Summer Fun

Summer Plan 07

• Create Studio Aide Summer Schedule - Andy
  • Media Technicians
  • Equipment Specialists
  • Tutors
  • Keep track of tutors tutoring
  • Game Studio Aides
• Purge deprecated equipment _before_ orientation - Everyone?
• Reconfigure rm 409/413/ *608?? - Mark / Brian
  • 409 assemble carts
  • 409 rip out counters
  • 409 paint room
  • 413 assemble carts
  • 413 rip out counters
  • 413 paint room
  • 608 remove counter
  • 608 teacher machine on a cart
  • 608 celling project
• Get part time faculty to read the website
• Redo Fiber Core of IAM network (mas fiber = mas faster) - Jeff
• Build and Test Vista image (32 and 64 bit) - Mark & Brian
• Build and test Intel-mac 64 bit dual boot image (can Intel Mac boot pxe or UNDI) Huey
• Deploy New Ghost Server (server and clients) Jeff & Mark & Brian
  • Upgrade all current clients
  • Test new images
• Make the render farm actually work and document procedures - Huey & Brian
  • foliage
  • Read rush docs
  • Add machines and edit hosts files
  • Test Firewall settings
  • Setup render storage server
  • configure/document submit procedures
  • build a render server
• Fix subnet problems with flexlm key servers - Jeff
• clean out 404 - Mark
• turn 404 into game development room - Mark / Brian
• Documentation
  • Network Docs - Jeff & Mark
    • Network wiki
  • Clean up wiki , categorize pages - SallieDotGordon

make sure every page has a category, remove stubs.

• Super fun work for studio aides - Jeff & Andy & Brian
  • go through Wikidocs, make an inventory
  • test the data on each page, make sure things work as they are written
  • report each test as successful
  • report changes that need to be made
  • anticipate changes that will still be needed
  • help salliedotgordon move her desk, file cabinet and shelf unit
  • create resource library in 624 M front reception area
  • rearrange 624 reception area furniture
  • Faculty/Student Docs and FAQs
  • clean out IAM book library in Brian's office (those Director 6 books aren't helping anyone)
  • Digitize Christiane Paul video
  • Digitize video for Annette
  • Label videos that need to digitized with sticky note, digitize and replace stickey not with dvd
  • Digitize GDC docs
  • Add formal documentation to burning process
    • Inventory RM 406
    • harvest report on results from curriculum/faculty
• Make the remote access lab actually work - Jeff & Brian
• Clean up and organize Game Lab - Brian
  • Inventory system
  • Cabinets
  • what is the vision of the game lab - play and screen games
  • what needs to be there
  • what functionality should it have?
  • Game Server loaded with game ISOs
  • DosBoX
  • Old Hardware
• Clean up and organize IAM Library - Brian
  • Upgrade storage space in IAM Library
  • Update MSDNAA and iamlibrary files
  • Total training CDs & DVDs
• Web Programming Projects - Jeff
  • Equipment Checkout System
  • WorkAid Time System
    • Tutor Feedback System
    • Email coordinators and tutors
• Adobe Flex and Breeze servers - Huey
  • Train Faculty in Flex and Breeze - Nikki
• Streaming server - Huey
• 405 Audio - Mark & Brian
• Fix broken speakers (I have many) - Jeff & Brian
• Upgrade MediaWiki, phpBB, wordpress - Jeff & Andy
• Develop backup strategy for imamp/siam2 - Jeff & Andy
• HDTV editing system set up - Brian
• prep for move to 624 while rehab is happening
• add audio record and mix to 405 main and projection booth
• Second Life projects
  • plan intermediary vision for island (incl. events)
  • possible Film/Video conference exhibition
  • Andy is going to SL Edu Best Practices conference May 25 (in-world)
  • Train studio aides in SL essentials
  • offer workshop series
  • build working CTA train
  • Second Life Community Convention (Hilton) Andy & SallieDotGordon
    • Friday-Sunday Aug 24-26
    • Construct trade show booth (large format prints)
  • Orientation / Connections will include SL demos
    • Monday-Wednesday Aug 27-29
  • NinJam at the Marshal Stacks - Brian & Jeff
• Work with Jon Cancelino (not working until later in the summer)to come up with workshops//documentation for DID classes - Andy
• Asset collection and management solution (archive student work)- Jeff & Mirella
• SCRUM!!!
• Big Infrared Touch Screen - Make it Work - Maybe Brian
• Equipment planning and budgeting (part of spend down?)
  • 10 digital SLR Cameras ~ $5000
  • As many flat panels as we can get for $10000
• Choose student work to distribute on promotional flash drives - Tracy
  • t-shirt design too.
• Research decorations for setting up booths at conferences - Andy &/or Mark
• slayer.

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Finished

• Setup rm 420 as game research studio - Brian
  • per Mirella, they will use 420 (ixne'd the 419 idea)