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Update Items & 2/10 Meeting Notes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F. Lambert)
Fri Feb 11 11:52:48 2000
Message-Id: <10002111651.AA28049@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 00 11:49:16 EST
From: "David F. Lambert" <LAMBERT@mitvma.mit.edu>
To: Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>
Folks,
Here are a few update items and some notes from yesterday's techie
meeting.
Tidbits:
- obtained account rep info for Barr Systems - Scott Kelley
- Barr Systems acct rep & IBM equivalents are not available
until next week
- received the Moore Report yesterday via email; will forward
to the team this morning for review and comment; please review
the report by 2/17 and post comments/issues/questions to
the list by then
- Dave met with Ferrara to review progress; Bob was particularly
pleased to see a draft WBS & timeline
- Dave held 1-on-1 team member chats to obtain buy-in for
segregating the business modeling work from the technical work
- Dave met with Schiller re printing security guidelines; offer was
made to have the team draft something for Jeff's subsequent
massaging and approval
- Rocklyn & Dave met twice to work on the draft WBS & timeline
2/10 Meeting (Attendees: Mike, Rocklyn & Dave)
- Developed the following list of topics to be discussed at the
vendor dog & pony shows
o review of functionality
o end user interface
o operator interface
o scriptability (commandline vs GUI interface issue)
o queue definition and management interface
o security (several aspects)
o forms overlay capabilities (ex: W2)
o delegation of authority; what functions, granularity, etc.
o printer integration; print drivers, printers, tightly coupled?, etc
o internal architecture
- Based on feedback from Jeff, Mike made a second pass at the
security guideline statement. Mike's second draft was reviewed
at the meeting. Rocklyn will review the "style, tone, etc." of
other Integration guidelines, and rework Mike's latest draft
accordingly. Mike's Rev 2 (nice job, Mike) is available at
http://web.mit.edu/mwhitson/Project/eprint-security
- Assignments:
o All: review Moore report; comments/questions/issues are due to our
email list by 2/17
o Rocklyn to review the Integration docs and rework our security
draft accordingly (due 2/17)
o Dave & Rocklyn to meet and make third pass at the WBS & timeline;
goal: make available to team for their review by 2/15; publish
on web by 2/22
o Mike will contact Dr Powell (carryover); follow up with Jeff Bant
of IBM re unanswered questions
o Dave will schedule presentations by Barr & IBM; will shoot for
scheduling these presentations during the regular Thursday meeting
slot but slightly extended (1:30-3:30); all team members are
encouraged to attend; Dave will provide the vendors with the
list of topics of interest (see above)
o Rocklyn & Dave will review the I-data architecture
o Mary Ellen will capture and publish these meeting notes
