My Favorite Milestones in 2001

Issues closed:

Week ending:

4 Jan 2002

12/31 Sick
1/1 Holiday
1/2 Release Team -- cancelled
1/3 edolan weekly
1/3 Magellan
1/4 EECS Acct Mgr meeting.
1/4 Linux Desktop

28 Dec 2001

12/24 Holiday
12/25 Holiday
12/26 Vacation

21 Dec 2001

12/17 DSpace Scenario Planning lecture/discussion
12/17 Owls
12/18 DSpace weekly -- validate naming plans
12/18 W92 Holiday Party
12/19 edolan weekly -- Team Development planning
12/19 IS Holiday party
12/20 DSpace talk by Bass
12/20 Discuss EJournal Archive with patsy
12/21 Linux Desktop Discovery
DSpace:

• Discussion threads: Test data cleanup, Scaling our bean strategy, working draft of DC registry/vocabulary, proposed RDBMS cleaneup strategy, Provenance, Cleanups, etc, File upload now working, HTML uploads, Provenance Events, formats supported,Authorization requirements, on usernames, Minimalist proposal for integrity checking
  
• Did significant re-triage of DSpace Code email list backlog.
  
• Attended DSpace Luncheon, Demo, Architecture Review, and Dinner with sponsors from HP. We demoed non-trivial working functionality. YAY!
  
• chatted about DSpace cost model.
  
• Attended net-meeting lecture/discussion of some Rapid Scenario Planning tools and concepts. This stuff may be useful!
  
• Helped with some pre-planning for possible DSpace federation initiatives.
  
• Attended DSpace presentation by Mick Bass to senior library staff. We're cookin!

Lead Athena Team:

• Received new KVM switch and did preliminary testing. Checked in with users on issues. Contacted tech support with show stoppers. Upgraded microcode. Tested. Confirmed acceptable. Ordered parts for full buildout.
  
• Completed buildout of test cluster KVM, miki's kvm, and moved all machines and old Test Cluster clutter out of davidh's office.
  
• Did significant cleanup and flush away of Test Cluster Clutter. TODO: make sure the cleanup job completes.
  
• Did damage control with Zero Cost Linux Athena customer whose update failed and who lost confidence with us. Plan to work out some novel support approach to prevent this sort of thing from happening in future. Need also to create decent monitoring of who-all is installing.
  
• Wrote monthly status report with help from ghudson and amb.
  
• Did planning for outreach and support, then set up meeting with Zero Cost Athena customer.
  
• Chatted with a couple people about Rapid Scenario Planning concepts.
  
• Set up and helped prepare Greg Hudson's presentation to ITAG of the Email Client proposal.

Champion Athena UNIX:

• Surveyed several sister schools on their Linux support. Tabulated results.
  
• Filled out surveys myself for Linux Desktop Discovery
  
• Wrote a paper and delivered it as a talk to Sun Higher Education managers and other interested parties: The Once and Future Athena (with regards to Sun Microsystems.)

14 Dec 2001

12/11 DSpace Weekly
12/11 ILEAD -- Team Leader Development Plan
12/12 Presentation to Sun on Value of Athena
12/12 longpd: What to do about improving service
12/13 Digital Libraries Future lectures.
12/13 DSpace Federation discussion

7 Dec 2001

12/3 Owls
12/3 EJournal Archive
12/6 DSpace Finance chat.
12/7 Linux Desktop
12/7 edolan weekly.

30 Nov 2001

11/26 DSpace Luncheon, Demo, Architecture Presentation
11/26 ejournal archive
11/26 DSpace Dinner
11/27 IS Forum
11/28-11/30 Out Sick

23 Nov 2001

11/19 Owls
11/20 Dspace Weekly
11/20 ILEAD: Support Workplan status report
11/21 Vacation
11/22-23 Holiday
DSpace:

• Triaged dspace-code list after a couple months of not paying enough attention to it.
  
• Facilitated a discussion of issues in managing how different subsystems in DSpace find out about changes to the universe of Site/Community/Collection/Item entities. Helped synthesize a solution that answered latent requirements, satisfied stakeholders in various subsystems within DSpace, and which improved people's working relationships.

Lead Athena Team:

• Both EC3 sessions have been completed for the team.
  
• Built the AnthroCart for the test cluster.
  
• Received new KVM switch and did preliminary testing. Checked in with users on issues. Contacted tech support with show stoppers.

Champion Athena UNIX:

• Had long and interesting chat with Ginny Williams of the Software Release team. Topics: Implications of separately installable packages for the UNIX Athena platform; Scalability, security, and central management as Athena's value proposition; What IS an "Athena port"?

Academic Computing:

• Met with Sun on the Liberty Alliance. Interesting start of conversation in this area. (Also checked in on CNBoot while we were together.)

16 Nov 2001

11/13 DSpace weekly
11/13 Sun Liberty Alliance chat
11/14 Release Team
11/15 Edolan weekly
11/15 DSpace Design review
11/16 Linux Desktop

9 Nov 2001

11/5 All Day Mastering Meetings Course
11/6 Half Day Mastering meetings Course
11/7 Budget Presentation
11/8 Magellan
11/9 Linux Desktop
Lead Athena Team:

• Specify new KVM switch for test cluster from Rose Electronics
  
• Requested test setup to evaluate new KVM switch.
  
• Specified and ordered AnthroCart shelving for Test Cluster hardware.
  
• Specified KVM switch for Miki's crash and burn systems.
  
• Obtained additional Sparc5 crash&burn system for Miki. (Recycle Sunburn)
  
• Drafted spreadsheet of budget with real numbers.
  
• Revised budget proposal narrative to be shorter and more accurate.
  
• Produced Web pages that document team accomplishments and headcount evolution over the past years.
  
• Read zephyr usability review.
  
• Wrote up final draft of budget proposal, validated final proposal spreadsheet and presented to ITLT.
  

Champion Athena UNIX:

• Produced list of people to contact at other institutions with regards to Linux Desktop support.
  
• Produced draft Linux Desktop support questionaire for institutions.
  
