CSC 322.01, Class 06: Debrief from partner meetings

Overview

• Preliminaries
  • Notes and news
  • Upcoming work
• Debriefs
• Strengths finder
• Broader lessons

News / Etc.

• Don’t be afraid to ask for help! (From me, from your classmates, from Adam, from the mentors, from the Interweb.)
• Office supplies in the commons. Free will donations.
• Please let me know ASAP if you notice things missing from the Web site. I’m still getting up to speed on Jekyll; this course suffers the most.
• Yes, you can schedule meetings with clients (and, soon, with mentors) during class time. Just give me advance notice so that I can schedule other issues appropriately.
  • Next Wednesday will be work time.
  • After the first four or five weeks, class time is primarily group work time.
• Starting the week after next, we will try to reserve Mondays for progress reports and two-week planning.

Upcoming work

• Read: Don Gotterbarn, Keith Miller, and Simon Rogerson (October 1999). Computer Society and ACM approve Software Engineering Code of Ethics. IEEE Computer 32(10): 84-88. https://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/Publications/code-of-ethics.pdf.
• Read: Peter G. Neumann (February 2015). Inside Risks: Far-sighted thinking about deleterious computer-related events. CACM 59 (2): 30-33. http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/cacm235.pdf.
• Read: ACM Council (October 1992). ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Behavior. http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics/.

Good things to do

Nope, no extra credit.

• CS Table, Tuesday, 7 Feb 2017. Something on privacy.
• Scholars Convocation, Thursday, 9 Feb 2017, 11:00 a.m., JRC 101. David Orr: Climate Change and the Crisis of American Democracy.
• Thursday extras, Thursday, 9 Feb 2017, 4:15 p.m., Science 3821: Something on computer graphics (visitor from UMN).

PSA

Debriefs

The questions I will ask.

• What did you learn from your client (summary)?
• What are your next steps?
• What challenges do you anticipate?
• How much do you think you can accomplish this semester?
• Questions from the other groups

Mayflower

• What did you learn from your client (summary)?
  • We thought is was going to be a social network.
  • They want more of a directory / information page.
  • They want “DB” but for Mayflower residents
  • With other features:
    • Calendar for events
    • FAQ
    • Floorplans of houses
  • Memorial page for members of the community (with sign-in access for community members). Is this accomplishable?
• What are your next steps?
  • Review ideas
  • Meet with clients next Wednesday to understand priorities
  • Talk to Sam about what is possible.
  • Interview some potential users about what they can do with technology.
• What challenges do you anticipate?
  • How much can old people do with technology? (Answer: Lots, if they are motivated.)
  • Working in a big team; need ways to segment work.
  • Security; we’re not that skilled. (And they are not that skilled, either.)
  • They want a lot more than can be done in a semester.
• How much do you think you can accomplish this semester?
  • We’re working on keeping it reasonable.
  • Focus on the DB/Profile.
• Questions from the other groups
  • Ask them: Didn’t they want a way to identify people with common interests?
  • Consider talking to Jake Madren in ITS, who runs DB

Volunteer Board

• What did you learn from your client (summary)?
  • A way for the organization to create events and keep track of how comes to them.
  • Rate volunteers.
  • Keep track of events: Where they are, who is coming, who actually shows up.
  • A way for volunteers to see events and express interest, but requires approval.
  • They pay for software to do this already.
  • They want organizations to reach out to them to create an account.
• What are your next steps?
  • Meet with community partner to look at what they already have. Need to set date! Need to assign a liaison.
  • Set up basic framework (but probably need more knowledge)
  • Talk to Board Bank group ; you may find synergies
• What challenges do you anticipate?
  • The “check in” issue.
  • Making everything come together.
  • Start thinking about the different roles.
• How much do you think you can accomplish this semester?
  • Create accounts.
  • Set up events.
• Questions from the other groups

CS Academic Job Board - “Tall Order”

• What did you learn from your client (summary)?
  • Bringing opportunities to students to a centralized site would be good. (Hmmm … are we replicating GrinnelLINK + SpamR?)
  • Portal for students, alumni, etc.
  • Need ways to authenticate
• What are your next steps?
  • Set goals.
  • Overall structure.
• What challenges do you anticipate?
  • Unclear expectations of what we are doing.
  • Authentication! / Limited access?
  • Coordinating with GrinnellLINK?
• How much do you think you can accomplish this semester?
  • Everything other then authentication, limited access, and coordination with GrinnellLINK.
• Questions from the other groups
  • If it’s really for students, will it include academic research opportunities, such as REUs or on-campus MAPs?

SpamR

• What did you learn from your client (summary)?
  • Students don’t read email, even when it has important information like announcements of job boards.
  • People would like to read postings that were made in the past.
  • So our goal is to archive all of the emails. Yay!
  • Could serve as a filtering system; rather than subscribing to the mailing list, you could subscribe to this thingy and indicate subsets you want to receive and don’t want to receive.
• What are your next steps?
  • Bad jokes.
  • Think about the data model.
  • Start writing use cases.
  • Make a bare bones site using Rails generate.
  • Learn how to make email redirect to a Web site.
• What challenges do you anticipate?
  • Everything.
  • MIME-encoded email with attachments (blame Nathaniel)
  • Insufficient vision
  • Security (?)
  • Unavailable client
  • Telling a coherent story
• How much do you think you can accomplish this semester?
  • An archive with a front end.
  • That will take input from mail.
• Questions from the other groups

CS Curricular Planning

• What did you learn from your client (summary)?
• What are your next steps?
• What challenges do you anticipate?
• How much do you think you can accomplish this semester?
• Questions from the other groups