collaborative development methodology doc.
  
• Did some investigation of secure remote access.
  
• Helped bass with XML stuff.
  
• read new FEDORA Paper
  
• Reviewed RDF, and established my opinion of what we should do with it.
  
• read papers on Warwick framework and sent position paper/critique to dspace-dev.
  
• Did some prep work for upcoming meeting with RDF folks.

Coach and Coordinate Project work: AUI, APSE, Linux Athena, etc.

• Sat down with amb and worked through the AUI Prioritized list of tasks.
  
• Attended meeting with Publishing Services Board on AUI icon design. I think we came to closure on some issues.
  
• Received NDA and Source eval from Sun. Forwarded to MIT Council.
  

Reduce number of issues I'm working!

• Emailed bosses and asked them to think about DSpace as 50% activity

29 Sep 2000

9/25 Owls:Zero Cost Athena issues.
9/26 Interview candidate for Athena Server Operations slot.
9/27 Release Team: Linux Things, Patch Release
9/27 Service Team Leaders --skipped out to work on DSpace.
9/27 DSpace weekly: planning for next steps of project
9/28 Visit from HP Bristol folk
9/28 W92 Open House
9/29 DSpace Requirements brainstorm -- got more than halfway done in only 4 hours!
DSpace

• Completed draft of collaborative dev methodology doc.
  
• Read and critiqued 3 articles on project risk management.
  
• Made sure hardware architecture is well documented.
  
• Thought about asset store issues, and sent a couple critiques.
  
• Reviewed 1 resume and sent critique.
  
• Interviewed a Student Intern.
  
• Sanity checked hiring of a contractor
  
• Got contractor and student intern tuned into Athena.
  
• Worked at rationalizing the access control lists for DSpace lockers and lists.
  
• Participated in SEVERAL LONG meetings working through requirements and planning.
  

Coach and Coordinate Project work: AUI, APSE, Linux Athena, etc.

• Went over prioritized list of StarOffice issues with amb -- I have a few tests of Star office to make to see if my favorite bugs are fixed yet.
  
• Worked at coordinating Sun legal and MIT legal on StarOffice issues.
  
• Re-tested my personal StarOffice peeves and emailed apse with my results.
  
• Got tonnes of feedback on the AUI project from Tibbetts.
  

Fill position opened by departure of Thomas Bushnell

• Confirmed that position has a Requisition number and has been posted.

Get X server from SGI that does not die on DanW's test case.

• Received a weekly status report from SGI. (Still no progress, but someone is officially working on it.)

Unplanned efforts

• StarOffice folks are sorting out what agreement(s) they want us to sign.
  
• Produced text describing the Deliver/Service Athena team for the templates now required.
  
• Did budget review for the Deliver/Service Athena team.

22 Sep 2000

9/19 Bill & Bob: Ran out of time, but did quick checkins.
9/20 DSpace Weekly
9/22 Interview Student Intern
9/22 Project Team Leaders: discussed budgeting and templates. I sent out minutes.
(got backlogged. report on 2 weeks above.)

15 Sep 2000

9/11 MITAG presentation of DSpace
9/13 Release Team -- missed it.
9/13 DSpace weekly: Think about Professor Dewey's project, outside work, and other planning.
9/14 Discovery Team Leaders -- punted.
DSpace

• Presented to ITAG. Issues: Bandwidth, Access Control, Authentication.
  
• Reviewed 5 resumees and sent critiques.
  
• Read Product Design and Development article and sent critique
  
• Worked with dstuve on hardware spec. Helped validate changes from bass's architecture.
  
• Read and critiqued SEI paper on risk management. I threw the paper away it was so useless.
  
• Reviewed proposal from W91 to house DSpace -- team found one issue. Forwarded it to lambert.
  
• Worked on paper defining DSpace collaboration methodology.
  

Fill position opened by departure of Thomas Bushnell

• Beat the bushes for feedback on job description
  
• Reviewed outgoing Globe ad.
  

Coach and Coordinate Project work: AUI, APSE, Linux Athena, etc.

• Checked in on web pages for AUI, APSE, and Linux -- still pending work
  
• Sent a note with my aesthetics for aui.
  
• Checked in with amb on how to resolve some aui team conflicts and how to set direction for the project. Suggested some risk management ideas.
  
• Discussed some aui issues with yak, amb and beland.
  

Unplanned efforts

• Attended Forever-Tech meeting. Asked a few questions of scale that seemed to help others in scoping out the effort.
  
• Help field last minute discovery that Netscape Java 1.3 was not working as it should have for 1.00. tbelton came in on Sunday. ccount and alexp assisted greatly.

8 Sep 2000

9/4 Holiday
9/5 DSpace planning
9/5 DSpace housing meeting with lambert
9/6 Hiring meeting with Elena McCall
9/6 Release Team -- cancelled
9/6 DSpace weekly -- cancelled to focus on work.
9/8 Meet with CG Team candidate
9/8 DSace ITAG presentation prep.
9/8 Preferred Computer Vendor RFS meeting -- Moved forward on what we learned from our experiences with NECX.
DSpace

• Met with Dave Lambert and proposed housing for DSpace hardware.
  
• Met with Mick Bass to plan the work for the month ahead.
  
• Reviewed one resume and sent critique.
  
• Helped work on presentation for MIT Architecture Group
  
• Reviewed bid from Exodus to house our systems.
  
• Wrote up my notes on Rights Management.
  
• Drafted staging/hardware-turn-on plan.
  

Fill position opened by departure of Thomas Bushnell

• Worked on job description, competency model, ad copy and level setting with Elena McCall.
  
• Discussed job and leadership issues with amb and rbasch.
  
• circulated draft to directors, team, and DSpace mgmt
  

Coach and Coordinate Project work: AUI, APSE, Linux Athena, etc.

• Reviewed email traffic on apse, aui, and long-jobs mailing lists.
  
• Checked in with amb for status on AUI and APSE work -- task lists and project notebooks are being revised.
  
• Checked in with Sun and MIT Legal on Star Office Licence work -- they're confused and need a little clarification.