• Reviewed MIT Linux Desktop support internal questionaire.

Other

• Attended 1.5 day long Mastering Meetings course. It was fun, but I question whether it was the best use of a day and a half of my time occurring somewhat when I'm usually sleeping. I've had so much meeting experience, and just-in-time learning, that I clearly could have "placed out" of this course.

2 Nov 2001

10/30 DSpace weekly
10/31 Athena Release Team: First EC3 session
10/31 Edolan weekly
11/2 Linux Desktop Discovery

26 Oct 2001

10/22 Owls
10/23 DSpace Weekly
10/24 Release Team
10/24 Edolan Weekly
10/25 IT Partners (I gave a hands-on Seminar)
10/26 Linux Desktop
DSpace:

• Discussion threads: Communities and Collections
  
• Looked at logging requirements. Nothing controversial there.
  
• Started trying to look at Content Management API, but it's not a spec, as such. It's auto-generated javadocs that I'll need guidance to understand.
  
• Looked at the one page summary of the Content Management API. Nothing controversial.
  
• Helped where I could. Stayed out of the way of the coders in crunch mode for the most part.
  
• Logged a bug with RedHat in how 7.1 handles HP monitors driven by Matrox Millenium G200. Spent a couple hours fault isolating.

Lead Athena Team:

• Investigated status of "Package AFS" and "Package Kerberos" projects. We could ship Linux offerings as soon as we wrote documentation on what it was, what it provided, and how it worked. It raises a larger question: Who is responsible for establishing and maintaining individually acquirable installers as SWRT does?
  
• Drafted and sent out September Monthly Status Report.
  
• Sorted through my Vendor web pages. Put them in the access-restricted Attic directory to keep them for historical reference, and as sources of data for other, more affirmative outreach activities.
  
• Produced Email Client mini project pages, and first draft of GUI client candidate evaluation. Converted to HTML ghudson's transition plan.
  
• Officially delegated leadership of the Email Client mini-project to Greg Hudson.
  
• Took on leadership of "Investigate GUI Zephyr issues" for AUI follow-on.
  
• Drafted list of common Zephyr tasks. Discussed pre-planning for usability review with sbjones.
  
• Set up and attended usability review of WinZephyr and two UNIX Zephyr GUI's.
  
• Did testing on KVM for UNIX test cluster systems. A teeny bit flaky, but probably workable. Ordered cables, a USB converter and a Sun converter.
  
• Spent a day on assembling UNIX Test Cluster, and finding the limits of the KVM.
  
• Moved most of the Athena UNIX Test Cluster to a new location with help from Ken Raeburn, David Hogarth, and Miki Lusztig.
  
• Learned a lot about the Belkin KVM. I hate it. It's going to be REPLACED by something from ANYONE else!
  
• Wrote 3 drafts of the Athena UNIX Platform Team budget/team template. Handed it in to tomt for as input to the budgeting process.
  
• Got the EC3 presentations scheduled.

Champion Athena UNIX:

• Looked at HP, Dell, and Linux Care's support levels. Dell is a bit better. HP is the same. Linux Care does not seem to have noticed Red Hat 7.1.
  
• Played with Mozilla at home. I was IMPRESSED. I've asked tbelton to check out the current snapshot.
  
• Opened some bugs with Mozilla. Got acquainted with their bug tracking process. I liked it. Got acquainted with some of the developers by chatting on irc.mozilla.org.
  
• Migrated my home system to RedHat 7.1, and opened bugs with RedHat. Some of this work proved helpful later as I helped out with the dual boot Athena Linux installer, and IT Partners talks.
  
• Helped with APSE by downloading Star Office 6.0 beta from Sun.
  
• Preparation for IT partners demo: Did a test install of Dual Boot Linux Athena in W89 with sgoldman and sharari, and amb. System now boots NT and Linux Athena.
  
• Began investigating issues with some semi-formal Mozilla testing.
  
• Worked with amb and Steve Goldman to debug an improved Athena Linux install that supports Linux Athena as a second bootable system. Spent a day installing Linux Athena on 13 machines in W89 in preparation for an IT Partners hands-on Demo.
  
• Gave hands-on Demo of Dual Boot Linux Athena at IT partners. Talked a lot about the different tradeoffs we made. Made some new friends.
  
• Tried out StarOffice 6.0 and found a bug that prevented me from using it.

Academic Computing:

• Received quote for new Athena Dell config.
  
• Asked Dell rep for clarification on Image Watch program and it's overlap with Athena requirements.
  
• Reviewed resume and salary requirements of someone who might be a good person for IS to hire.
  
• Began investigating issues around unifying UNIX and Windows Zephyr. Helped get some discussion started between appropriate developers in both platform areas.
  

Other:

• Helped set up and then attended first meeting of Linux Desktop Discovery project.

19 Oct 2001

10/15 edolan weekly
10/15 EJournal Archive
10/16 DSpace Weekly
10/16 ILEAD
10/17 Release Team
Report status next week. Oops!

12 Oct 2001

10/8 Holiday
10/9 Dspace weekly
10/10 Linux Desktop follow-up w/ Hallisey. Good chat.
10/11 Magellan -- Punted
Report status next week. Oops.

5 Oct 2001

10/1 E-Journals Archive meeting
10/3 Athena Release Team
10/3 edolan weekly
10/4 Vacation
10/5 Vacation
Report status next week. Oops.

28 Sep 2001

9/24 Lunch with lambert
9/24 Owls
9/25 ILEAD: Input to Review Committee on IS Leadership
9/26 Interview efc replacement candidate
9/26 Release Team: cancelled
9/26 edolan weekly
Report status next week.

21 Sep 2001

9/17 Interview efc replacement candidate -- Cancelled due to illness.
9/17 out sick
9/18 DSpace weekly
9/19 Release Team
9/19 edolan weekly
9/20 Linux Support meeting
9/20 IS Forum with Phil Clay
DSpace:

• Discussion threads: Sanity checking of project planning.

Lead Athena Team:

• Got rid of ancient nss files in ancient dcnshtml web hierarchy. Emailed bmurphy asking what to do about support/support.old.
  
