Since there are many basic things that needed to be done at the start of my ambassadorship (a learning/training plan is clearly laid out), I thought I would recount my progress in the last month so that I can keep track of what I have and have not done. Some things are not so clearly laid out, like connecting with the student community at USC and the process of organizing tech talks.
Registered for: Downloaded and installed- Star Office 8 (for PC)
- NeoOffice (for OS X)
- Netbeans 6 (for OS X and PC)
- New Employees
- Campus Ambassadors (Live training)
- Sun time card system
- SunSPOT: Small, Programmable Object Technology (Live training)
- USC Association for Computing Machinery (Contact: David Richardson, Chapter President)
- USC Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Contact: Trevor Johns, Chapter President)
- Project:Possibility (a non-profit organization I chair) - The Semester Project (we are using SunSPOTs!)
- USC Engineering Graduate Student Association (I am a Senator in Computer Science for this organization)
- Tom Light, my account manager (three meetings)
- Brian Lee, CA at UCLA (via email)
- Mark McDuff, potential CA at CalTech (via email)
- Ishwar Parulkar, Sun Engineer on Advisory Board for USC Viterbi EE Deparment (via email)
- Made significant progress on the Curriculum survey
- Was forced to take a paid vacation over Winter break :P
The curriculum survey is a survey of the Computer Science curriculum at which is meant to take stock which Java technologies are being used in which courses. It is quite time consuming and requires a lot of digging.. however, I only need to do it once to get a feel where things are at in the curriculum and set a baseline. There really is no other way to gauge the amount use of Sun open source technology in the curriculum at USC.
Whew.. that was a mouthful. Still more to do. Stay tuned. :)