1 Sep 2000

8/28 Owls: Chatted with Dell Representative.
8/29 W92 Team Leaders: Update on W92 issues.
8/30 Adolan: Hot Technology review of team members
8/30 Release Team: Linux checkins.
8/30 DSpace Weekly: Steering Comm. Feedback. Project planning.
8/31 Discovery Team Leaders: Cancelled
8/31 MIT Press/ DSpace: Extensive review of DSpace and MIT Press projects.
Reduce number of issues I'm working!

• Sun source code issue is now CLOSED
  
• amb is taking ownership of APSE locker.
  
• amb is taking ownership of Linux Task List.
  
• Moved 'Deliver appropriate Software License monitoring and enforcement' to Owls-led effort.
  
• Change role on AUI, APSE, and Linux to Coach and Coordinate.
  

DSpace

• Read 2 resumees and sent critiques.
  
• Read FEDORA Dlib article. (Very hard to understand prose. Interesting ideas.)
  
• Read 2 articles on Sun Java 2 Enterprise Platform. Sent critique.
  
• Pushed HP to give me more data on configuring systems.
  
• Began looking for where to house DSpace servers.
  
• Learned about HP Hardware. Recommended amendments to hardware proposal.
  
• Initiated contact with another candidate.
  

Coach and Coordinate Project work: AUI, APSE, Linux Athena, etc.

• Reviewed latest SIPB Linux Efforts in email and with Release Team
  
• Reviewed Linux Athena tasks, revised table, dispatched work to revise the linux web pages to incorporate it, and to do a better job of outreach.
  
• Reviewed APSE project notebook and suggested next steps.
  
• Reviewed longjobs test proposal. Gave political advice.
  

Get X server from SGI that does not die on DanW's test case.

• Further conversations with SGI. Preparing to hand this off to rbasch.
  

Fill position opened by departure of Thomas Bushnell

• Wrote draft of position description/competency model asked CG Team for help with it.
  

Mentor Deliver and Service Athena Team

• Reviewed classifications of team members for Hot Technology Survey. Changed a couple clusters.
  

Unplanned efforts

• Fielded question about who from MIT should be on the Open AFS Advisory board. Visited stakeholders, recommended Ted McCabe. (Also let Transarc know of our address changes.)
  
• Provided input to MCC Request for Solutions
  

25 Aug 2000

8/21-25 Vacation

18 Aug 2000

8/14 Owls
8/15 ACMG
8/15 Bill & Greg and amb APSE/AUI chat
8/16 DSpace
8/17 Discovery Team Leaders
8/18 Vacation

11 Aug 2000

8/7 DSpace user-cases doc review
8/9 Release Team
8/9 Service TL
8/10 IS BBQ
Redo the fee structure and model for Athena to encourage more sites to adopt it.

• Chatted with Vijay and gave him overview of new structure at IS BBQ
  

Reduce number of issues I'm working!

• Star Office has agreed to collaborate credibly, Applix has been deleted from my vendor liaison task list.
  
• Spent time talking with ganderso and vkumar about load shedding.
  

DSpace

• Did a review and revise of the user cases document. Now it's ready to be seen by the Steering Commmittee
  
• Had a look at Mick's proposed hardware configuration.
  

Mentor Athena User Interface Project.

• Conference call on StarOffice. Much progress on collaboration.
  
• Met with usability team.
  
• Took Larry Stone XML templates and made project page for APSE; handed it to amb.
  
• Further ramp-up of amb as leader.
  

Get X server from SGI that does not die on DanW's test case.

• Last week reproduced bug on IRIX 6.5.7
  
• Sent email kicking people and asking for closure.
  
• Heard that bug was fixed 8 aug. Asked for a point patch.
  

Mentor Deliver and Service Athena Team

• Did up preliminary Linux Athena project list and sent it to amb to be a template for AUI work.

4 Aug 2000

7/31 Bill & Bob -- went over projects and people.
7/31 Owls -- came to closure on a recommendation for Athena cost model with proper incentives.
8/1 Athena Team meeting -- W92 Move follow-up, welcome Andrew Boardman, discuss open position.
8/1 Meeting with Dell saleswoman -- gave much history.
8/2 Release Team -- Linux Athena screen size issue.
8/2 DSpace weekly -- Getting started with David Stuve, finding way with HP folk
8/3 Last minute meeting and luncheon with engineer from HP.
8/3 Discovery Team Leaders -- apparently cancelled
8/4 Ex-Libris Demo
Redo the fee structure and model for Athena to encourage more sites to adopt it.

• Owls came to closure on a recommendation. Naomi wrote it up. It soon goes to Vijay for approval.

Deliver appropriate Software License monitoring and enforcement.

• Explained the issue to Andrew Boardman, and put it into his queue.

DSpace

• Meeting with HP guy.
  
• Updated scenarios document. Renamed it to user-cases.
  
• Read a couple resumees.
  
• Produced a bio for the DSpace web pages.
  
• Reviewed web pages.
  
• Discussed direction of the project with dstuve, and others.
  
• Helped get things set up for HP personnel to remotely update the web site. Thank God for Host Explorer.
  
• Began process of taking over ownership of service document from Larry.

Reduce number of issues I'm working!

• Put AUI, APSE, and Linux Athena officially onto Andrew Boardman (Note that there is still a lot of work I must do to transition this.)

Mentor Athena User Interface Project.

• Worked as ambasador between the team members and Andrew.
  
• Got owls to review APSE criteria document and sent request for mods to Beland.

Mentor Deliver and Service Athena Team

• Team meeting followed up on move.
  
• Did Exit interview of Thomas Bushnell

Fill position opened by departure of Thomas Bushnell

• Discussed competency model a bit with the team.

Unplanned

• [MAIN] Get Andrew Boardman oriented and begin to transition duties to him.
  
• Got myself a new office desk, installed keyboard trays, and re-installed my machines.
  
• Gave a tour of my office to my DSpace friends.
  
• Attended a briefing on one of the candidate systems for 3rd barton.
  
