Summer

Admittedly, I’m writing this post… is it an efficient way of using ten minutes before lunch is ready to be picked up, or is it a way of avoiding doing something more involved with that time?

Summer is always a big to-do.  These projects will get their own entries as I get into them.  The list:

• Performance evaluations. Gotta get those done for my staff and for me.
• WEP website work: I’m making a single centralized signup engine… this is something I keep trying to do and then end up having to make one-off databases and pages for every new signup, but two things have improved: the WEP staff are more uniform in what they want for signups, and I have a pretty good grasp of what’s required.
• Also on the website, better handling of video.  Video content is all over the place and great, but a better way of categorizing it so it can be invoked easily, and for showing “related video”, or a dynamic way to show the front page content (which is currently handled by the announcement engine and hasn’t been updated with “new” video for some time).  This should also simply the current way of posting Alumni Impact content.
• BPC promo videos.  Using footage from the Venture Finals and rehearsals. This will let me break in the new video production machine and software we now have.  Vroom!
• SPIA executive summaries by May 16.
• WEP single-login environment.  This is a big one.  I want to call it “Weasel” internally.  Use a combination of PennKey and Facebook to facilitate one-login way for students to signup for things and auto-gain their existing student info next time they sign up.  Down the road, it’ll show their history of activity, and so on.
• Improvements to WEP website architecture – some of the areas of the site need to expand dramatically to accommodate areas that have grown in importance.
• Venture A Guess 2.0?
• Database-ify the WGFA Newswire newsletter.
• GIS – add links for Digg, del.icio.us, stumbledupon
• Move beyond our current many-computer SizaTola lab.
• Decomission web server once everything remaining is moved to virtual servers.
• BPC to SSL.  New features in BPC for next year?

That’s the quick list.  My food’s ready.