I’ve found that filedropper is useful, as it allows the transfer of files up to 5GB in size.
Remembering ‘Dubby’
The Sacremento Bee newspaper ran an obituary of Jay’s father. His dad loved bowling and did a lot to promote the sport among Japanese Americans. His father was also in an internment camp during World War II.
August Team News
- August 15, 2008
- Posted by Dennis
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We enjoyed our first team gathering since late spring. We decide to do a soft launch of our new year as many of our teammates were still out and about. However, Tuesday August 26 we will officially launch the New Year. Yvonne will select some delicious cakes to celebrate some birthdays (mine included this time), so you don’t want to miss it.
There is still so much going on regarding the work of this team. Several of our staff were flown in from around the country to be trained in our new CRS version 2.0 system. Todd sent this message out to some of those involved. I thought you would be encouraged to read it. Todd writes,
Although we had a few small bumps along the way, the CRS training went well. Matt was quick to put out the fires (I’m not sure how he was able to concentrate on the Oracle training classes at the same time).
We got a fair amount of positive comments, especially the look and feel. Thanks Jeff! I think people will have a better sense of the new or improved functionality as they use it on real conferences.
The big news is that our officially announced roll-out date is Wednesday the 20th of August!
Other big news is that Justin Kamiyama is at 95% of raising all his support. Doug and Lori Dawe will be joining our team, and at the end of this month we will be welcoming Trent Murray and Jonathan Beautfort to our team. Both of these guys will be part of Lake Hart STINT.
Twitter is gaining greater use on our team. Tina had a good idea to create a team twitter identity to quickly send out quick tweets for all team members to get. For those of you already setup on Twitter, search on Wearethelab and choose to follow. If you have not set yourself up yet please try it out (go to twitter.com). We are experimenting how this might contribute to greater “teamness”. Everyone that participates gets an iPhone. No, not really, just messing with you.
That is all for now.
P.S. By the way the Twitter movie is working once again. Watch it to learn more about Twitter.
theLAB summer work
It really is fun to watch all that is happening right now. Who said summer is a down time? This summer has been very busy. Here is a list off the top of my head that we have been working on.
- Summer Project Sticker (that was delivered at the beginning of summer)
- Summer Projects Hooray video
- Summer Project Project Yourself (this has run into a snag in that the programming team, FatCat, is now saying they can’t deliver. Yikes! Ask the Lord what you should ask of Him regarding this.)
- Summer Project Web site
- Summer Project I/I video (Gary is shooting in Israel right now!)
- Behind the Scenes video for the work of the Global Film Network shot in Austin, Texas
- Behind the Scenes video for shooting the Hooray video
- Tsunami story in Thailand captured (SimpleBulldog returned at the end of June from recording stories of relief efforts by our ministry in Thailand.)
- Conference Registration System (CRS)
- System Management Server (Jarvis can now through automation setup a PC computer with Vista)
- The Slice survey data reports (Yvonne and Shawna, with out the help of Anna this go around, got these out on time)
- Campus Help Center (Eddie is keeping the tickets cleared [Tina filled in for him while he did his tour this summer. She is really, really, really glad he is back!])
- Back2School Web page
- AllCallings.com involvement portal
- theLAB.uscm.org site (hey you are looking at it right now)
- Essentials materials/presentation
- Hardware acquisitions (Steve Van Eerden is putting an Apple order of more than 20 computers, and Eddie will be putting in an order for PC’s for LH Stinters, Interns, and New Staff joining us in the NCO)
- Our finances (which are always changing) are attended
- The Wiki enjoys ongoing management (as does 9 other web tools)
- Initiated discussions about our mail server system with ITG and CCCi
- Gathering statistical data regarding computing platforms in use that could or should influence future decisions
- Testing of various ways to use TnT MPD with a Mac
- Creation of a New Staff Technology page on the Wiki that instructions them in the use of various tools
- God@WorkPostcards from the Field weekly updates on the Staff Site
- Several LAB members did two weeks of IBS
- I trust ALL LAB members are working on MPD
Even in this list I have missed work that is happening. This is just what I can remember without looking at notes or logs (I think I have a little too much going on in my head). Really if any one of us had that list of work to do we would be sunk, but it is all happening as we work together as a team.