• Reviewed some delivery reports and gave feedback.
  
• Worked on issue of Sun Source that matches our Binaries

28 July 2000

7/24 AUI/MIT Publication Services -- talked about some graphic refinements to Athena Gnome
7/24 PACK
7/25 MOVE to W92
7/25 ILEAD -- discussion of promotions, salary increses, and revision to performance reviews.
7/26 Release team cancelled
7/26 DSpace weekly meeting -- photographs, mission, content criteria, moving forward on hiring, final amendments to office space.
7/27 DSpace hiring meeting -- agreed on job posting and process.
7/28 Sirsi OPAC Demo.
7/28 Sheelah Britt retirement
CLOSED Issue: 7/24/2000 SGI Patch to remedy AFS problem on Indys shipped to MIT Public.
Redo the fee structure and model for Athena to encourage more sites to adopt it.

• Raised at Owls on 7/17, and visited with Bill Fitzgerald on this issue.
  

Write statement of my goals for Performance Review phase II.

• Moved goals to separate web page.
  

Get X server from SGI that does not die on DanW's test case.

• Demonstrated bug to AUI watchmakers week of 21 Jul.
  

DSpace

• Meetings with Harvard
  
• Reviewed hiring plans and process
  
• Reviewed progress on getting more hardware
  
• Worked issue of broken Desktop system.
  
• Wrote new draft of Scenarios document
  
• Reviewed public web page plans and design.
  
• Thought more about project staffing issues.
  

Mentor Athena User Interface Project.

• Met with MIT Publications Services Bureau
  
• Put Andrew Boardman into Loop for AUI/APSE management.
  
• Reviewed status and designs for gZephyr and other aspects.
  
• Got some connections established between the AUI team and the Usability team.
  

Mentor Deliver and Service Athena Team

• Reviewed measures
  
• Helped people sort themselves out for the move
  

Unplanned

• Found a way to get Star Office support and put it in Alex Prengel's queue.
  
• Made contact with Star Office product manager
  
• Had some further licensing discussions with Transarc
  
• Beat Sun up about Source Code some more.

21 July 2000

7/17 Owls: Discussed AUI and APSE projects. Discussed Athena fee structure.
7/18 Team Athena: Present Forever Tech project, prepare for move, go over measures.
7/18 Big meeting to learn logistics of W92 move.
7/19 Release Team -- final chat before roll out of Public. SGI fix is in.
7/19 Private Workstation Owners Guide discussion
7/19 DSpace meets with Harvard Library Digital Inititiative.
7/20 Discovery Team Leaders (I had to punt)
7/20 DSpace hosts Harvard LDI folks and tells about DSpace.
Made no time to keep milestones up to date See above.
CLOSED Issue: 7/19/2000 Andrew Boardman accepted our offer and starts 31 July 2000.

14 July 2000

7/10 Eric Celeste
7/11 Forever Tech Meeting
7/12 DSpace
7/12 Release Team
7/13 Discovery Offsite
7/14 tjm
Made no time to keep milestones up to date. See above.

7 July 2000

7/3 Vacation
7/4 Holiday
7/5-7/7 Vacation

30 June 2000

6/26-6/30 Vacation

23 June 2000

6/19 Owls: Release status, and AUI stuff.
6/20 Naomi Schmidt retirement party.
6/20 ACMG: EMCC web project
6/21 IT Partners: I present on Linux Athena.
6/21 Release Team.
6/21 Depart for Corvallis
6/22-23 Meeting with HP Corvallis
DSpace

• Made travel plans to Corvallis
  
• Installed 3 Linux Athena desktop systems, upgraded the software to Athena 8.4, and configured them to use all memory.
  
• Invited Todd Belton to work part time on DSpace as Web developer.
  
• Wrote document with vivid descriptions of scenarios for use. Got review of it, converted to web page.
  

Reduce number of issues I'm working!

• Will take 2 weeks vacation at end of Corvallis trip.
  
• Partnering with Kathleen Moriarty of MCC on issues of keeping the Athena supported configurations up to date when vendors change things.
  
• Trying to thick slice myself on 3 things: Athena release, DSpace, and Athena UI.
  

Mentor Athena User Interface Project.

• Suggested creation of mailing list for Office Productivity efforts.
  
• Suggested that Owls be involved in current ponderings about trying to improve on Dash.
  
• Took Athena Office Suite effort to Owls. Brought Beland and other AUI folks together with Owls: Athena Productivity Suite Exploration. "apse".
  
• Gave Owls a heads up that some interesting designs are being contemplated for the AUI replacement of Dash.
  

Fill Position opened by Departure of Dan Winship

• Requested clarification. (But candidate is traveling and may not reply this week.)
  
• Discussed with Allison, and decided to go ahead with official offer letter and Post Search Review in the absense of clarification from candidate who is incomunicado in the north.
  
• Supplied missing resumees for Post Search Report
  
• Watched as both Star Office and Applix choked on RTF version of Post Search Report.
  
• Reviewed Post Search Report.
  

SGI AFS problem.

• Gave report to owls: no change: no hardware fix, no Transarc fix, no status report from SGI.
  
• Asked Bob Basch to check on SGI status.
  

Mentor Deliver and Service Athena Team

• Worked with Todd Belton on planning next project he works on.
  
• Worked with Larry Stone on thinking about new projects, changing ongoing duties, and improving his desktop work environment.
  

Unplanned efforts
Helped deal with Dell changing product line out from under us for Linux Athena. Partnered with someone in MCC to make this problem happen less often.
Pushed Sun HARD to get us source that matches binaries in the field since it now impacts the upcoming Athena release.
Did test-install of Linux Athena on system to be used for my demo to IT Partners.
Worked on IT Partners Linux talk with Gayle Willman
Created new tapeset and did replacement epoch dump on Memory Ultra in Larry 's absence.

