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Events Calendar Discovery Project Report, 7/15/99
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deborah A. Levinson)
Thu Jul 15 10:21:23 1999
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:20:56 -0400
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From: "Deborah A. Levinson" <debby@MIT.EDU>
Cc: events-team@mit.edu
Project Name: Events Calendar
Project Leader: Debby Levinson
Report Date: 7/15/99
Project Notebook: http://web.mit.edu/cwis/projects/eventscalendar/
Accomplishments past period
- Began planning focus group with InfoGroup members and UA/GSC/ASA leaders;
focus group to be held 7/20/99 on topic of posting policies
- Contacted University of Virginia, got good information from them about
their events system (which is not currently for sale)
- Discussed technical issues to go over with Amplitude (e.g., security,
email, etc.)
- Discussed EventsCenter further with Glen Johnston. Sloan may very well
purchase this product.
Goals for the coming period
- Conduct focus group, narrow down posting policy recommendations.
- Contact Amplitude Systems for further product information.
- Contact Doug Heimburger and Boris Zbarsky for further TechCalendar
information.
- Schedule time with Scott Thorne to do data modeling.
Issues
- Amplitude Systems was recently purchased by Critical Path, Inc., which
plans to "incorporate Amplitude's leading-edge calendaring and resource
scheduling suite with its proprietary email outsourcing solution to offer
enterprises, Internet portals and Internet service providers (ISPs) an
integrated messaging platform." The team is concerned that using
EventsCenter will now require using its integrated email, which would
probably be unacceptable.
- Questions remain about whether and how to implement an email reminder
system within the events calendar.
Key learnings
- Never, never, never state in a status report "We're on target to finish
on time." (See next item.)
- Ask your new team members for their vacation schedules *before* assuming
they will be able to make certain meetings.
Team dynamics
- Pretty good - even though we've slowed down a bit, the goal is still well
in sight.
Additional comments
- Doug & Boris continue work on a revised TechCalendar interface. It's
looking really good!
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Debby Levinson
Electronic Publishing Consultant
MIT Campus Wide Information Systems
debby@mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/debby/www/
Humanity has an amazing inability to plan. Not too many
generations ago, when our relatives lived by hunting and
gathering, the inability to plan for the next season meant
death. Planners survived. The clueless died. But today,
Homo Sapiens eats at McDonalds - for the moment, planning
and survival are not strongly linked. --David Isenberg
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