Mon Jul 6 15:01:58 EDT 2009
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Since my previous field report, I have:
- participated in a discussion of how the CCTS (the org I'm serving)
should develop its "business" in the future. - helped the hiring process by placing ads and by participating in
the interview of a candidate; - studied some existing, alternative, Content Management Systems
(CMS) not invented at CCTS, as candidate replacements for the CMS
that was invented at CCTS; - demonstrated a pattern for adding automated tests for the CCTS
CMS, documenting the tests, and at the same time, documenting the
requirements; - investigated somewhat into how we might be able to achieve
a cleaner separation between
the core CMS and the customizations of it to the needs of specific
clients; - maintained a file server (made backups, etc.) for the office files
- maintained an environment for our software development
(using the Ubuntu distribution); - supported workstations running one of Microsoft's operating systems
- helped move the office;
- constructed a "sandbox" installation of the CCTS CMS for
demonstrating its ease of use; - contributed time to the maintenance of the CMS;
- participated in an interim edit of the old, static, CCTS web site
- taught other personnel about programming techniques and principles
(e. g., finite-state machines).
Please keep in mind that since the purpose of the CCTS is to build the
capacity of other organizations, anything I do that helps CCTS,
contributes to capacity building in the social-profit sector.