• Drafted a page for the 9.1 proposed feature set and put it into release/www hierarchy. Linked to the release web page from teamhtml/Athena/index.html
  
• rewrote cnboot.html web page, and integrated it into published Athena Unix Platform team projects web pages.
  
• Met with new Sun big-whig. Talked about MIT issues. Emailed him new CNBoot doc.
  
• reorganized Athena Unix Platform team projects page into a Projects and Activities page, with the descriptions spun out to separate pages.

Academic Computing:

• Met with Joanne Hallisey to discuss staffing up a Linux on the (Administrative) Desktop Discovery project.

14 Sep 2001

9/10 Owls
9/11 Interview efc replacement candidate
9/11 Meet with Marc Hamilton from Sun
9/12 Release Team -- Cancelled
9/12 edolan weekly
9/13 Magellan -- punted
9/13 DSpace Weekly -- Reviewed Project milestones for a LONG meeting.
9/14 Delivery Meeting -- Learned about restructuring of Delivery.

7 Sep 2001

9/3 Holiday
9/4 DSpace weekly
9/4/ EJ-Archive
9/5 Release Team
9/5 edolan weekly
9/6 DSpace UI review
DSpace:

• Discussion threads: Reworking the asset store/Requirements for asset store
  
• Did review of several drafts of Workflow Requirements and Design docs. Stated some issues.
  
• Did one more pass on Group Management Requirements doc. Stated some final issues
  
• Helped another DSpace user upgrade to Athena 9.0 he likes it too!
  
• Half day design review on groups/member-groups and schema underlying workflow.
  
• Half day review/discussion on Access control.
  

Lead Athena Team:

• Sent note to discovery-council proposing Win32 on Linux Discovery.
  
• Sent note to discovery-council on Doc Services need for file sharing.
  
• Hired a student into the slot we were going to hire a contractor for.
  
• Got rid of ancient files in ancient dcnshtml web hierarchy. (Todo: see bmurphy on support/support.old and bobmah on nss.)
  
• Selected team EC3 topics and set about scheduling the courses.
  
• Produced draft of monthly report with ghudson and amb.
  
• Reviewed the mini-project plans published in teamhtml/Athena/projects.html. Got feedback: Basically they're on track, but need a few amendments. TODO: Amend doc. Produce and publish Athena 9.1 work plan. Consider creation of a "Mail improvement" mini project plan.
  
• revised my published goals to state my role and deliverables more clearly.
  

Champion Athena UNIX:

• Proposed specifics for an Athena configuration page in table form -- I suggested columns and names and some support levels.

31 Aug 2001

8/27 Owls
8/28 DSpace weekly
8/29 Athena Release Team -- cancelled
8/29 edolan
8/30 Discovery Team Leaders

24 Aug 2001

8/20-24 Vacation
DSpace:

• Discussion threads: Reworking the asset store/Requirements for asset store
  
• Did extensive review and help revise the Requirements for Group Management doc.
  
• Helped DSpace team member upgrade to Athena 9.0.

Lead Athena Team:

• Inventoried team's use of W92 test cluster, and formulated a KVM consolidation plan with pricing and part numbers.
  
• Reactivated work on EC3 stuff: Chose my two areas, and validated them with tomt.
  
• Proposed 2 EC3 areas for Team. (Plan to ratify them at next Release Team meeting held after I return from vacation.)
  
• Fielded a 6.004 lab request for Linux help into a possible conversion into an IS Athena Linux customer.
  
• Helped deal with some confusion about system pickups.
  
• Helped shepherd purchase of SMP test machine.
  
• Did groundwork for setting up monthly reporting for Athena UNIX Platform Team.
  
• Did some rewards and recognition work.
  
• Did some personal and team work strategy discussion with tomt. (To Do: revise goals to state my role and deliverables more clearly.)

Champion Athena UNIX:

• Emailed follow-up to Sun further clarifying CNBoot next steps.
  
• Received some new OpenBoot prom info relevant to CNBoot to comment upon. Circulated it to appropriate others.
  
• Fielded a 6.004 lab request for Linux help into a possible conversion into an IS Athena Linux customer.
  
• Checked in on OpenOffice.org: Looks like they've got something testable. (alexp did some testing with mixed results.)

Academic Computing:

• Bi-weekly status reports.
  
• Got insights into how to take Doc Services need for file sharing and the Win32 on Linux efforts to the Discovery Council (To do: send email about those 2 topics.)
  
• Helped out testing Dell's revised GX150 -- DONE

  
  

Other

• Proposed specifics of Purify purchase for kerbdev and Athena UNIX. Got buyin, and kicked off the order.

17 Aug 2001

8/13 Owls
8/14 DSpace Weekly
8/14 ILEAD w/ Curry
8/14 Libraries Farewell to Ginny Steele
8/15 Release Team
8/15 edolan weekly
8/16 Magellan
8/17 Vacation

10 Aug 2001

8/7 DSpace Weekly
8/8 Athena Release Team -- cancelled
8/8 edolan

3 Aug 2001

7/30 Owls
7/31 DSpace Weekly
8/1 Athena Release Team
8/1 edolan weekly
8/2 Discovery Team Leaders
DSpace:

• Discussion threads: RDF related issues, Learning objectives documents,
  
• Received feedback on my Shiboleth / Safe Dealing analysis.
  

Lead Athena Team:

• Shifted focus from search for temporary help to longer term.

Champion Athena UNIX:

• Emailed follow-up to Sun further clarifying CNBoot next steps.
  
• Reviewed GNOME usability report by Sun, and a note relating our AUI work to it for submission to Sun.
  
• Reviewed another draft of the Star Office blurb.
  

Academic Computing:

• Bi-weekly status reports.
  
• Caught up with Squeak email list. They've done a LOT in the past few months
  
• Helped Electronic Journals folk understand what mirroring is.
  
• Helped aurora and mitchb and tlyu do equipment renewal.
  

Other

• Investigated lower cost remote access. Learned some things about DSL pricing.
  
