2011

Getting Things Done - Time Management Schemes
Inspired by the geek-friendly book by David Allen
Summary of book: Keep making lists and allocating time; continual reevaluation; make all your time useful.
"something that takes less than 5 minutes: just do it now"
Lots of reasons geeks might not be best time managers! Not process-oriented?
Many Training and other time management resources available at Stanford
Some time management approaches represented by people in the group:
use white boards with biweekly refresh,

Attendees include residential computing, ITS and residential & dining enterprises

HPC - What Is It?
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"When your problem outgrows what you can run on your personal system"
- Parallel systems, specialized hardware
Where are the boundaries? Very unclear; is it based on number of systems?
Methods of invocation? Number of processors?
Users towards HPC (parallelism)
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Similar problem to "running on multicore" issues -> we're sharing problems
with other domains
How much can your work be split up? Separate jobs; parallel jobs

Talked about business applications/process at Stanford and how the mice were very hard at work in the background working overtime to keep up. Lack of automation and process will not serve Stanford in the future and make it very difficult to scale to remote locations such as NYC. Easy to find examples of which the following were discussed:
- Pat has been approached with needs for applicant tracking tools for summer school students, postdocs, etc. Today, most of this is being done manually by staff and students via paper hardcopy.

Malware is an ongoing and widespread issue. Platforms previously considered relatively safe (Mac) are now getting targeted at an increasing rate.
[Discussed an example where a keylogger was found on a Stanford machines - web site in China selling SUNet IDs to get into PubMed for free]

What does OpenFlow/Software Defined Networking provide?
- the first significant change in networking in the last 1 to 2 decades
- enables virtualization and provide services on the network
Networking Now
- Base of Specialized Packet Forwarding Hardware
- Operating System
- Features
- Networking has been stagnant in its evolution (Ethernet, Wifi, IP)
- Rate of change in networking has been slow; need better tools to facilitate change
SDN/OpenFlow
- Growing community (200+ deployments)
- Open network flow, as opposed to Closed Systems

drupalfeatures.stanford.edu
Started by showing http://learndrupal.stanford.edu site, overview of resources available/shared by/with Stanford Drupallers.
Problem: Lots of different Drupal site builders on campus recreating content-types for same kinds of content. Features "bundle" content-types, views, and module selection (from those available/installed) to create what is, technically, a new, custom module.
John has built a Drupal Features Server ... a repository and builder for Drupal features. drupalfeatures.stanford.edu

Why the topic "Lecture Recording"?

lecture capture currently hot topic on campus
many different approached of several departments
with Apple's Xserve being discontinued, the need for new technology is emerging

Introduction of LKSC

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Issues: Data protection, cost, multi-protocol access (dropbox), policies/procedures, performance, compliance (DR, security, auditing), reliability (incl network connectivity), searchability/navigability, access control, provisioning.
Solutions (SaaS storage & build yourself):
> Network bandwidth usually not the issue.
> Build yourself allows peace of mind, possible network performance advantage, backup/archive options.

Photos of the notes that were on the board:
http://t.co/vixGrm84
http://t.co/cWrkXVSR
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Peter Chen
Technical Webmaster
Was at Stanford from 1996 - 2006
Jamie Taui - School of Medicine
What are others doing with SEO on their site? Analytics? What kinds of content?
Chuck Gasperi it
Vicky - hr
Phil - Sciences, IT management
Mark - Alumni Association, analytics
J Gingold - Alumni Association / Interactive Services