--- title: Eboard 06 Debrief from partner meetings number: 6 section: eboards held: 2017-02-03 --- 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. . * Read: Peter G. Neumann (February 2015). Inside Risks: Far-sighted thinking about deleterious computer-related events. CACM 59 (2): 30-33. . * Read: ACM Council (October 1992). ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Behavior. . ### 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