• Did an inventory of work I could/should be doing. Reviewed last years goals and marked them as complete for the year.
  
• Published draft of my goals for the year: http://web.mit.edu/wdc/www/2002_goals.html
  
• Investigated Purify for kerbdev and Athena UNIX
  

27 Jul 2001

7/23,7/24,7/25 Vacation
7/26 Eric Celeste Farewell
7/26 edolan
report status next week

20 Jul 2001

7/16 Owls
7/17 DSpace weekly
7/17 ILEAD -- jdb presents on Peer Review of IS/FSS
7/17 e-journals Architecture meeting
7/18 Release Team
7/18 Edolan
7/19, 7/20 Vacation
DSpace:

• Reviewed Interim Report for the Mellon Foundation.
  
• Discussion threads:Thoughts on a DSpace ontology, First cut at a DAML ontology, XML schema related issues
  
• Sent my analysis of the relationship between Shiboleth and Safe Dealing to a list of technical folks at sister schools.
  

Lead Athena Team:

• Refined document describingAthena activities, projects, and resources.
  
• Discussed Athena Renewal task ownership with owls. Set better boundries. Gave up ownership of more Sun stuff.
  
• Followed up with contracting company being considered.
  
• Revised teamhtml Athena publicity directory: moved old crap to non-world readable Attic directory, revised projects and people web pages to incorporate the extensive work on the documentation of Athena activities etc.
  
• Got list of goals and accomplishments to rar for President's Report.
  
• Got definitive "no" from contracting company. Time to find a second choice. :-(
  
• Took team home page, people page, and projects page to Release Team for comments.
  
• Described current snapshot of planned organization change to Release Team.
  
• Further cleanup to teamhtml pages. Eliminated mailto entries to cut spam. Gave comment forms an update, and facelift.
  

Champion Athena UNIX:

• Emailed follow-up to Sun engineers on CNBoot next steps.
  
• Had conference call and got explicit owner for CNBoot next steps.
  

Academic Computing:

• Reviewed some 1-1 computing scenarios and financial models. Asked to be more involved in the 1-1 work at a strategic level.
  
• Bi-weekly status reports.

13 Jul 2001

7/9 edolan
7/10 DSpace weekly
7/10 DSpace early adopter discussion
7/10 dania farewell
7/11 Release Team --Described current snapshot of planned organization change
7/11 AUI -- resolved some details of UI. Described how project will end.
7/13 Sun CNBoot conference call
(Whoops! Many Meetings. Push reporting to next week)

6 Jul 2001

7/2 Owls
7/3 DSpace Weekly
7/3 Ejournals
7/4 Holiday
7/5 tjm
7/5 edolan
7/6 rferrara
(Push reporting to next week)

29 Jun 2001

6/25 Owls
6/26 DSpace weekly
6/26 Delivery
6/27 Libraries Rewards and Recognition Luncheon
6/27 IS Rewards and Recognition BBQ
6/27 USENIX
6/28 USENIX
6/29 USENIX
6/29 W92 Team Leaders?
6/30 USENIX (yes, on saturday.)
6/30 DSpace party
DSpace:

• Attended all-day meeting on DSpace, FEDORA, and collaboration issues.
  

Lead Athena Team:

• Discussed current state of team planning and resourcing with longpd
  
• Refined document describingAthena activities, projects, and resources.
  
• Discussed issues of Owls and Athena Renewal task ownership with longpd.
  
• Accounted for all 12 test systems deployment
  
• Given a candidate and work plan from zacheiss and ghudson, worked up proposal for contractor. Circulated to rferrara and adolan. Sent refined version to company being considered.
  

Champion Athena UNIX:

• Emailed follow-up to Sun engineers on CNBoot next steps.
  

Academic Computing:

• Bi-weekly status reports.

22 Jun 2001

6/18 longpd weekly -- YES! We met!
6/19 Discovery half day offsite.
6/19 DSpace prep for offsite.
6/20 DSpace all day offsite
6/20 Release Team -- cancelled due to ghudson illness.
6/21 Magellan
6/21 edolan
6/21 Watchmaker Orientation
(Push reporting to next week.)

15 Jun 2001

6/11 longpd weekly -- cancelled, longpd out of town
6/12 DSpace weekly
6/13 Release Team
6/13 edolan
6/15 rferrara
DSpace:

• Discussion threads: Current Issues, SQL tables and RDF, RDF, OAI, and application within Libraries, revision for workflow document, DSpace storage as enahnced filesystem, File scenarios starter, Handle strategy, GUI to add multiple, demo script
  
• Cleaned myself out of my DSpace cubicle to make room for new hire.
  
• Provided some Athena and Service Host lore to dchud.
  
• Brought in sao to look over DSpace space. Helped review plans for expanding its ability to house people.
  
• Did short email on what the issues are I have with FEDORA
  

Lead Athena Team:

• Attended briefing on new IS Initiative: Enhancing Customer Communication Competencies. My challenge is to help the team comply with this new mandate.
  
• Discussed current state of team planning and resourcing with tomt.
  
• Refined document describingAthena activities, projects, and resources.
  
• Wrote up my review of my part in this year's big buy. Boiled out 6 questions. Discussed with rferrara.
  

Champion Athena UNIX:

• Met with engineers from Sun to discuss Network Booting. More hope on the CNBoot front!
  
• Spent some time poking at GNOME panel to help understand how to make it more reliable for Athena 9.0.
  
• Tried out new method for setting printer in StarOffice. I was IMPRESSED!
  

Academic Computing:

• Other discussion threads:
  
• Bi-weekly status reports.
  
• Supplied feedback on Forever MIT costing and project plans. Attended Forever MIT meeting.
  