16 June 2000

6/12 Eric Celeste -- cancelled.
6/14 Release Team
6/15 Bob Hart Retirement Party
6/15 rferrara: Checking in on team.
6/16 interview of Academic Leader candidate.
6/16 DSpace: a few little things.
<weekly merged with 23 June>

9 June 2000

6/3-6/6 Digital Library 2000 Conference, San Antonio Texas.
6/7 Release Team -- cancelled
6/8 Discovery Team leaders: discussion of role of Standing Team leaders in helping people on project teams.
6/8 tjm: good discussion of various issues.
6/8 Sun conference call: Discussed how Linux meets our needs better than Solaris, and simple steps Sun can take to remedy this.
6/9 Brian McDonald Metrics check-in: good discussion of customer-focused goals, and how to measure them.
6/9 Tai Chi: almost missed it!
6/9 DSpace: Long meeting, many issues of space, personnel, and travel planning.
6/9 IS Social in W91: Got there after it was over. :-(
DSpace

• Attended DL 2000
  
• Read Roscheisen's Framework for Interoperable Rights Management Paper and wrote a review of it, and my conclusions about its relationship to DSpace.
  
• Made formal request for desktop systems to get moved from my office to their final location.
  
• Took delivery of 3 button mice, delivered them, and learned more about properly addressing packages.
  
• Discussed travel arrangements to Corvallis
  

Get Sun to improve performance of install.

• Had conference call with Sun Engineers on why Linux is better than Sun.
  

SGI AFS problem.

• Got status report from Transarc. Clarified our time requirements. We'll probably do an SGI-only software fix for Athena 8.4.

Mentor Athena User Interface Project.

• Ongoing tracking of aui list traffic and occasional nudge of mentoring.
  

Reduce number of issues I'm working!

• Decided to drop
  

SGI Application Server Discovery from my plate until further notice.
Fill Position opened by Departure of Dan Winship

• Received harried response from candidate. Will ask for clarification next week.

Considered doing a Linux presentation for IT Partners
Helped Larry Stone plan some time away.

2 June 2000

5/29 Holiday: worked butt off at home on house projects.
5/30 ACMG: Panel discussion on how other schools are doing student owned systems.
5/31 Watchmaker orientation: I gave all-singing all-dancing description of our organization.
5/31 Release team: status reports. The bumpy road through Beta.
5/31 DSpace: welcome Mick Bass, and set stage for his understanding.
6/1 Lunch with DanW candidate.
Reduce number of issues I'm working!

• Found a student interested in doing background work on Applix and Star Office
  
• Organizing proposed work for potential new hire.
  
• Asked jweiss for some backup on issues.
  

Redo the fee structure and model for Athena to encourage more sites to adopt it.

• Chatted with marine about cost model that drives Athena Fees.
  
• Chatted with vkurmar and azary about customer motivation and what we want to encourage.
  
• Established action item to get policy makers to get together again and thrash out proper Software License monitoring and enforcement design.
  

Deliver appropriate Software License monitoring and enforcement.

• See previous item
  

SGI AFS problem.

• Reviewed parallel hardware and software solution paths with SGI big whig.
  
• Did back-of-envelope list of milestones for both solution paths.
  
• Checked on status with hardware and software players.
  
• Circulated check-in on Status -- Still no definitive solution.
  
• Authorized work for Athena 8.4 to disable problematic work-around code.
  This means that the systems will run programs, but some will flake out.
  This is better than not running programs.
  
• Pushed Transarc to make this as much a priority as SGI has.
  
• Reviewed the original case with Transarc to show how we already told them what the affected IRIX and AFS versions, how to reproduce the fault, and what the error message was. (LAME!)
  

Fill Position opened by Departure of Dan Winship.

• Chatted with all references for candidate.
  
• Submitted summaries of reference checks.
  
• Made an offer
  
• Did Prep work for post-search report.
  
• Had lunch with Candidate to provide more info on MIT place and our projects.
  

DSpace

• Officially hired David Stuve into HP technical staff "Other Senior Developer" slot.
  
• Officially hired Mick Bass as the HP lead.
  
• Requested IP addresses and Hesiod information for DSpace systems.
  
• Obtained test system
  
• Found bug in Linux Athena X auto-config.
  
• Installed Linux Athena on test system, and recorded hand-tooling required.
  
• Deployed Linux Athena system for Margret Branschofsky's use.
  
• Ordered 5 more systems.
  
• Helped bring XML based project notebook online.
  
• Added many lines of detailed status to notebook.
  

Write statement of my goals for Performance Review phase II.

• Checked in with Roger on if he received my goals. He'll get back to me soon.
  

Mentor Athena User Interface Project.

• Helped Beland get started on project with goals related to usability testing, and looking into identifying proper criteria for judging what customers mean by "Want Microsoft Office on UNIX", and helping with background work on evaluation of Applix, Star Office and other systems.
  
• Invited candidate for DanW position to lead the AUI stuff.
  
• Got Star Office 5.2 beta since it HAS to be better than 5.1.
  
• Got Applix 5.0 Linux from alexp to beland.
  
• Forwarded Beland's analysis of Office Productivity probelm to ganderso: This is excellent preplanning for a discovery effort.
  

Get bonafide contacts other than me for Sun, Transarc

• Chatted with Miki about this. We are leaving it up to Sun to either become easier to deal with so that a Miki rather than a "persistent Bill Cattey" will get good collaboration with them.

26 May 2000

5/22 ninadm lunch: chatted about library and random stuff.
5/22 owls: Went over draft of Athena home page.
5/23 ILEAD: review of how to do promotions.
5/23 Steve Goldman departure caking.
5/24 E40 celebration. Had fun catching up with E40 alums, including Jackie Stewart and Andrea Hauser.
5/25 Interview candidate for position being vacated by Naomi Schmidt, hereafter called Academic Computing Leader postition.
5/26 vkumar: general check-in on DSpace, Licensing, and Interviewing for Acad Leader pos.
<No time to keep milestones up to date. They're logged above in week ending 2 June.>

19 May 2000

5/9 efc, carlj: general light catch-up on status
5/10 W92
5/10 OCMG Microsoft briefing: Microsoft: One system, it doesn't work. :-)
5/10 Bill & Bob: went over goals.
5/11 tjm: many interesting topics in marketing DSpace.
5/11 release team: We're on track for delivering Beta SOON.
5/11 jis: discuss Danw candidate.
5/12 Long Jobs: Demand is there, but bounding the usage is STILL vital.
5/13 DSpace: Discussed logo/poster. Discussed offer of resources from someone in HP.
Write statement of my goals for Performance Review phase II.

