[543] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: Two Key Learnings from Today's OCMG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mary Ellen Bushnell)
Mon Sep 18 09:30:06 2000
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:29:58 -0400
To: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.Edu>,
Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>
From: Mary Ellen Bushnell <bushnell@MIT.EDU>
We've got a start on the printing@mit page. See
http://web.mit.edu/is/help/printing
At 9:19 AM -0400 9/17/00, David F Lambert wrote:
>Gang,
>
>Two items I picked up on at Tuesday's OCMG...
>
>Matt mentioned a documentation model for his IMAP project which
>we've talked about after seeing Syracuse's web pages on printing
>at their university. Matt talked about a new "email homepage"
>as a home directory pointing to everything you want to know about
>email @ mit. Today we point to platform specific email info from
>the related platform's web pages. For example, mainframe email
>help is available from mainframe related help directories, and
>the same is true for mh for Athena. I like Matt's model and propose
>we follow the same path for printing @ mit.
>
>Of more immediate concern, JDB was clearly interested in seeing
>the business model to support the new printing services. He reaffirmed
>this work must be completed before we roll out the service to any
>new customers. The main issue being the potential for adding a
>significant number of customers without any additional funding
>sources (if we go with the model of using existing budgeted
>ASOP & ASAP dollars).
>
>Food for thought for Cecilia & MEB...
>
>-Dave