8 Jun 2001

6/4 Owls -- canceled, longpd out of town.
6/4 longpd weekly -- canceled, longpd out of town.
6/4 Vacation: Stained windows at home.
6/5 DSpace weekly
6/5 sao help DSpace Space design.
6/6 Release Team
6/6 DSpace Demo
6/6 I/T review kickoff -- Mostly Harmless; might actually be useful.
6/7 Forever MIT
6/7 Magellan -- punted for Forever MIT.
6/7 edolan
6/7 rferrara
6/8 Commencement
6/8 Sun Special Meeting
(push reporting to next week)

1 Jun 2001

5/28 Memorial Day holiday
5/29 DSpace weekly
5/29 jdb -- checked in on my understanding of organization direction, and budget. Mentioned that I'm not good enough at workload management.
5/29 vkumar -- talked about process for resource management
5/30 release team -- reported on my discussions w/ rferrara, jdb, and vkumar.
5/31 edolan weekly
5/31 W92 celebrates recent graduates
6/1 adolan -- follow-up on performance reviews.
DSpace:

• Discussion threads: Whither the demo?, initial thoughts on DSpace leaf-content and schema types, Search+browse page mockups, Upload facilities for DSpace, pages by name or URL?, UI stuff from Corvallis, Usability Team Review of DSpace UI, Documents for DSpace home page, Project documentation, Mini-documentation blitz, RDF from RDBMS, DSpace container architectuer discussion, Object model proposal scribblings, Dojo: Jena + persistence + DAML convenience classes, Some services we could build (and how we'd build them), object composition,
  

Lead Athena Team:

• Produced doc that traces Athena Team evolution since 1996, and which gives mini project plans for work relevant to bridging between Athena and 1-1 computing.
  
• Met with rferrara and discussed Athena resourcing. Felt better.
  
• Met with jdb and discussed workload, Athena model, and many things.
  
• Met with vkumar and discussed resourcing. Got specific messages to pass to Release Team (and did so.) Looking forward to a meeting about Athena and Infrastructure within a month.
  
• Met with adolan to discuss performance reviews, and calibrate level setting in my team.
  

Champion Athena UNIX:

• Got status report from Sun on CNBoot and Source: "Internal Sun processes in motion, expect closure soon."
  
• Took Athena 9.0 beta release on my Sun and Linux box. Reported cosmetic issues. Converted from using my custom login configs (most recently based on AUI locker) to generic AUI-enhanced Athena login configs.
  
• Further review of Star Office Public Relations reply.
  
• Read and sent feedback on Forever MIT project doc.
  
• Sent out 1 month follow-up on IBM AFS situation.
  
• Made decision to cut back my efforts on IBM AFS liaison. Have told IBM they're not responsive enough to our needs. Now I'm going to let it go at that.
  

Academic Computing:

• Bi-weekly status reports.
  

25 May 2001

5/21 longpd weekly -- cancelled. Phil was out of town.
5/21 Owls: set up buy of Dell systems. Cleaned up a few outstanding issues.
5/22 DSpace weekly
5/22 Help interview candidate for Assistant Technology Librarian (efc's position.)
5/23 Release Team -- cancelled
5/23 edolan weekly -- got help framing questions of workload and alignment.
5/24 discovery bi-weekly
5/25 rferrara discussion on resourcing, direction, and organization. Sent email verifying my understandings.
<push reporting to next week>

18 May 2001

5/14 longpd weekly -- cancelled for Mastering Meetings course
5/14 Mastering Meetings Course (all day) -- cancelled for mental health vacation
5/14 Vacation (Broke vacation to make phone calls to Sun to push on Source License)
5/15 DSpace Weekly -- cancelled
5/16 Release Team
5/16 edolan
5/16 Interview DSpace Developer
5/17 Vacation (Broke vacation to have conference call about interviewee)
5/18 Vacation (Broke vacation to catch up on some email.)
DSpace:

• Discussion threads: DSpace / w3c collaboration on the table, Startings of object composition document,
  
• Reviewed and commented on 5/7 draft of DOSO. I still need to supply new prob statement.
  
• Two days of meetings doing Design Obective reviews.
  
• Participated in DSpace interview, and broke vacation to submit input.
  

Lead Athena Team:

• Produced new presentation showing what people are up to, and what minimum resource requirements are for Athena Service. Discussed w/rferrara
  

Champion Athena UNIX:

• Met with Sun rep to discuss CNBoot and how Sun might help us both short term and long term. miki also attended and was very helpful.
  
• Found out IBM AFS for Linux 2.4 kernel is available. Complained to IBM rep about how we would have much preferred to know a week ago during negotiations that it was coming so soon.
  
• Sent email out to various parties asking if they were interested in helping lobby Sun to adopt our CNBoot enhancements.
  
• Did information gathering on other systems that address the same problem as CNBoot.
  
• Submitted all requested info on other systems, and other sites to the Sun CNBoot champion, and suggested we move forward. Heard back that progress is being made.
  
• Broke vacation to blast yet another log jam in our getting our required Sun source.
  
• Broke vacation to comment on Sun Star Office Public Relations issue.
  

Academic Computing:

• Bi-weekly status reports.

Interesting schedule changes:

• Got very stressed, and unreasonably cranky from workload. Took 3 days vacation to try and simmer down. Alas the vacation was not as big a break from work as I would ideally have hoped. But it did help. Will be visiting many in the coming days to move forward on resolving some workload issues.

11 May 2001

5/7 longpd weekly -- dealing with strategic coordination, and with cutting my workload.
5/8 DSpace weekly cancelled (see meetings on 9 and 10)
5/9 DSpace Design Objectives Review
5/9 1-1 with Nick Wainright of HP
5/10 DSpace Design Objectives Review
5/10 edolan
5/11 Academic Computing meeting -- discuss organizational tweaking.
<Push reporting to next week>

4 May 2001

4/30 longpd weekly: 1to1 linux doc prio, Win proposal doc prio? OKI ques.
5/1 DSpace weekly
5/1 ILEAD Diversity workshop
5/1 some fool gathering
5/2 Release Team
5/2 W92 Team Leaders
5/2 edolan weekly
5/2 MORBrian benchmarking chat
5/4 rferrara bi-weekly
5/4 Sun conference call
DSpace:

• Discussion threads: Towards a new DSpace config facility,
  
• Began review on 4/17 draft of DOSO. I like the structure and formatting refinements. Read half and commented; need to supply new prob statement.
  