• Redrafted goals and put them on milestones web page.
  
• Reviewed them with Bob. Re-arranged them, and added measurements
  
• Sent revised goals to Roger and Bob.
  

SGI AFS problem.

• Spoke to Great Eastern
  
• Worked issue of getting consistent logging of systems in MIT and SGI database with Marion.
  
• Got part number and cost estimate from SGI.
  

Fill Position opened by Departure of Dan Winship.

• Got feedback from reviewers.
  

DSpace

• Ordered desktop machine.
  
• Reviewed logos
  
• Reviewed progress of rooms
  
• Read carefully the draft service document.
  

SGI Application Server Discovery

• Learned in an unrelated meeting that IS is REALLY not wanting to get into App server business.
  

Mentor Athena User Interface Project.

• Reviewed discussion of Window Manager config plans.
  

Chatted with sales rep from eLinux.com and gave him some ideas for improvement of the site, the search, and the stuff stoking the product mix.
Poked at IDT to put the archival information about the Old Rev 1 R5000 chips back on their web site.
Sent team issues to W92 folk. Got info from Team on Parking.

12 May 2000

5/9 ganderso: Reviewed discovery projects.
5/9 Second round of interviews with danw candidate.
5/10 Release Team: Worked issue of Software License. Discussed release slippage. Discussed SGI AFS situation.
5/11 Discovery Team Leaders
5/11 rferrara: cancelled
5/11 impromptu long meeting with David Stuve of HP on DSpace.
5/12 DSpace: Extensive conversations with David Stuve
Redo the fee structure and model for Athena to encourage more sites to adopt it.

• buttonholed Marine in the hallway for a status report. Plan to talk about it at upcoming owls meeting in 2 weeks.
  

Fill Position opened by Departure of Dan Winship.

• Held second round of interviews with candidate.
  
• Checked in with cg team and cctala.
  
• Began sorting out feedback on candidate.
  

SGI AFS problem.

• Asked SGI about 88 hardware upgrades -- we will get pricing and availability next week.
  
• Asked Transarc about IRIX 6.5.7 support -- they will begin work Monday
  
• SGI offered to work with Transarc on 6.5.7 -- Transarc and SGI are now talking to each other directly.
  
• Discovered that 6.5.4 is not a good fallback position.
  

DSpace

• Continued working on Linux Athena HP config.
  
• Got a quote for a system -- will order it next week.
  
• Had extensive meetings with David Stuve. We like him. He likes us.
  
• Helped review service model document.
  

Get Test Cluster moved to E40-302

• Helped anchorpad sort out locations.
  
• Special thanks to janej and ted for help moving stuff.
  
• Hardware got moved, locked down, and most of it is now running.
  

Mentor Athena User Interface Project.

• Chatted with Tibbets about project status and Athena Menu work -- helped provide rationale for drawing the line on build or reuse.
  

Reviewed Discovery projects with Greg.
Deliver appropriate Software License monitoring and enforcement.

• Took Jeff's design to Release team and discovered we could do it but got questions about SHOULD we.
  
• Took the questions to nschmidt and othomas.
  

Write statement of my goals for Performance Review phase II.

• Scheduled time with rferrara to go over the goals.
  
• Found first draft goals -- now I can produce a circulating draft of them!
  

Worked to find out what Applix 5.0 was doing so badly with window placement -- Alas, someone at Applix had already fixed it by the time we isolated the fault.

5 May 2000

5/3 Release team -- Linux went into Alpha. We have a problem with SGI IRIX 6.5.7 and AFS. Working along 3 fronts: Hardware, Transarc, and SGI. Need solution by June 1.
5/4 Long work meeting with Bill Wickes of HP
5/5 Vacation
Get X server from SGI that does not die on DanW's test case.

• Sent kxr@sgi a restart message
  
• wrote X program that should but does not tickle bug.
  

Reduce number of issues I'm working!

• Handed Z30.50 registry work to Carl Jones of MIT libraries.
  

Fill Position opened by Departure of Dan Winship.

• Further salary setting discussions with candidate and directors
  

Mentor Athena User Interface Project.

• Helped in pondering which version of stuff to put in aui locker.
  

DSpace

• Worked up sample configurations for desktop systems.
  
• Made air, and hotel reservations, and registered for DL2000.
  

Get Test Cluster moved to E40-302

• Handed layout to Jane. She'll call in anchorpad.
  

SGI Application Server Discovery

• Took inventories from Naomi and Alex, and turned it into something for SGI Salesman as statement of requirements.

28 April 2000

4/24 Luncheon and follow-up with HP experts in Page Image understanding.
4/24 Owls: Decided how many of what sort of Systems to recommend for this year's renewal.
4/24 Watchmaker Hiring meeting.
4/25 Team Athena: Presentation by me and discussion about DSpace
4/25 ILEAD: Using eValuation tool to create position descriptions. Interesting perspectives from different people on what level we should have for various of the 24 compensible factors.
4/26 IT Partners: I presented on Linux Athena
4/26 Release Team: Status reports.
4/26 Mini Service Team Leaders: ITLT reports from Roger.
4/27 Discovery Team Leaders: Further review of project leader responsibilities. Good discussion on the build vs buy issue, and on helping customers let go of impossible pet requirements.
4/27 Quick chat with Heather Ann about space in E40.
4/28 Pick colors for DSpace space
4/28 DSpace weekly.
Decided to release the Linux Andrew stuff. 4/27/00
Picked carpet for DSpace space. Set meeting to pick the furniture colors.
Write 3 slides describing Linux plans to IT partners -- (turned into 8 slides) Gave the talk.
Draft a position description for Margret
Follow through with Sun on progress made with new patchadd.
Redo the fee structure and model for Athena to encourage more sites to adopt it.

