Mapping Technology to Geography

Dylan J. SatherGrinnell College

I'm new to this...

So please, be critical!

Even if the map doesn't fit in your environment...

Grinnell College

~1600 students Middle of Iowa Liberal Arts school 70-100 student staff at any given time ~25 student Helpdesk staff Around 18 public labs, 20 public printers

Who are we, and what do we do?

The old way: inefficient

But I wanted something else, too...

The new way: just relax!

How can it help you?

Toner/OO e-mails Fewer calls, happier users

Statistics galore Rates of toner usage, printer uptime (,

lab usage) Free, open...

MIT License, runs on free OS + software

How can it help users?

New to campus? Help Freshmen find labs and printers

Up at odd hours? Perhaps you don't know when Lab X is

open Printing somewhere?

Make sure your printer is ready to rock Much more...

Utility is proportional to geography

Questions so far?

Demo

Individual Lab Maps

I know you're yearning to ask some questions...

Maintainability

What would you need to change?

Picture, locations, names Toner scripts Grinnell-specific stuff And of course, anything else you see fit!

What does the future hold?

Toner Prediction Lab Search Scripts in Perl/Python Modularize Grinnell-specific features “Installation” scripts Much, much more...

Any more questions?

Thanks for coming!

http://www.resnetsymposium.org/rspm/evaluation/

dylan.sather@gmail.com