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{{Draft}}[[Category:Chris Tyler's Drafts]]A draft of general policies and procedures for CDOT Researchers (employees).

= Work Environment =

== Researcher Hours ==

* Flex hours
** To foster collaboration, all researchers are expected to be present from 10 am through 3 pm four days per week, including the weekly meeting day
** Otherwise, researchers schedule their own hours

== System Backup ==

* Researchers are responsible for backing up their own work
* Data files should be replicated from local workstations to the NAS server and/or checked in to the appropriate repository daily
* Files should be burnt to optical media at the end of each weekday

== System Administration ==

* Each researcher is the primary administrator of the system in their cubicle
* Each researcher has access to the other development systems
* Don't blow up other people's work
* Use the Best Practices for the operating system used on your machine (e.g., use OS-provided packages and directory locations wherever possible)

= Communication =

* Blogging
** Prepare a short blog post about your work each day. Tag all of these posts for distribution to the internal planet.
** Post out to the CDOT public planet and to your community's planet a minimum of twice a week
* Wiki
** Update your project timeline daily
** Document APIs changes and other development results within the week in which they are made
* IRC
** Researchers should be on IRC while they are working
** Join freenode:#seneca, moznet:#seneca (general Seneca open source discussions), freenode:#seneca-cdot (CDOT employee discussions), and the channels most suited to your project(s)

= Meetings =

* Weekly Meeting
** Held in the Conference Room (T1012)
** Each researcher is expected to give a brief status update