• Told Roger about the plan.
  
• Checked in with Naomi on what should be done.
  

Fill Position opened by Departure of Dan Winship.

• Set some sane salary range boundries with Allison and Roger. Began discussing them with candidate.
  

Get Sun to improve performance of install.

• Got an improved patchadd from Sun. Miki tested it and it's faster.
  
• Fed back to Sun that it was a 10% improvement, thanked them, and asked for 100% improvement.
  

Revise how my plans and progress are displayed for weekly reports.

• Cooked up a new milestones page with a focus on Issues.
  

Get watchmakers hired.

• Made offers. Received 3 acceptances so far.
  

SGI Application Server Discovery

• Requested that people inventory what we do.
  
• Sent progress report to SGI Salesman on where we are in our inventory work.
  
• Received initial inventory
  

21 April 2000

4/17 Holiday
4/18 Meeting with tjm. Talked about managing.
4/18 Interviewed a watchmaker
4/19 Interviewed two watchmakers
4/20 Meet with phys plant to pick out carpet. (Need to meet again. He acted surprised about our June 1 deadline for occupancy.)
4/20 Digital Libraries panel. Had Dinner with panelists afterwards.
4/21 Project Team Leaders meeting: Review new Project Leader Responsibilities. Sent out minutes.
4/22 DSpace weekly meeting. Chatted with potential HP lead.
[MAIN1]Passed a definitive Dell Linux Athena config to Marine for purchase of 6 units.
[MAIN2] Watchmaker Hiring and salary setting.
Let "the little grey cells" ponder the Linux Andrew stuff.

14 April 2000

4/10 DSpace Meeting with CECI: Possible areas of overlap
4/10 Owls: Discussed renewal. Reviewed Athena survey: Users want Word. Maybe we should push hard for Star Office.
4/10 Meeting with jweiss and othomas to discuss student wages.
4/11 Team Athena: developed some proposed metrics
4/11 Interviewed candidate for danw position.
4/11 Meeting to discuss new license control issues.
4/12 rferrara: Delivery stuff and goal setting.
4/13 Scott Erlich farewell luncheon
4/13 Discovery Team Leaders
4/14 DSpace and Spacial Data meeting
4/14 DSpace weekly meeting.
[MAIN] Worked many issues:

• Linux Athena Dell config.
  
• DSpace hiring
  
• Private Athena Software licensing
  
• Filling Danw position

Worked out principles and basic design for enforcement of software licenses for the Roll-out of private Linux Athena. Sent out summary design, and presented it to Athena Release Team.
Took delivery of new Dell Test system -- it seems to work!
Proposed specific Dell configuration to Owls for renewal and put it in a web page:

• 
  

http://web.mit.edu/wdc/www/linuxconfig.html
Worked through issue of DSpace having mixed HP and MIT citizens.
Conducted an interview to fill danw position.
Worked on student developer salary uplift proposal. Met with several stakeholders.
Got a version of Linux Andrew all put together and began testing it.

7 April 2000

4/3 Eric Celeste: looked at furniture for DSpace offices.
4/7 DSpace: discuss more space rennovation.
Sent 2 rejection letters for danw position.
Set up an interview for the danw position.
Worked on way to get HP personnel access to restricted DSpace project docs.
Circulated resume of promising DSpace Web Developer.
Worked through a revised Dell configuration and ordered one to test.
Worked on Linux Andrew.
Filed preliminary performance report for one last team member.
Wrote note to Sun director asking him to help us work more closely with Sun.
DSpace: drafted a web page that points at some possibly interesting commercial products.
Talked about Athena User interface to Nat Friedman of Helixcode. Perhaps Helixcode can be of value.
Reviewed start-up of work on Athena User Interface.

31 March 2000

3/27 Worked from home to try and get well.
3/28 Team meeting: discussed W92
3/28 Lunch with kglavash: discussed scanning and DSpace.
3/29 Release Team: IRIX is nearly ready for alpha. Linux is shifting from 8.3 work to 8.4 work. New Sun install is not as fast as we'd like.
3/29 My performance review
3/30 Discovery team leaders: learned about how "Operational Plan Alive" discovery went.
3/30 Vijay: Discussed Linux and Athena stuff.
3/31 Tim McGovern: Discussed project management stuff.
Did review of hardware maintenance and sent revisons to jvargas
Did last performance review.
Helped in drafting of Private Athena Workstation final recommendations.
Digital Library project with HP announced on 3/28
Had my own performance review.
Heard back from Sun on my Web site concerns. They're gonna do a big facelift in the next half year, and they hope t incorporate many people's concerns then. I closed the service order.
Poked more at Sun for relief of performance problems with patchadd.
[MAIN] Set some tactics for:

• Athena User Interface work.
  
• Linux roll-out.
  
• Archive Server work.
  

Updated Team Athena project page, and my own project page.
Updated Team Athena people page.
Went round and round with Dell trying to configure an up-to-date Linux Athena supported system.

24 March 2000

3/20 Eric Celeste -- Library Stuff
3/21 E40 team leaders meeting. Discussed space.
3/22 out sick
3/24 Met with Pieter van Zee of HP
3/24 Went home sick after HP meeting.
Wrote self evaluation.
Reviewed watchmaker hiring page.
Out sick 1 1/2 days (worked at half speed from home.)
[MAIN] Sent perliminary review numbers to Roger and Bob (for all but one team member).
Did one performance review.
Discussed student hiring with Garry Zacheiss.
Nudged SGI about getting the promised X server patch. (Made an issue of my getting involved even after I said I was stepping aside.)
Asked SGI rep for progress report on his MSI Server proposal. (Got no reply.)