Lead Athena Team:

• Produced new presentation showing what people are up to, and what minimum resource requirements are for Athena Service. Discussed w/rferrara
  
• Met with Brian McDonald to discuss benchmarking, costing, and other ways of describing with the Athena Service Team does and its value.

Champion Athena UNIX:

• Kicked off order for 6 more Sun test systems.
  
• Kicked off order for 5 Dell test systems.
  
• Counted up how many systems to buy for renewal.
  
• Helped negotiate AFS support relationship with IBM -- reviewed issues with pbh and longpd. Crafted and circulated prep notes for IBM conference call. Had conference call. Proposed plan of action.
  
• Met with Sun rep to discuss CNBoot and how Sun might help us both short term and long term. miki also attended and was very helpful.
  
• Sent email out to various parties asking if they were interested in helping lobby Sun to adopt our CNBoot enhancements.
  
• Did information gathering on other systems that address the same problem as CNBoot.
  

Academic Computing:

• Made minor revision to Linux Laptop CD cost doc.
  
• Other discussion threads: Permission on AFS windows profile
  
• Bi-weekly status reports.
  
• Sent note suggesting outreach WRT certificates.
  
• Pushed on the IBM/AFS collaborative model some more.
  
• Pushed on Owls to decide how many Suns to order, and showed how much we'll save if we buy NOW.
  
• Worked with zacheiss on Athena desktop system/vendor requirements doc. -- read it.
  
• Shepherded early purchase of Sun systems for annual Athena Renewal. Got into special promo from Sun and saved MIT ~$200,000.

27 Apr 2001

4/23 longpd weekly
4/23 Owls
4/24 DSpace weekly
4/25 Release Team
4/25 edolan weekly
4/26 Magellan
4/27 Weekly Sun conference call -- didn't happen
<Push Status report off to next week>

20 Apr 2001

4/16 Patriots Day Holiday
4/17 DSpace Weekly
4/18 Release Team
4/18 edolan weekly
4/19 receive keyboard tray -- tray doesnt fit
4/19 rferrara bi-weekly
4/19 Dentist -- whoops! spaced it writing 1to1 doc
4/20 Weekly Sun conference call postponed
DSpace:

• Discussion threads: Subspace Administration Interviews, The case for LDAP, Digital Research Output, Search Features, Search Engine - MIT's Choice, specific storage mechanisms brainstorm, Content Types, Bill & Margret's review, Comments on your comments, UI Priorities, Web authorities, DSpace / w3c collaboration,
  
• Began review on 4/17 draft of DOSO. I like the structure and formatting refinements.
  
• Reviewed and critiqued 'Shibboleth' inter-institutional authentication and authorization project.
  

Lead Athena Team:

• Emailed Brian McDonald asking for help Benchmarking
  

Champion Athena UNIX

• Reviewed Sun Source license. Sent my issues to MIT and Sun legal.
  
• Emailed some folks asking what we should do about CNBoot.
  
• Reviewed Star Office issues list that came in a month ago.
  
• Replied to IBM with an alternate suggestion on continuing the AFS partnership.
  
• Reviewed rlgarcia's casting of StarOffice issues as a table.
  
• Circulated a treatise on Yak Shaving and its relationship to Dell hardware testing.

Academic Computing:

• Email discussion threads: Bi-weekly status reports
  
• Received request to advise an M-eng thesis. Asked jdb, jis, pbh for guidance.
  
• Keeping track of our testing of one Dell system with an eye to buying more.
  
• Reviewed proposal by IBM for follow-on AFS support. I didn't like it.
  
• Completed a draft Write up of cost estimates for creating a laptop Linux image CD. It's more of a document of issues, tradeoffs, and questions than an actual cost estimate. Circulated it.

13 Apr 2001

4/9 rferrara bi-weekly
4/9 longpd weekly
4/9 Owls
4/10 DSpace weekly
4/11 ITAG Mac OS X
4/11 Release Team -cancelled for itag
4/11 edolan weekly
4/12 Magellan -- punted
4/13 Project Team Leaders -- I took minutes.
4/13 Weekly Sun conference call -- happened informally
(Report next week)

6 Apr 2001

4/2 longpd weekly
4/3 DSpace weekly
4/4 Release Team
4/4 edolan weekly
4/5 DSpace UI review
4/5 Weekly Sun conference call.
DSpace:

• Discussion threads: RDBMS vs. ORDBMS vs., MVC lite, Possible end-to-end scenario for workflow, Schema --> Database mapping, Definitions of concepts from Bristol, Thoughts on the FEDORA model and DSpace, adapters/views - revisiting FEDORA, for the record..., More use cases available... Please review!, Towards a problem statement for digital object composition / digital object services,
  
• Reviewed first draft of DSpace DOSO doc. (Heavy duty! And it's just getting started.)
  
• Worked with margretb in reviewing User Interface draft from the HP designers. We made many suggestions.
  

Lead Athena Team:

• Submitted preliminary performance assessments.
  
• Completed performance review paper work on rbasch, ghudson, lcs, tbelton, amb, miki
  
• Had my performance review.
  
• emailed ariels to see if she wants to come back as a watchmaker.
  

Champion Athena UNIX

• none :-(

Academic Computing:

• Email discussion threads: ITLT Minutes
  
• Helped sort out address issue that delayed receipt of replacement disk drives on Memory-Ultra
  
• Submitted feedback on Eudora: Set MIME as default. Don't adopt 'Pure Voice'.
  
• Found out source of delay in Sun test systems: Order got mis-directed. We re-sent it, and suggested changes to make where to send it more obvious in future.
  
• Keeping track of our testing of one Dell system with an eye to buying more.
  
• Read 1-1 I-Campus proposals and pondered their issues.
  
• Took delivery of Sun test systems. Slapped Sun about how they were BADLY mis-addressed for shipment. Praised Sun for getting video card to us so soon. Kicked off their deployment.
  
• Made extensive progress in writing up the issues with creating a Linux CD install image for Laptops.

