Spring 2009 Digitising Hampshire Syllabus

04-28

 * How Digitising Hampshire will work next semester - work on Hampedia projects on own time, come in to present and discuss, encouraging people to collaborate
 * Options: Economics of Cyberspace, register for this Mt Holyoke course, do DH alongside, or just do DH as EPEC
 * Postcards for incoming students, steps for preparing Hampedia for this
 * Calendar, Mapping, etc
 * Work over the summer?
 * Governance structure for Hampedia, need to develop it so that there are two specific areas - development and education, and then the board for oversight
 * Give orientation tutorial, this year- who would want to come early and give a tutorial?
 * Do JanTerm Hampedia EPEC?
 * Next year, really need to publicize Hampedia to the outside world

04-22

 * Attendance: Jose, Madeleine, Ben, Jake
 * Discussed some of IT's complaints about Hampedia, mostly relating to data we've gotten from The Hub.
 * Dan Parker also has root access to pitus, so should everything go south, he should be able to help.
 * Jose is working on a design for a postcard to send to all new students.
 * PIZZA!

04-15

 * Attendance: Jose, Madeleine, Ben, Fred, Fletcher, Jake.


 * Discussed extensions, search improvements, made some server adjustments, broke and fixed Hampedia several times over the course of the class.
 * Also moved forward on semantic layers and SVG support.

04-08

 * Attendance: Adam, Fletcher, Justin, Ben, Leanna, Madeleine, Ananda, Jake. Jose is out sick, and Tal is at seder


 * Discussed adding HTML support, to allow for Fletcher's 3D model viewer. Issue: will allow people to add Javascript which can perform session hijacking. However, an RSS feed could be filtered to just show html edits, so that someone can be watching out for malicious changes
 * Niko is presently creating a cron job (daily backups)
 * Niko will get openlayers, new mediawiki, etc uploaded by next Wednesday
 * Advertising for pre-lottery supermarket - asking Jose to create posters

04-01

 * Attendance: Jose, Fletcher, Leanna, Madeleine

03-25

 * Attendance: Jose, Ben, Fletcher, Tal, Leanna, Madeleine

03-11

 * Ben has a tentative meeting scheduled with Bob Crowley in early April to discuss the physical infrastructure of the Internet, where we do/don't have Internet, etc
 * The back-up server is up and running now! Yayy! Niko is going to begin having Hampedia run backups.
 * The Pre-Lottery Supermarket is our highest priority. Ian is still working in it. Adam, Ananda, and Jake will meet with him online (hampedia room on Ornia IRC) next Wednesday at 7pm, to give him feedback

03-04

 * While free file formats are very important, not being able to upload/download .doc files is extremely frustrating for members of the Hampshire community (and .ppt and .mp3 to a lesser extent). What do we do about that?


 * Everyone HAS to come to the meetings. gurrrrr! I shouldn't have to send out an email reminder every week!

02-25

 * In the future, it would be great to have a better course search system thatn theHub, as that will gain us more traffic


 * The President is really excited about Hampedia; he wants to send info about it to accepted students as well as to students who decide to come to Hampshire. He intends to write a blog post endorsing Hampedia, which will hopefully get more professors and administrators on board


 * The Pre-Lottery Supermarket is going to be officially used by the college, so we need to improve it


 * Data types: Looking for mod members, looking for mod group, and completed mod group posting points


 * The Letter to Division 3 Chairs has been drafted.

02-11

 * We need root access!
 * MoHopedia people will start coming to our meetings, so that we can collaborate
 * Main Page: We need to develop the constituent-specific main pages. What should be on each one's page?
 * Ananda, Madeleine, and Justin will work with Jose on the Main Page
 * Deadline for new Main Page: by the end of Spring Break
 * Issue: People editing budget pages. There needs to be a disclaimer that they should check the history to ensure that only FiCom members have edited the page.
 * New Member!
 * Ben Karnow - wants to work on IT-related pages on Hampedia, and also general consistency checking on Hampedia, doing whatever articles needed, open to doing lots of different work, bot work
 * What to do about the Spring course listings? If we can grab the LDAP data, it would be extremely easy
 * Many offices are unhappy with the idea of having to update their presence on Hampedia, on top of updating their presence on the official school website. They want the Hampedia pages to simply link directly the the official website. Ananda intends to begin meeting with individual offices, making it progress from below

02-04
What are you interested in working on this semester?


 * Samuel Phillips - Researching Hampshire, writing articles for Hampedia, history. Interested in figuring out more efficient, clean way to organize info


 * Ian McEwen - Continuing work on Semantic Wiki, announcement system, bots.


 * Paul Sawaya - Write software, possibly work on the mapping.


 * Tal Schechter - Wants to collect syllabi and put them up on Hampedia.


 * Fred Concklin - Want to setup a calendar.


 * Jacob Brooks - Want to add content, do photography, mapping.


 * Leanna Pohevitz - Put up audio/video of all CC meetings online. Make an informational packet for all new members of Council and put it on Hampedia. Also working on adding first-year information to Hampedia


 * Madeleine Hahn - Want to work on writing articles, making sure everything is connected, have redirects.


 * Jose Fuentes - Structure, working on redesign of main page.


 * Justin Kahn - Make Hampedia more accessible to the average student, revamping the main page, the way the pages connect together/tagging, calendar.
 * Fletcher West - Model the campus, integrate the models into Hampedia, and add content where needed.
 * Benjamin Karnow - Writing articles, connectivity, improving the IT information on Hampedia, other misc. articles as appropriate or desired.


 * Ananda Valenzuela - Continue education and outreach, work more with administrative offices, get student workers for Hampedia, reach out to students, help with reworking of main page and other students' projects

We want to work more on collaboration, do things in groups more.


 * Paul and Jake intend to work on mapping together