17 March 2000

3/13 Owls: Buy lots of linux Athena
3/14 Team Athena: Discuss IS Strategic Plan
3/14 Private Athena Workstation: We're nearly done!
3/15 Release Team: New figurehead?
3/16 Discovery Team Leaders
3/16 Interview candidate for Danw position
3/17 Project Team Leaders: Reviewed a draft set of Support principles. Looks good!
Reviewed paper by Larry Stone on Desktop Thesis Delivery
Reviewed paper by Keith Glavash on Thesis Submission
Invited someone to interview for Danw position.
Did four performance reviews.
[MAIN] Was frequently mistaken for adult supervision.
Worked Star Office printing bug. Found .xls saving bug.
Got through to Sun about Star Office. Found more bugs in Star Office. Reported my theories on what they might be.
Made a last call for collaborators to Applix -- got a response out of them.
Got an offer from Sun on source relationship. Unacceptable.
Started investigating if Watchmaker salaries are competitive enough.
Graciously accepted Bob Basch's offer to take over my SGI communications tasks. (In news that surprises everyone: SGI finally did provide us a useful technical liaison who was very helpful to quickly remove at least 3 roadblocks to deploying IRIX 6.5.7.)
Assisted with performance review feedback for someone.

10 March 2000

3/6 Archive Server meeting w/efc, hal, and Ted Wilson of HP
3/7 Team Athena meeting cancelled: work on self evaluations.
3/7 ILEAD: review of how salaries are set.
3/8 Release Team: status reports.
3/8 Craft the Archive Server office space.
3/9 Interview candidate for Danw position.
3/10 Archive server luncheon to pick a better name.
[MAIN] Writing, reviewing, and trying to fill Danw's position.
Margret Lippert has agreed to join the Archive Server team and is in process of being approved.
Incorporated feedback on AUIDT report, and handed it to Greg Anderson as completed.
Got my own thoughts in order for the assessment of my team members.
Moved archive server lead user document forward with help from Margret.
Provided performance review input on a couple people.
Reviewed Athena Private Workstation documents.
Reviewed paper Larry Stone and Keith Glavash are writing on the Thesis server.
Poked at Sun about the workflow of their Web-based bug submission system.
Poked at Sun about Star Office.
Asked SGI some questions about Source.
Danw position: read 2 new resumees. Didn't like them much. Brought someone in for interview, tried to bring in someone else too, but they'd already decided not to pursue employment with us. Asked a friend what he was up to in the job market.

3 March 2000

2/28 Owls -- cancelled
2/29Team Athena group meeting
2/29 ACMG Present on Archive Server
3/1 Release Team
3/1 IS Forum
3/2 Discovery Team Leaders
3/2 Eric Celeste
3/3 Student Owned Computer discussion
Write presentation on Archive Server for ACMG
Ponder the AUIDT task of "debug GNOME".
Kicked off team performance reviews.
Proposed filling a position on the Archive Server team with a specific person.
[MAIN] Writing, lots of writing.
Completed redraft of Athena User Interface Discovery Team final report. Asked for reviews from team.
Wrote work breakdown for Archive Server project.
Writing of docs for Archive Server project: skeletal versions of phase 0 deliverables: list of possible lead users, list of possible collaborators, list of sources of ideas and technologies, system architecture.

25 February 2000

2/21 Holiday
2/22 Service Team Leaders mini-meeting.
2/23 Release Team
2/24 Interview of danw candidate
Read the three resumees that came in for the danw position. Decided to interview someone even on thin response.
Arranged semi-formal interview of Danw candidate.
Interviewed Danw candidate.
Conceived amendments for interview guide for the position.
Updated vendor status web pages.
Wrote Private Athena and Windows 2000 sections of Athena Vision page.
[MAIN] Interviewed someone for danw position.
Reviewed issues from Larry on Archive Server.
Chatted with 2 possible staffers for Archive Server.
Tried and failed to explain the Strategic Plan to a team member.
Alerted SGI to some troubling issues, and surprisingly, got excellent progress on them the same day.
Reviewed a Persistant URL preplan.
Reviewed items for publication with regards to Private Athena Workstation.
Reviewed tasks required for Athena User Interface Delivery.

18 February 2000

2/14 Owls: cancelled 2/15 Meeting with tjm to discuss Library Project. Many GREAT insights.
2/15 Private Workstation Discovery meeting: Validated long range action plan.
2/16 Release team: cancelled
2/16 Met with SGI Salesman again. Discussed futures. He's gonna spec out an MSI server for me.
2/16 Met with Sun service engineer. EXCELLENT progress on getting our goals met.
2/17 Discovery Team Leaders
2/17 HP/Library meeting -- set expectations.
2/17 HP/Library dinner -- got acquainted and did SERIOUS brainstorming.
2/18 HP meeting -- agreed on next steps; I've got a bunch of writing to do!
Began revision of Athena User Interface Discovery Report. Asked Thomas and Greg Hudson for help making cost estimates more detailed.
Installed 2 Linux Athena machines.
Began Library Archive Server project notebook. Began drafting work breakdown, and staffing competency models.
Did check-in with Thomas on Linux Athena roll out and other issues.
Wrote up an inventory of the Athena requirements suitable for reference by SGI.
Did the whole yang 24 Tai Chi short form for the first time.
[MAIN] My head did not explode this week.

11 February 2000

2/8 VDIN: I skipped out to save space to attend next OCMG
2/9 Release Team: discuss Linux Athena roll-out and Solaris redo
2/11 Project Team Leaders: sent detailed minutes.
2/11 Met with new SGI Salesman: gave short history from the house of pain.
Did a test-install of Linux Athena myself.
Did last minute liaison to keep Linux Athena deploy on track.
Updated longjobs main page to IS web page style.
Reviewed latest drafts of Digital Archive Server description and suggested amendments that were accepted.
Reviewed latest drafts of Digital Archive server work plan and suggested
interpretations.
Pondered deliverables, work breakdown, and competencies for Digital Archive Server project.
Corresponded with a possible applicant for Danw position.
Linux Athena pilot OFFICIALLY DEPLOYED 2/8/00.
Poked at Sun about CNBoot
Poked at SGI about patch policy issue.
Reviewed design of Operational Plan Alive system.
Sent out email to begin restart of team meetings.
Did check-in with ganderso on Athena User Interface Discovery. I need to work up a revision of the report, but not spend tons of time on it. Sent note to team about next steps.
Inventoried Linux follow-on tasks and projects with Release Team.
Brokered mouse upgrades for Linux systems.
Worked with someone new at SGI on source and support issues.
Planned a visit with new SGI salesman.
Turned reference doc on Athena release sent to SGI into a web page in release locker.