30 Mar 2001

3/26 my performance review
3/26 Owls
3/27 DSpace weekly
3/27 VDI -- punted for DSpace work.
3/28 Release Team -- punted
3/28 edolan
3/29 Magellan -- punted for AUI
3/29 AUI -- help review look and feel, and Nautilus issues
3/30 1 to 1 meeting -- asked many questions
(push status report to next week)

23 Mar 2001

3/20 DSpace Weekly -- learn about Bristol trip.
3/20 ILEAD Learn about IS New Employee Orientation work
3/21 Release Team -- Talked about budget and possible cancelling of open position.
3/22 edolan weekly
3/22 rar -- Change management issues, preliminary performance assments.
3/23 W92 Team Leaders -- plans for who might move in/out of W92 in 3 month and 6 month timreframes. (Nobody on my team)
DSpace:

• Discussion threads: OpenURLs, Re: skeletal website, The O/R problem restated, David Karger and Dspace, DSpace time-out interval
  
• Wrote up summary of discussion between efc, vkumar, and wdc and circulated.
  

Lead Athena Team:

• Did rbasch, ghudson, lcs, performance reviews.
  
• Did prep work for miki, tbelton performance reviews
  
• Worked to cope with fallout from open position going on hold.
  
• Wrote self-evaluation
  

Champion Athena UNIX

• Re-sent Solaris license to Sun after they took a month to realize they couldn't find the copy I faxed them in February.
  
• Complained to Sun that they didn't keep their "in 8 days" promise about Sun Blade shipments.
  

Academic Computing:

• Email discussion threads: [Nautilus-list] Results of MIT usability testing

16 Mar 2001

3/12 Owls -- cancelled
3/13 efc, vkumar luncheon
3/13 ILEAD budget
3/14 Release Team -- cancelled
3/15 Discovery Team Leaders
3/16 Athena_PR w/jkramer
(Push report to next week.)

9 Mar 2001

3/6 DSpace Weekly -- cancelled
3/6 ILEAD -- moved to next week.
3/7 Release Team
3/7 edolan
3/8 Dell -- conflict
3/9 Sun conference call. -- moved
3/9 Out sick.
DSpace:

• Discussion threads:Comments on Dave's notes from the Stonebreaker meeting, DSpace as an ASP?, Login/Logout button, Subspaces and Collections,
  
• Submitted some feedback on Little-D.
  
• Assisted Mick with DHCP problems.
  
• Meetings with Mick and Eric about making sure I will properly communicate our rationale for my role in DSpace.
  

Lead Athena Team:

• Reviewed Long Jobs Security white paper for rbasch and suggested a few edits.
  
• Sorted out accounting issue with a wireless hub purchase.
  

Champion Athena UNIX

• Reviewed AUI project usability testing writeups. Suggested some edits.
  
• Helped review AUI icons and aesthetics. Need to help amb sort out ownership of the aesthetics.
  
• Chatted with bobmah about how Athena could be more useful to Network Security Team. We're gonna try and learn more about what customers want, and try and move in the direction of being more useful.
  

Academic Computing:

• Email discussion threads: Results of MIT usability testing, AUI icons, AUI Menus, StarOffice problems list, bi-weekly status reports,
  
• Provide input on evaluation of Star Office issues.
  
• Work with Athena team to consider changes in direction of Athena UNIX offerings to be more relevant to the new Academic Computing direction.
  
• Worked in Service TL meeting on refining metrics, and working the issue of finding metrics of real value to: Informing various stakeholders, for example ITLT, and helping improve the quality of team work, and in improving the relevance of the work to the customers.
  
• Worked on resolving issue of acquiring test systems for Athena hardware renewal, and Athena 9.0 software integration. Received partial system from Dell. Proposed plan for validating Dell system, and possibly ordering more of that config.
  
• Provided opinion on why HP Linux is not ready for application in the Athena renewal.
  
• Received info from Gateway: They can't meet our requirements this time around, but maybe next time.
  
• Got quote for test systems from Sun; Order send out: 3/7 PO# 4500304425.
  
• Revised my vendor liaison and Sun project pages to reflect my diminished role.
  
• Wrote up a 360 degree feedback on the Academic Computing Offsite and circulated it to release team, itlt, and academic computing folk.
  

2 Mar 2001

2/26 Owls
2/27 DSpace Weekly -- cancelled
2/27 Space meeting -- misfiled agenda and missed it. :-(
2/28 Release Team
2/28 Service TL -- Talked about metrics and setting useful ones.
3/1 Discovery TL
3/1 Vendor meeting with Dell
3/1 edolan
3/2 Sun conference Call
3/2 tregan check-in on space.
push reporting to next week

23 Feb 2001

2/19 Holiday
2/20 DSpace Weekly
2/20 ILEAD
2/21 Talk to VM group about Linux
2/21 Release Team
2/22 edolan
2/22 DSpace w/Stonebreaker
DSpace:

• Discussion threads: Licensing, converging DSpace rights management, newest DSpace model, Asset store IDs,
  
• Tried out Little-D: gotta write up some feedback
  
• Chopped JDLC and JAAS work from queue.
  
• Had database discussion meeting with Michael Stonebreaker

Lead Athena Team:

• Checked 4 candidate references, and wrote them up.
  
• supplied PR input for aurora and sbjones to Jeanne Cavanaugh
  
• Had 1 on 1 meetings with all team members as follow-up from Academic Computing Offsite.
  
• Brought news of space plan, rewards and recognition, and of Academic Computing offsite to team at Release Team meeting.
  
• Paid courtesy call to Robyn Fizz to let her know about Athena PR web page work, and to make sure she was ok with us getting illustrations from PSB.
  
• Reviewed budget numbers for personnel.
  
• Handed further job search administrative stuff to emccall.
  
• Met with PSB rep to discuss Athena-PR illustrations. It's tough to keep focused on a low cost effort that does not morph into a work of art that is too expensive.

Champion Athena UNIX

• Asked OpenOffice.org for help in finding what's removed in OpenOffice.
  
• Sun came to visit with a toy to play with.
  
• Met with Sun to discuss source code.
  
