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Re: Start of forms conversion process
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F Lambert)
Mon Aug 7 08:20:08 2000
Message-Id: <200008071220.IAA14415@fort-point-station.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 00 08:17:51 EDT
From: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>, Rachel Sage <SAGE@MIT.EDU>,
Arthur L Anger <ANGER@MIT.EDU>,
William F Furtado Jr <FURT@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
cc: Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:17:42 -0400
My thanks to Rachel & Lynne for keeping us on track with the 3827->3160
conversion plans. Please feel free to solicit Bill's help as appropriate.
Much appreciated!
-Dave
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:17:42 -0400 you said:
>Greetings,
>
>I think the end of August is a reasonable time frame to identify the forms
>still in use. I have already massaged the files you provided into excel
>spreadsheets. I will step up and take the point on this part of the project.
>As an aside we have already downloaded all the forms and related pieces to
>elixir and will get them ready to worked on by the end of the month as well.
>
>Lynne
>
>At 04:10 PM 8/2/00 -0400, Rachel Sage wrote:
>>The first step in the 3820 -> 3160 forms conversion process is to
>>identify which forms we are currently using. This will help us not
>>waste a lot of time converting unused forms.
>>
>>I have been collecting stats on form usage since 1993 and I have
>>massaged them enough so that we can start figuring this out.
>>
>>I was hoping that Lynne, Art and Bill Furtado would start looking
>>at these lists and do what ever needs to be done to put together the
>>list of forms that are currently needed. I suspect that someone will
>>need to make a bunch of phone calls to determine if some forms are
>>being used.
>>
>>There are two stats files. The first is a list of how many times
>>a form was used in a given year. The second is the list of users
>>who used the forms in a given year. Obviously, the second list
>>is huge but it will be useful for determining contacts.
>>
>>I will send copies of these listings to DURLAND, MITFORM and FURT.
>>If anyone else wants them, I can send a copy to them as well.
>>
>>It would be great if we could have this done by the end of August.
>>With this information, we can scope out the project better and come up
>>with a realistic conversion schedule. And we can get started with
>>testing each form at the beginning of September.
>>
>>Would someone please get back to me and let me know if we can get this
>>done by the end of August? And if not, what a better date would be?
>>Also, can we assign a point person to lead this effort?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Rachel
>
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