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Presentation of the project portion of Master's work, exploring means of teaching technology content via distance education.
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Rudolph Jakob Heuser
Gaia InteractiveDeveloper FastStart
Rudolph Jakob HeuserMIST CapstoneiTCD @ CSUMBJuly 29, 2006
Rudolph Jakob Heuser
What is Gaia?
• Social Community
• Gaming, Networking, Chatting
• Just Recently Funded
• Massively Hiring
Rudolph Jakob Heuser
Growing How Fast?
• October 2004: 9 employees
• October 2005: 25 employees
• July 2006: 40 employees
• Dec 2006: 80-100 employees (projected)
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Training? Yeah, Right
Your New Developer(Week 1)
Your New Developer(Week 4)
The Fruits of 2 Mentor’s Efforts
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Self Training Failures
• Paper-Based - Got Lost
• Online “Intranet” - Kludgy To Use
• Gaia “Wiki” - Even Kludgier
• Mentoring System...A “Long Tail” Approach (They’ll get it eventually, right?)
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Get In The Workflow
1. php.net
2. Google
3. “Sneakernet” and “Meatspace”
4. E-mail
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Instruction via Wiki?
• Linear tutorial
• Searchable reference
• Resource beyondweek 2
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Challenges
• Lack of time for testing, development
• Used new developers as guinea pigs
• Lack of time for SME review
• Practical Testing. Material should work.
• Code changed seven times
• Get software installed quickly, let SME update
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Successes
• Wiki so successful it became new Intranet
• Contributed to Open Source Project
Has lessened new developer curve (4-12 days)
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Going Forward
• Improve FastStart based on feedback
• Support Gaia Intranet
• Educate SME’s on content process
• Self Maintaining Documentation
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References
• Sierra, Kathy. “Creating Passionate Users”. Retrieved from http://headrush.typepad.com
• Katherdante. “Attention span of 3 squirrels”. Retrieved from http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35870171/
• Wikipedia.”Wiki”. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
ThanksDerek Liu, James Cao, John Loehrer, Kathy Sierra, Rosalie Strong, Eric Tao, iTCD Faculty and Staff, Gaia Interactive, splitbrain Dokuwiki mailing list