• Pondered how to make Athena Web Browser better at Release Team and in hallway chat.
  
• Conceived talk on Linux for VM folks.
  
• Luncheon meeting with Sun salesman and service engineer. Talked about the future.

Academic Computing:

• Fielded issue of sshd for print servers, print server 8.4 release status, and communication of such issue statuses.
  
• Pondered value of Application Servers implemented as virtual Linux machines on a mainframe. Gave talk to VM folks.
  
• Poked at Dell over continued lack of our Try and Buy system.

16 Feb 2001

2/13 DSpace Weekly
2/13ACMG (missed most of due to health)
2/14Release Team (Guest from Sun)
2/14 Meeting with Sun on Source Code
2/15 Discovery Team Leaders: AUI review
2/15 Edolan
2/16 Project Team Leaders
<Push reporting to next week.>

9 Feb 2001

2/5 Owls
2/6 DSpace Weekly
2/6 ILEAD
2/7 Academic Computing Off Site
2/8 edolan
DSpace:

• Got new Vectra VL400 installed with Linux Athena using SIPB install. Reported lots of bad behavior to HP and Release Team.
  
• Discussion threads: Retrieval Engines, More fun with filenames, First Pass at UI, More feedback on page, Page Layout Thoughts, Lists promised in UI Phone, Top level controls, Navigation bars, domain-specific schema, Open Archives Initi, metadata extensibility,
  
• Had epiphany about how to do extensible metadata.
  
• Wrote up extensible metadata epiphany and circulated it.
  

Lead Athena Team:

• Filed amb 6 month review.
  
• Discussed Athena Team culture with edolan. Got some good insights. Now pondering what to do about them.
  
• Asked candidate for References, and some supplementary info.
  
• Began having 1 on 1 meetings as follow-up from Academic Computing Offsite.
  

Champion Athena UNIX

• Cooked up more detailed review of what must change before I stop advocating against HP PC's for Linux Athena.
  
• Got insight about Netscape reliability: Deadlocks in the JVM seem to turn into a hung UI. Now need to decide if this insight can be useful.
  
• Asked Sun for ANY Solaris 8 source snapshot.
  
• Weekly conference call on our issues.
  
• Asked OpenOffice.org for help in finding what's removed in OpenOffice.
  

Academic Computing:

• Fielded issue of testing new Ultra-5 config with 20GB disk in place of 9GB disk. (I wish I'd remembered that I'd raised this issue in November so I could follow-up before it became a crisis.)
  
• Initiated review of what hardware we need for proper development testing.
  
• Pondered value of Application Servers implemented as virtual Linux machines on a mainframe.
  
• Email discussion threads: fix-soffice script, Project Status reports,

2 Feb 2001

1/29AUI review at ITAG
1/30 DSpace weekly
1/31 Release Team
2/1 Discovery Team Leaders
2/1 DSpace @ Tufts
Push off status report till next week.

26 Jan 2001

1/22 out sick
1/23 DSpace weekly -- missed due to illness
1/24 edolan
1/24 Release Team -- cancelled
1/25 tjm: talked about goal setting as a prerequisite to accountability.
1/26 Interview Candidate
DSpace:

• discussion threads: Searching/Browsing, flavors of WebPages
  
• Meeting with Harvard Librarary Digitial Initiative folk.
  
• Closed loop with Ruth Davies with regards to: Property tagging policies, janej purchase authority, issue of payment for W91 rack space.
  

Lead Athena Team:

• Reviewed 2 new resumes in depth and considered their relationship to candidate being interviewed.
  
• Wrote first draft of AMB 6 month review
  
• Got a goal to rclarke for the Quarterly Report.
  
• Received quote from PSB for Athena-PR illustrations. Went to rar for authorization. (Had to bring rar up to speed on where the mini-project has been since Nov.)
  
• Investigate hardware replacement for Miki.
  
• Did second round of interviews with candidate.
  

Champion Athena UNIX:

• Spoke with Dell Sales rep about try and buy system. Thought about how Athena can be more responsive to the reality of fast-changing hardware base.
  
• Sorted out some AUI icon issues. (Memo to myself: Catch up on the email threads before calling a meeting.)
  
• Scheduled conference call with Sun to try and move our issues forward.
  

Academic Computing:

• Reviewed paper "The Fall of Babbage's Ideology"
  
• Nudged Dell about Try and Buy status.

19 Jan 2001

1/15 Holiday
1/16 DSpace Weekly: special long meeting on Rights management
1/17 Release Team
1/17 edolan -- Cancelled
1/18 Discovery Team Leaders -- Cancelled
1/18 LDI @ Harvard
1/18 Left early due to illness
1/19 Project Team Leaders -- Missed due to illness
1/19 out sick
Do accomplishments next week.

12 Jan 2001

1/8 Owls
1/9 DSpace weekly
1/10 Release Team
1/10 edolan
1/11 DSpace Data Warehouse discussion
DSpace:

• DSpace discussion threads: bug tracking, search/browse,
  component base interfaces
  
• Investigated property tagging issue

Lead Athena Team:

• Produced revision notes, more biographical info, brainstorm for illustrations, and part of filler for missing history section ofAthena-PR
  
• Made contact with Monica Lee of PSB, and set basis for what wewant from therm for Athen-PR.
  
• Looked at two new resumes that came in.

Champion Athena UNIX:

• Drafted Opportunity Evaluations for the 4 projects that seem like next steps for the Athena Team, circulated the draft, and received feedback.
  
• Conceived a different approach to the APSE work with Star Office. Published the approach to the APSE list and requested comments.
  
• Familiarized myself with OpenOffice project, and the current state of Printing.
  
• Kicked off cleanup of Star Office issues.
  
• Raised 3 issues with Sun: Solaris 8 source, CNBoot, Netscape bug tracking.
  
• Discussed Windows on Linux effort with zacheiss.

Academic Computing:

• Helped out with customer getting problems with SIPB installer that might be relevant to recommended Linux Athena Hardware configuration.
  
• Did some damage control from my having gotten TOO negative about Star Office collaboration with Sun.

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.