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3/27/2006

Landscape Change Project: meeting

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:14 pm
(filed under category Landscape Change=> Projects)

Met with team to review progress.

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New Intel mac

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 10:27 am
(filed under category Overhead=> Projects)

Unpack, configure, install, test, migrate

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3/15/2006

Web Team meeting

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:39 pm
(filed under category Overhead=> Projects)

Tatianna and I met informally for about an hour on Wednesday. These note are reproduced from memory, and may contain errors or ommisions..
Mostly, we enumerated a project list:

Projects (partial list)
update campus map
web interface for UVM Web Template Publishing System
Additional nesting of sub menus: programming and implementation strategy; visual look and feel
e-commerce tools
possible implementation and evaluation [...]

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Landscape Change Project: thinking

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:37 pm
(filed under category Landscape Change=> Projects)

I’m currently giving serious consideration to a hashed asset store for the images, rather than /:/perkins/landscape/Addision or /:/perkins/landscape/photos/Addison/LS10560_000.jpg, something like
/asset_store/10/56/LS10560_000.jpg /asset_store/10/56/LS10560_001.jpg
we can then dump all the other LS10560 related bitstreams in the same bucket.
Also might want to drop an XML file for each asset in there, too, for METS use, [...]

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3/14/2006

Landscape Change Project: meeting

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:55 pm
(filed under category Landscape Change=> Projects)

Progress reports, planning roadmap.

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Videoconferencing is still silly

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:55 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Video and Audio)

Terry Reilly asked about desktop video conferencing for distance learning, which gave me a chance to review the current (and past) crop of "solutions."
The Chat Applications
Pro: AIM, MSN, etc. operate the "directory server" which facilitates connections by mapping familiar names, or screen names, to IP addresses. Con: you need a screen name for that sevice, [...]

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3/6/2006

Media Techcats

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:38 pm
(filed under category Overhead=> Projects=> Video Labs)

Met with Holly, Judi, Paul, Harley, Malachi, and the media techcats to discuss policies, procedures, and the like. my notes:
1) introductions:    a) who are you (TechCats). I need everyone’s NetID for 2b below
        malichi        wesley        sarah        Judi Bradley        jeremy            Graham        sean  brown        paul philbin        harley [...]

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3/2/2006

LRG MCU

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:36 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Video and Audio)

Visited with Foster Nye to learn about their Codian MCU 4205 and associated video conferencing services. Don’t forget Foster’s phone number!

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Cristina’s World Literature Class

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:35 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Web Publishing Support)

One and one half hour Web Page (with Mozilla Composer) construction class

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