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User:Chris Tyler/draft/CDOT Researchers

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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

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