[503] in Athena User Interface
Fwd: AUI - Project - going forward
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Dec 13 23:36:11 2000
Message-ID: <QuC4ss5z0001FaDFYK@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:36:08 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: aui@MIT.EDU
I should have forwarded this to the team on Sunday when I received it.
We are GO for AUI!
Andrew, Greg Anderson, Bob Ferrara and I are meeting Friday morning to
sort out the dedails of AUI as an officially activated Delivery project!
The official announcement to the wider community outside the team will
happen after the Friday meeting. But it was a mistake for me not to
share this news with the team right away. I apologize.
Top everyone on the team: WELL DONE!
-wdc
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:01:26 -0500
From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
To: wdc@mit.edu, vkumar@mit.edu, longpd@mit.edu, ganderso@mit.edu,
rferrara@mit.edu, amb@mit.edu
Subject: AUI - Project - going forward
Bill,
On Friday afternoon, Vijay, Phil and I spoke briefly to confirm our
joint support and commitment for the AUI project for Athena release 8.5
as you have outlined it in your web pages:
Project notebook: http://web.mit.edu/aui/notebook including the
Discovery report March 2000: http://web.mit.edu/aui/notebook/report.html
and, specifically, the plan of action described in the Mini-project plan
for 8.5: http://web.mit.edu/aui/notebook/athena-8.5.html
Thanks for the conversations, clarifications and context setting - I
feel at this point that the communications have been completed to get
all of us on the same page.
At this point, perhaps we need to follow-up with some specific project
conversations among you, myself, Bob, and Andrew. I think we need to
understand that the work is now in delivery and to insure that we have
the right reporting and project structure.
Finally, Bill, I just want to clarify and reinforce that we still need
the larger discussion on the Athena and Academic Computing vision.
Moving forward as a near term deliverable for the user interface is a
good step with enduring value. We still, need, however, to engage an
in-depth discussion regarding the role and context for Athena in the
changing academic computing arena - this means understanding the various
initiatives: Athena, Pismere, 1:1 student computing, etc. and how they
fit together and energize each other.
So, I hope this messages clears the air for AUI; we are expecting an
energetic, visible project that will deliver value to the Athena user
experience as 8.5 is released in July.
My thanks to everyone for these conversations; they have provided
greater clarity, understanding, and agreement in moving work forward.
Greg
