Weekly review for the week ending 14th of March 2010

Last week I said I would:

1. Announce changed responsibilities and hold meetings with people that will be reporting to me in the new structure. (new org structure announced, I had meetings with some of the people affected, will have more next week)
   
2. Deliver ISKS talk at the University of Limerick. (done)
   
3. Finalize the plans for Portal and Mashup Maker to move to the latest Sametime API. (still not finalised)
   
4. Start high level discussions with Lotus Connections about how the two products can work together better. (meeting held but discussion could not be completed in tie available - another scheduled for next week)
   
5. Work with the Open Client teal to build new CF1 SUT kit for Linux users within IBM (done - expect new kit will be released within a few days)
   
6. Discuss with Sametime team the possibility of changing the Sametime Linux kit build process and install process to match what has been requested by the Open Client team. (discussion held - but no decision yet on future plans)
   
7. Continue to use Remember the Milk to evaluate its ease of use - I will need more time using it to make a proper evaluation before I write up my assessment
   
8. Micro-blogging on multiple platforms (nothing done this week)
   
   • Debug problems with WildFire 1.3.
     
   • If I get above item done - persuade them to implement a pluggable interface for additional services so that we can add support for IBM internal services
     
   • Evaluate Bluto and write up on my blog
     

Next Week I will to the following actions:

1. Meet with the remaining people affected by the org changes
2. Plan a communications meeting for my newly enlarged team
3. Help present to a visiting executive who is starting a new project in the Dublin lab
   
4. Finalize the plans for Portal and Mashup Maker to move to the latest Sametime API.
   
5. Continue high level discussions with Lotus Connections about how the two products can work together better.
   
6. Help with testing ST 8.5.1 on Linux - particularly Pulse Audio support
   
7. Discuss with Sametime team the possibility of changing the Sametime Linux kit build process and install process to match what has been requested by the Open Client team. (discussion held - but no decision yet on future plans)
   
8. Blog about my experiences of using Remember the Milk  and then switch back to using Notes ToDos with following the advice from David Allen's guide
   
9. I will postpone all work with Wildfire (realistically I don't have time to make progress)