Katy Dickinson

Caboose Flooring Done

Today, I worked from home to keep an eye on the crew who were installing the new flooring in WP668, our backyard caboose. Wei, the craftsman from Armstrong Carpet & Linoleum, did an admirable job. I am so entirely glad I did not listen to the people who said that linoleum is easy to install yourself. I do not have the experience, skill, or patience Wei does. For nine hours, he used very precise simple and specialized tools, made templates, and took great trouble to get the measurements on 390 square feet of floor correct to within 1/8" inch. Our new floor is alligned, flat, and perfectly fitted.

See yesterday's blog for WP668 history and photos of the subfloor going in. Here are pictures from today:

WP668 - May 2008

Caboose Cactus

Building Permit

1st Linoleum Roll

Starting Linoleum Installation

Linoleum Installation

100# Floor Roller

Rolling Linoleum

Linoleum Installation

Putting Down Glue

Linoleum Fitted to Doorway

Middle and Side Done

Putting Down Glue

Linoleum Mostly Done

Replacing Doors

Linoleum All Done!

Wei's Tools

Wei's Tools

Wei's Tools

Wei's Tools

Wei's Tools

Images Copyright 2008 by Katy Dickinson

Posted at 10:31PM May 13, 2008 by katysblog in Caboose Project and Other Trains  |  Comments[2]

23 PreSEED Mentor Matches Confirmed

We are in the mentor matching cycle for the 52 PreSEED participants. I sent out the first mentor request emails on 5 May and I have 23 match confirmations so far this morning (44% done in the first 8 days). Last week was the 2nd OpenSolaris Developer Summit on the University of California at Santa Cruz campus, plus the CommunityOne event and JavaOne at The Moscone Center in San Francisco, so many potential mentors were too busy to reply. However, there has been a good response since then.

When the SEED program first started in 2001, it was limited to Sun Engineering staff working in the USA. Since then, the scope of the mentoring program has broadened. The current group of PreSEED mentors includes senior staff from: Bangalore, India; Dublin, Ireland; Grenoble, France; and Prague, Czech Republic; as well as those based in the USA.

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

Posted at 10:28AM May 13, 2008 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  |