Summary of March Micronet Meeting:
1. Steve Masover of IST - Application Architecture gave a
presentation on a centrally-hosted Subversion repository service that IST
is preparing to offer the campus (pending approval of a budget request in
the current cycle). Steve's presentation slides can be found
at:
http://ist.berkeley.edu/as/ag/pub/pdf/repositories-micronet-20070320.pdf
The link to IST-Application Services Architecture Group is:
http://ist.berkeley.edu/as/ag
This site presents information that IST-ASAG has discovered or
created to help developers in IST-AS and beyond develop software
services.
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2. In the second half of the meeting Ryan Means asked for comments
and ideas on creating an active community of application / service
developers on campus. Does creation of an active community of
application/service developers on campus warrants forming a new
group? Or should such a group somehow be a part of or attached to
Micronet?
Here are the notes from that discussion :
The last half-hour of Micronet revisited the discussion about the
creation of an application and service developer's community on
campus.
For everyone who might be interested who couldn't make it, here's a
synopsis. My apologies in advance that I don't remember/know the
names of the individuals who made all the great specific suggestions and
recommendations.
It was noted that existing programming-language-centric groups have
withered due to inactivity. We are not attempting to create that
kind of group, and we don't expect this new campus group to be a
supplement for public internet code samples and development
techniques. Rather, we expect the focus to be Berkeley campus
centric. While it may contain code samples or links to code samples
for interfacing with campus services, we expect it to serve primarily as
a communications conduit between campus application developers and users
of campus APIs. It will provide application developers with a way
to discuss current and upcoming projects with their peers across campus,
seek advice on the mitigation of shadow systems and on interfacing with
centrally provided resources human and technological, and a forum for
creating consensus on which improvements in campus infrastructure would
be most highly valued by the local application development
community.
We're planning to start this group off as a SIG of micronet, with it's
own mailing list and bearshare webspace. We're aiming to co-opt
Micronet's meetings at least once a quarter, unless we have enough issues
and demand to create another set of meetings.
We're looking for feedback and ideation on the scope of this new
group.
Hope you'll join us!
Devin Jones
Ryan Means
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Upcoming Meetings:
April Micronet Meeting: April 17. Speaker: Harold
Pakulat, Associate
Director IST Service Desk
May Micronet Meeting: May 15. Kevin Haney from IST and
Kevin Burney from COIS/BFIT on Vista and the nuts and bolts of converting
a department/lab/group to VISTA
Micronet Meetings are held in 150 University Hall, the third Tuesday
of each month (perhaps skipping months in summer) from 10:30 -
noon. There may be a change of location due to construction in
University Hall-- Location will be noted in announcements for the
Micronet meetings.
Claudia Waters
Computing Manager/Lecturer
School of Social Welfare
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Received on Mon Apr 02 2007 - 13:42:36 PDT