CSC 322.01, Class 04: More partner introductions

Overview

• Preliminaries
  • Notes and news
  • Upcoming work
  • Extra credit
  • Questions
• Quick introduction
• Local foods
• GPCF
• Callisto
• Heartland
• Debrief

Preliminaries

Notes and news

• Good job on Wednesday and Friday last week. You impressed SS.

Upcoming work

• PRINT six copies of your résumé and bring them to class on Wednesday.

Good things to do: Academic

• CS Table and Extras

Good things to do: Miscellaneous

• Women in Computing Thursday at 6pm in CS Commons.
• Trustees are in town Thursday-Saturday, if you have a chance to meet with them, consider using it.

Questions

• If you are registered to vote in Grinnell, vote on the school board issue.

Quick introduction

Local foods

• A nonprofit that is relatively new to Grinnell, but around since 1999.
• Find local growers who farm in an environmentally just way.
• Find community members who don’t have easy access to that food.
• Make connections.
• It’s more than just providing the food, it’s also providing information on how to use the food. Last year they did a demo at MICA. There’s a lot of work to do.
• Another goal is to identify barriers to using the food.
• Last semester’s group built page to allow all of the community to find local resources.
  • Farmers can enter their own information.
  • Plus some sensible administrative support.
  • Cool visuals. (Still in progress.)
  • Also recipes.
• What kind of information do we get from farmers?
  • Location
  • Name of farm
  • Typical things they grow/raise
  • CSA
  • Other features
  • Events
• New feature: Calendar

Callisto

• On-campus project.
• Begun last semester.
• Recording and reporting by victim/survivors of sexual assault.
• Currently multiple approaches for reporting
  • Title IX office
  • Confidential resources (CRSSJ, SHACS, Advocates)
  • HR-based reporting system
• One issue: Anonymous reporting and sense of identifying threats to campus with the same person getting multiple reports.
• Another: These issues are underreported.
• There are benefits to being able to create a report (mostly for their own purposes).
• Callisto was created for these purposes.
• It does some of what we want, but not everything we want.
• It is also costly.
• Our primary interest is as a compassionate resource.
• Last semester we validated that this can be done and some of the related issues.
  • IP issues
  • Secure third-party storage
  • Python and Django
• Needs significant modification. We need to extend it for things like intimate partner violence.
• Advocates and others are thinking through the issues of the front end.
• We’re working on supporting that, including through a more complex back-end.
• Variety of tasks, such as more resource information.
• Multiple clients: Advocates, Title IX, SHACS
• Status?
  • Back-end works well, except for conditional questions.
  • But conditional questions are a huge undertaking.
  • Front-end should mostly be getting the questions in and better styling.

Debrief/review

Survivor support

• Different platform: Python/Django
  • Overall logic is the same
  • Python isn’t that hard to pick up
  • Learning custom is slower
• Building on an open-source code base
• Opportunity to make a difference.
• Documented many important issues
• Lots of legal issues that cause tension

Local Foods

• Very active partner
• Planting season comes soon!
• Different architecture Javascript + Rails backend

PALS

• Partner transition (potential shift in focus)
• Likely to be a long-term, multi-faceted project

GPCF - Grants

• Finish a project
• Worry about issues like document storage on a separate system

Mayflower

• Likely to be a long-term, multi-faceted project
• Able to finish one project and move on to the next.
• UI design opportunities

Heartland - Global Health Cooperative

• Likely to be more open ended.
• Very local client
• Interesting combination of local and global.