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Mapping Technology to Geography
Dylan J. SatherGrinnell College
I'm new to this...
So please, be critical!
Even if the map doesn't fit in your environment...
Grinnell College
~1600 students Middle of Iowa Liberal Arts school 70-100 student staff at any given time ~25 student Helpdesk staff Around 18 public labs, 20 public printers
Who are we, and what do we do?
The old way: inefficient
But I wanted something else, too...
The new way: just relax!
How can it help you?
Toner/OO e-mails Fewer calls, happier users
Statistics galore Rates of toner usage, printer uptime (,
lab usage) Free, open...
MIT License, runs on free OS + software
How can it help users?
New to campus? Help Freshmen find labs and printers
Up at odd hours? Perhaps you don't know when Lab X is
open Printing somewhere?
Make sure your printer is ready to rock Much more...
Utility is proportional to geography
Questions so far?
Demo
Individual Lab Maps
I know you're yearning to ask some questions...
Maintainability
What would you need to change?
Picture, locations, names Toner scripts Grinnell-specific stuff And of course, anything else you see fit!
What does the future hold?
Toner Prediction Lab Search Scripts in Perl/Python Modularize Grinnell-specific features “Installation” scripts Much, much more...
Any more questions?
Thanks for coming!
http://www.resnetsymposium.org/rspm/evaluation/
