Katy Dickinson

Caboose Work Update

Last weekend, John was wearing his OpenSolaris Governing Board hat at the 2nd OpenSolaris Developer Summit on the University of California at Santa Cruz campus. Today, he is at the CommunityOne event at The Moscone Center in San Francisco and JavaOne starts tomorrow, also at Moscone.

So, I have been gardening but we haven't gotten much done on WP668, our backyard caboose. However, four caboose projects which depend on other people's work are creeping toward completion:

• The metal roof should be installed on within a week - I am waiting for the exact date to be set.
• I ordered the Western Pacific Feather River Route replacement decal today (from the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, they had extras). The metal plate on which the decal will go is is 23-1/2" tall by 25-1/2" wide.
• The new subfloor and linoleum go in on 19-20 May.
• Vince Taylor may have the stained glass panels done this month. He came by on Saturday to show me the scale drawings and more glass samples. He would have been done sooner but had a big show at Filoli which changed his schedule.

Posted at 06:08PM May 05, 2008 by katysblog in Caboose Project and Other Trains  | 

PreSEED Mentor Matching Starts

The 52 PreSEED participants submitted their Mentor Wish Lists this morning, starting the mentor matching cycle for this term. Tanya Jankot spent the morning updating participants' web pages and learning goals from emails over the weekend. Once we were set to go, she and I went through the lists to find the highest priority potentially-available mentor. (Among this PreSEED term's lists, there were 9 potential mentors who had more than one request for them at #1 priority. There were 36 potential mentors requested by five or more participants. 191 unique mentors were requested.)

I just finished sending individual emails to all 52 first contact potential mentors. Now we wait for their responses... During the next two weeks, I expect to have a mentor match for at least 80% of the participants. I plan to match all of them within the next 45 days.

For the flow charts of this process, see "SEED: Sun engineering enrichment & development" Research Disclosure Database Number 482013, defensive publication in Research Disclosure, Published in June 2004, Electronic Publication Date : 17 May 2004 (5 pages, PDF format)

PreSEED is a pilot of the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program. More information on SEED is available at http://research.sun.com/SEED/

Posted at 05:28PM May 05, 2008 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  |