WALRUS Meeting Minutes
January 27, 2009
9:30am – 11:00am
Holton 241
In attendance: Dave M Schuckit, Titus A Curtain, Timothy T Miles, Mark H Huang, John P Mills, Peter E Robinson, Tamara D Edmond, Sarah Eowyn Lill, Donna G Genzmer, Ricky D Kaja, Brett S Ketter, Quinn K Madson, Thomas H Hruby, Richard C Singer, Trevor James Schara, Joseph Steinbring
I. Open
a. John Mills provided today’s Bagels
b. We went around the table and introduced ourselves because of the new people in the group
II. Quinn Madson’s Presentation On Subversion and RapidSVN
a. Subversion
i. Video on what Subversion is and why it’s useful
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wYiabh2hpM
ii. Subversion is useful for storing code, word documents, etc.
iii. Documents and tutorials are available on Quinn’s public panthefile space
1. http://pantherfile.uwm.edu/qkmadson/public/svn/
iv. UITS has a Subversion server in use and a WALRUS repository currently exists on it
1. https://svn.uits.uwm.edu/repositories/walrus/
2. Currently, only members of the WALRUS Website and Code Repository subcommittees have access to the repository but once a plan is designed for use of the repository, access will be opened up to the rest of the group.
b. RapidSVN
i. RapidSVN has the benefit of being available for windows, OS X, or linux.
ii. RapidSVN has been the base standard in UITS but there are many alternatives (some of which integrate into your editor of choice)
iii. http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/
III. Subcommittee Reports
a. CSS
i. Haven’t met since the last general meeting
ii. Planning on meeting tomorrow at 3:00pm in Holton g37
b. WALRUS Website and Code Repository
i. No significant developments since last general meeting
ii. Haven’t met since last general meeting
iii. Time and location of the next meeting is TBA
c. Environment-X
i. Attended the last UTR meeting to explain what WALRUS is and to ask for names of interested stake-holders to talk to in divisions.
ii. Planning on making an appeal for names of interested stake-holders at the next Chairs and Directors meeting.
iii. Made a list of people to contact in various departments, in an attempt to get a list of interested stakeholders to interview and assigned tasks to subcommittee members.
iv. Last met 01/20
v. Next meeting is scheduled for 02/04 at 2:00.
d. New Subcommittee?
i. John Mills and Homer Hruby proposed that we form a google analytics subcommittee once one or more existing subcommittee completes its task and dispands.
IV. Other Business
a. Quinn mentioned IMified as a promising technology that could be used to disseminate information on campus.
i. http://new.imified.com/
ii. Currently being looked at by Robert Nunez for use as a IT Status bot
b. John asked if we could do a roundtable discussion next meeting.
V. Closing
a. The next meeting is scheduled for February 17 at 9:30 in Holton 241.
b. If you are not currently on a subcommittee and would like to be on one, feel free to contact the members of that subcommittee to join one. Refer to the blog for contact info.
Note: This document will be distributed via the blog, the reflector (web-developers@uwm.edu), and pantherfile (https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/josephs7/public/walrus/).
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