[1013] in I/T Delivery
Delivery Council NOTES 1/21
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Ferrara)
Wed Jan 22 14:02:13 2003
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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:01:06 -0500
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From: Robert Ferrara <rferrara@MIT.EDU>
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Attending: rferrara, tomt, wdc, ljr, jag, thg, mjv, mca
Away: msnow, thorne
Updates - (about 10 min )
- need to move All-Delivery meeting date to 2/25 (was 2/18 before)
- monthly newsletter: target date 2/10
- budget update - wdc, thg, jag went to Allison's ILead session
- still over FY2003 budget in certain areas; Ken is working on it
- Departmental Application Development Contracts - Discovery Council will review
Roundtable (about 20 min )
- Athena release with disconnected operations was rolled out today
- Playing with beta release of new X-server
- New Mozilla 1.2.1 coming; on track for first day of class of Spring term - Feb 4
(Jag will check if a new Mozilla user agent shows up for beans - version 1.2.1)
- Athena team also refocused on Athena services document
- Information Office asked EAST to look at sync'ing events with MIT Cable; idea to create automated feed to download into MIT Cable events; looking at outputting into QuickTime.
- no heat in N42 this morning
- AAUDE work for this year coming in
- Card Office now has all the employee pictures in the warehouse; developing java tool to see pictures
Quarterly Report (about 15 min)
- review draft and give feedback; people will have one more opportunity for feedback
- determine major accomplishments and key goals for next quarter
- discuss: how can we simplify assembly? (and avoid duplication of effort in preparation for Delivery Review with Jim Bruce)
- mailman mention in goals for next quarter
- new version of corporation db
Plan for 2/12 Delivery Review with Jim Bruce (about 15 min)
Desired outcomes:
- review last time: what worked? oral presentations were good
- clarify format / expectations
- determine schedule and who's presenting: same as last time, maybe cut times in half since it's an update
- plan for preparation/ drafts of materials
- see where we are on action items from October review (see below)
- Mary will be out of town; Scott may not be in town for this date - Mary will check
- Try one-pager approach; want the 4 specific questions
[As of December ******
ACTION ITEMS from October Delivery Strategic Review
OPEN: revisit Windows programmer position in Jan -- needs $ (Tom T.)
OPEN: one-pager on Unix Athena cost savings (WDC)
OPEN: one-pager: historical changes in Athena costs (WDC)
OPEN: document "cost shifts" created by new, improved services (MCA)
ONGOING: investigate use of Athena servers to speed up server set-up (WDC)
OPEN: future DC meeting agenda: formal exposure to OKI
OPEN: study OKI common service defn's vs. Athena services (WDC)
OPEN: restate invitation to Directors to deploy WinAthena (Desktops only) (Tom T.)
NOTE - REMOVED THE "DONE" ITEMS
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Next meeting - 2/3 in N42-286
- review of 2/12 plans
- Windows progress - maybe more from Tom
- plan All-Delivery meeting - 2/25
- Cross-platform development: where are we and where are we going?
- February 17 meeting moves to 2:15 on February 18 in W92
