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EAST Monthly Status Report for April 2003
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Fri May 9 15:40:18 2003
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EAST Monthly Status Report for April 2003
Team Name: Enterprise Application Software Team (EAST)
Team Leader: Thomas H. Grayson
Team Members: Todd Belton, Jennifer Lu, Lisa Robinson
Report Date: May 9, 2003
Submitted By: Thomas H. Grayson
Contributors: Thomas H. Grayson, Todd Belton, Jennifer Lu
URL: http://web.mit.edu/east/www/reports/2003-04.html
Accomplishments for April 2003
Events Calendar
* *Community Milestone: *Completed the initial release of the Events
Calendar for use by outside not-for-profit educational
institutions and MIT internal users. Announced the availability of
the code to MIT users who had previously expressed interest.
* Todd and Tom did documentation and preparation work for Events
Calendar rollout. This included:
o Finishing documentation files
o Finishing Oracle SQL scripts to create and populate the
initial database schema
o Preparing a tarball of the code and related files
o Creating secure web locations for distibuting the software
that support either MIT certificates or usernames with
passwords.
* Todd worked on statistics digesting and handling for Events Calendar.
* Todd handled the usual assortment of Events Calendar help and
customer issues, including a rather major mess involving ownership
of some events by the MIT Community Players.
* Todd and Tom researched and diagnosed a problem with importing
events with start dates containing two-digit years into the Calendar.
Physical Education Lottery
* Jennifer (with Sabari Nair) installed the PE lottery application
to a new Windows XP machine in the Department of Athletics,
Physical Education, and Recreation and moved the original PE
lottery database from an old machine to the new machine.
Coeus (Jennifer)
* Fixed technical reporting bug in delta report.
* Fixed problem while submitting a proposal for approval.
General
* Todd moved to N42 from W92, improving his productivity and working
conditions tremendously.
* Todd did some research work for Rolesweb expansion project.
* Todd attended the initial meeting for Discussion List Discovery
project, plus did some research into existing message-board and
discussion-list software as charged, with more to come.
* Tom joined the Knowledge Base Discovery project.
* Tom met with Ginny Williams to discuss writing a service level
agreement for EAST.
Goals for the Coming Period
* More work on the Events Calendar.
* Progress on the Parking Web project.
* Application documentation.
Next Community Milestones
* The next packaged release of the Events Calendar application.
Learnings
* Sometimes it's not easy to give something away.
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<h3>EAST Monthly Status Report for April 2003</h3>
Team Name: Enterprise Application Software Team (EAST)<br>
Team Leader: Thomas H. Grayson<br>
Team Members: Todd Belton, Jennifer Lu, Lisa Robinson<br>
<br>
Report Date: May 9, 2003<br>
Submitted By: Thomas H. Grayson<br>
Contributors: Thomas H. Grayson, Todd Belton, Jennifer Lu<br>
URL: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/east/www/reports/2003-04.html">http://web.mit.edu/east/www/reports/2003-04.html</a><br>
<h3>Accomplishments for April 2003</h3>
<h4>Events Calendar</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Community Milestone: </strong>Completed the initial
release of the Events Calendar for use by outside not-for-profit
educational institutions and MIT internal users. Announced the
availability of the code to MIT users who had previously expressed
interest.</li>
<li>Todd and Tom did documentation and preparation work for Events
Calendar rollout. This included:
<ul>
<li>Finishing documentation files</li>
<li>Finishing Oracle SQL scripts to create and populate the
initial database schema</li>
<li>Preparing a tarball of the code and related files</li>
<li>Creating secure web locations for distibuting the software
that support either MIT certificates or usernames with
passwords.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Todd worked on statistics digesting and handling for Events
Calendar.</li>
<li> Todd handled the usual assortment of Events Calendar help and
customer issues, including a rather major mess involving ownership
of some events by the MIT Community Players.</li>
<li>Todd and Tom researched and diagnosed a problem with importing
events with start dates containing two-digit years into the
Calendar.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Physical Education Lottery</h4>
<ul>
<li>Jennifer (with Sabari Nair) installed the PE lottery application
to a new Windows XP machine in the Department of Athletics,
Physical Education, and Recreation and moved the original PE
lottery database from an old machine to the new machine.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Coeus (Jennifer)</h4>
<ul>
<li> Fixed technical reporting bug in delta report.</li>
<li>Fixed problem while submitting a proposal for approval.</li>
</ul>
<h4>General</h4>
<ul>
<li>Todd moved to N42 from W92, improving his productivity and
working conditions tremendously.</li>
<li>Todd did some research work for Rolesweb expansion project.</li>
<li>Todd attended the initial meeting for Discussion List Discovery
project, plus did some research into existing message-board and
discussion-list software as charged, with more to come.</li>
<li>Tom joined the Knowledge Base Discovery project.</li>
<li>Tom met with Ginny Williams to discuss writing a service level
agreement for EAST.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Goals for the Coming Period</h3>
<ul>
<li>More work on the Events Calendar.</li>
<li>Progress on the Parking Web project.</li>
<li>Application documentation.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Next Community Milestones</h3>
<ul>
<li>The next packaged release of the Events Calendar application.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Learnings</h3>
<ul>
<li>Sometimes it's not easy to give something away.<br>
</li>
</ul>
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