4 February 2000

1/31 Owls: Clarified Private Athena Workstation scope.
2/1 Private Athena Workstation initial meeting
2/2 Release Team -- extended meeting to work through some ideas to improve Sun install, and to put all in order for Linux Athena pilot roll-out.
2/3 Discovery Team Leaders -- got acquainted with Matthew Brody, new senior project manager for IS.
Helped cluster services find PC's for 'zone and test cluster.
Decided YES we should anchor pad new Test Cluster systems, and told Jane.
Did quick check-in on Test cluster move project. (Furniture expected next week. Drops expected within a week or so of that.)
Started briefing Sun SE on Athena hardware/software requirements.
Updated status of vendor projects.
Set timeline and milestones for roll-out of Linux Athena pilot.
Got info on what MIT owes Dan Winship on his departure. (need to decide some things.)
Got reviews of Athena User Interface Discovery report, and worked on mentoring team from those reviews.
Poked at SGI cuz they STILL can't reproduce our GNOME bug.
Helped orchestrate the final preparations for the Linux Athena 10 machine pilot roll-out.
Helped orchestrate inaugural meeting of the Athena Private Workstation Discovery project (called PWS for short).
Helped orchestrate quick adoption in Release Team of some changes to this coming Athena Release based on insights from the PWS meeting.
Helped orchestrate adoption of Larry Stone's simple MP3 player interface as a tool in InfoAgents to help E-reserves and others.
Wrote first draft of Linux Athena section of my Athena Vision paper.
Wrote first draft of Athena User Interface section for Athena Vision paper.
Pushed Sun HARD to deal with our CNBoot enhancement. Had to deal with enthusiastic, but clueless Sun engineer who was too wrapped up on Sun party line to understand our requirements.
Sent email to someone who might be interested in applying to fill the danw position.
Received resume from someone else interested in applying for the danw position.

28 January 2000

1/24 Eric Celeste: Library and Archive status chat.
1/24 Steve Turner meeting
1/25 Allison Dolan: Dan Winship replacement plans.
1/25 ILEAD: Admin Reclassification project delivered. I sent out minutes.
1/26 Linux Athena install demo to Cluster Services
1/27 Meeting with MIT Libraries to discuss Archive Server
1/28 Danw's going away luncheon
1/28 Meeting with Philip Greenspun to discuss Archive Server
Ordered CD Writer for Larry from some place else, and worked through the two vendors's promises of in-stock vs. backorder.
Held Danw luncheon.
Assisted with Linux Athena Install demo, and in setting the stage so that the Pilot deployment could move forward.
Worked on Competency model for Dan replacement with jweiss, adolan, and kmcneice. Reviewed draft of job description.
Reviewed Long Jobs outreach email and service description. Assisted converting it to IS style web page.
Organized the initial meeting of Private Athena Workstation.
Sorted out close-out of Dan Winship's MIT appointment.
Fielded very strange video monitor resolution problem: Turned out to be flaky cable connection.
Isolated GNOME SGI X server bug: reproduced it on many SGI platforms, and remotely logged onto a Sun. Identified some crucial aspects to reproducing the fault.
Everything was MAIN this week.

21 January 2000

1/17 Holiday
1/19 Release Team -- cancelled
Reviewed Long Jobs Customer Description and Questions.
Began planning Danw departure luncheon.
Worked issue of NECX spam.
Ordered a CD Writer for Larry Stone.
Worked issue of apparent failure of xwrapper script. Seems to be a single system. (PHEW)
Pruned some dead SGI cases from my active file. Tripped over more SGI help process failures. Reported several post-mortems.
Asked for help reviewing Athena User Interface Discovery Report.
Set up meeting to review Linux Athena install.
[MAIN] Did second draft of competency model for Danw replacement, set up meeting with CG-team to move it forward.
Finally pushed the CSTR service level doc out the door, linked it into the project notebook, and while I was at it updated the project pages to reflect the new status.
Began drafting a web page to set context for various Athena-related projects going on.
Pondered how to improve how the Service and Delivery team hires and manages student programmers.
Sorted out priorities a bit.

14 January 2000

1/10 Meeting with HP on Library Server
1/10 IS Application Architecture IAP seminar.
1/12 Release Team: Discussed Linux Update.
1/12 Meeting with Jweiss to discuss plans to replace Dan Winship.
1/14 Tai Chi Class
Sorted out tasks required to move test cluster to Visitor Center. Equipment inventoried. Reviewed with jmhunt. janej will get appropriate office equipment and net drops. TODO: decide whether or not to anchor pad the equipment.
Successfully got Alan Kay video ordered!
Moved forward on SGI X Server bug. Have strong assurance that SGI will code a patch for us.
Cleaned out 3" worth of old papers in file cabinet. :-)
Got notified that current apache ssl locker maintained by miki is in compliance with latest and greatest certificate support.
Got notified that baron-ochs's apache binary and config have been updated to comply with Integration team findings.
Got notified that goals for Athena Desktop have been scaled back due to lack of manpower.
[MAIN]Cooked up first draft of job description for danw replacement.

7 January 2000

1/3 Holiday
1/5 Release Team
1/6 Discovery Team Leaders
1/6 Integration meeting: discussion certificate experience with EReserves.
1/7 Tai Chi Class
Ordering Video of Alan Kay's oo98 speech.
Pointed Sun SE at web page describing requirements, proposal, and status of follow-on to Access Plus.
[MAIN]Wrote a bunch of web pages to help describe my vendor relations projects.
Set my committment level for Long Jobs: Mentor, but not on the team.
Set SGI Committment: FOOEY! They don't want to work with us.
Formulated plan for migration of vice-grips to new hardware.
Checked in with Miki and Larry on issues raised with regards to the configuration of the SSL and certificate caching on baron-ochs, the EReserves server.