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It is still under construction and content may change. Do not rely on this information.

This is a draft document outlining some 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

Researchers are encouraged to take 10% of their time for self-directed work related to their research projects
- Demos
- Workplace teambuilding
- Experimental ideas/trials
- Fringe infrastructure

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

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)

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 once 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)

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