[492] in I/T Delivery
Monthly Report - Spatial Data
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Fitzgerald)
Fri May 25 14:11:56 2001
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>General
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>Continue to deliver training, consulting and faculty outreach. Dan
>Sheehan participated in the hiring process for the GIS Specialist in
>the Libraries. Significant work on the project plan, resource
>allocations and first pass budget.
>
>Accomplishments during April and May
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>- Published Discovery closure report.
>- Drafted Delivery, Phase 1 announcement.
>- Continue work on definition and scope of Phase I Delivery Team.
>- Interviews conducted for GIS Specialist position in Libraries, two
>candidates
> identified and finalist accepted. Proposed start date is July 18, 2001.
>- Bill Fitzgerald contacted the new Libraries AO, and offered to
>work with him on
> potential space/renovations work for the GIS Center.
>- Strong likelihood that Tom Grayson of DUSP will be an additional technical
> resource; refined a workplan and list of deliverables for him.
>- Tom Grayson configured and tested Apache web server on SUN Ultra 5.
>- Tom Grayson loaded Oracle 8.1.7 on Arrowsmith.
>- Tom Grayson tested ArcIMS on Athena.
>- Dan Sheehan met with Athena Ops and some members of proposed
>delivery team to discuss server machine and Oracle maintenance.
>- With Director of CEE Course 1/M.Eng program, planned Fall 2001 course.
>- Drafted workplan for pilot SDS delivery to 11.188/11.520 in Fall 2001.
>- Added Esther Yanow to delivery team; she started on-line project notebook.
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>Goals for June
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>- Finalize Tom Grayson's involvement on project, meeting with
>Professor Ferreira is
> being scheduled for early June.
>- Work toward completing delivery Phase 1 team and announcement.
>- Publish Phase 1 announcement.
>- Tom Grayson and Miki Lutszig to load and test Apache on the
>production machine.
>- Tom Grayson and Miki Lutszig to load and test map server software
>on the production machine.
>- Start network testing.
>- Finalize project notebook, begin loading information.
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>Issues
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>- Long lead time for Libraries hire slows collaboration, questions
>of location in Rotch Library, equipment needs, possible renovation
>remain unanswered until new hire on board.
>- Delay in RAID Array delivery has slowed data loading and network testing.
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Bill Fitzgerald
Senior Project Manager
Information Systems
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Building 10 Room 256
Cambridge, MA 02139
(P) 617-253-3171
(F) 617-253-0750
Email: wjfitz@mit.edu
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