Team+Meetings+2013

=December 13, 2013=

General Project News

 * Departmental Updates**

- ON HOLD - not sure the status. Sometime in the near future the separator wall between the two student cubes will be removed to give us a more open work space similar to the layout we had in Zimmer Hall. Make sure everything is tidy and easy for the move.

- Suri's last day is today, Krishna will be returning on Monday December 16th.

- UCIT will be purchasing a new project management/portfolio product called Team Dynamix to help track project tasks, costs, etc. Chris has requested that the UCSIM team be an early adopter or part of the pilot if possible to help us better track our billable hours and project milestones.

- In the meantime, Chris instituted a new time tracking form to make sure we're capturing all billable work per project.


 * Time Keeping**

- Missed punches: None this week!

- A reminder that you MUST take at least a 15 minute break whenever you work a shift longer than 5 hours.


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**

- Does anyone have any schedule changes or time off requests for next week? What about holiday plans?


 * UCSIM Website Updates**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shared files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.

- Next blog post order: Matt, Alex, Ian, Vinith

- Twitter winner this week: Matt! https://twitter.com/MatthausHighwtr/status/410884806864433152


 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

- Review of Unity Asset Server update process, how is it working so far?

- All Unity work should be done in a project that is backed up on the server, the project master list is located at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvsQn0_HYPzCdGEteW5NM3M2WFZaRzc2WEpoS0dQLUE&usp=drive_web#gid=0

- Both Chris and Matt can create new projects as needed

- Chris still needs to get Adobe suite for new machines. Jane asked if Corel products could be a substitute, Chris' inclination is no.. thoughts?

Current Funded Projects

 * POC-CENT Project**

- A modification to the IRB protocol has been submitted for approval. Fingers crossed, as soon as we receive approval, we will resume the Shock & Respiratory Distress Study.

- POC-CENT received a no-cost extension to the grant this year, so we should revisit/review that module to fix any issues or bugs before the next phase of the study.


 * Psychology Department - Mike Richardson - Drum Lab**

- Mike was very pleased with the prototype we were able to develop within about a week. For the next phase of the prototype, he'd like to see:

- Single player and Two player modes (split screen)

- An introductory calibration exercise (hands up, hands T-pose) both to help teach the user how to use the equipment/game and if possible to better calibrate the Kinect.

- Re-calibrate the colliders (or how collisions are tracked) to ensure the student can focus on trying to synchronize their activities more than focusing on the precision with which they are hitting the drum. I.e. any motion in the right direction of the drum should result in a success.

- Cartoony characters ok, would like a range of maybe 3 boys and 3 girls as choices. Chris thought the "Glitch" game might be an inspiration for the artwork.

- Weekly we should update the project file on the shared drive so Mike can play with the code directly since he's trying to learn Unity.


 * Childrens hospital VR Lab**

- Adam was able to negotiate a good price with DIGuy, so will be purchasing licenses that he would like us to host on our own server, since he expects to be hiring us for any customizations needed. More info to come soon.

- Status of each of the four stadiums

- Status of the combined "game*

- Status of the pathfinding work Vinith has been doing

Pending Projects

 * Athletics Department - Visualization of the new Nippert Stadium**

- Architect working on the project was hesitant to share the CAD models until the designs have been finalized, so our initial timeline of November - January has been postponed. Hopefully we'll get access to the finalized designs sometime in late December or early January.


 * College of Nursing - VR Diabetes and Obesity grant**

- We are starting to nail down the design details. The user would interact with a large TV screen and monitor, not sure yet whether we would use the Kinect/Leap or use traditional keyboard and mouse.

- Level 1: The user would initially begin by making food choices in a corner market (UDF/convenience mart/gas station) based on a particular budget. Once they have made their selections, then would receive "points" for how healthy or nutritious their food choices were, and receive additional educational information about making healthy food choices to prevent diabetes (avoid pop, low sugar/carbs, increase lean proteins, increase vegetables).

- Level 2: The budget has run out, and now they need to go to a food pantry and make choices from the available foods. Again, the scoring will be based on how healthy their choices are.

- Level 3: They are back at home and need to prepare a meal from the ingredients they selected. They will have several choices of both recipes and preparation techniques (frying vs oven roasting, for example). Scoring will be based on how healthy their food preparation and recipe selection choices are.

- Level 4: Now time to serve dinner, they will need to make choices/guesses about healthy portion sizes for adults and children. Scoring based on how accurate their portion size guesses are for both nutritional content and caloric intake.


 * AFRL Discovery Lab - Massively Online Open Research (MOOR) Community

- DARPA has committed to funding this project seedling from March - September 2014. If goals are met, next phase of funding would be for 2-3 year project.

- The goal is to develop an OpenSimulator virtual research campus hosting 1000 student researchers with SMEs from 5 partner institutions (academic and industry). UC will likely be one of the partner institutions.

- Chris will be participating in developing the operational and governance model, consulting on the grid architecture, and leading the in-world content development and community management teams.

- At this point, not sure others on UCSIM team will need to participate, but it might be worth Ian and Alex refreshing their memory developing some models in Opensim in case we are called upon to develop content for the project. (Think virtual conference center.)

- Chris meeting with Professional Practice staff next week to demo OpenSimulator and talk about placing students and interns from UC in the project.

Other? Questions
=December 6, 2013=

General Project News

 * Departmental Updates**

- We'll be changing the way the ucsim@uc.edu email distribution list will work, please forward to Chris which email address you would prefer work emails will be forwarded to by the end of the day.

- Sometime in the near future the separator wall between the two student cubes will be removed to give us a more open work space similar to the layout we had in Zimmer Hall. Make sure everything is tidy and easy for the move.

- Suri's last day is next Friday, Krishna will be returning on Monday December 16th.

- UCIT will be purchasing a new project management/portfolio product called Team Dynamix to help track project tasks, costs, etc. Chris has requested that the UCSIM team be an early adopter or part of the pilot if possible to help us better track our billable hours and project milestones.

- In the meantime, Chris will be revising our time tracking spreadsheets to make sure we're capturing all billable work per project.


 * Time Keeping**

- Missed punches:

None this week

- A reminder that you MUST take at least a 15 minute break whenever you work a shift longer than 5 hours.

- Make sure everyone is keeping time on their project time tracking spreadsheets to make billing easier. The importance of this cannot be overstated! Keep up with your spreadsheets!


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**

- Does anyone have any schedule changes or time off requests for next week? What about holiday plans?


 * UCSIM Website Updates**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shared files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.

- Next blog post order: Matt, Alex, Ian, Vinith

- Twitter winner this week: Ian!


 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

- Review of Unity Asset Server update process, how is it working so far?

- All Unity work should be done in a project that is backed up on the server, the project master list is located at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvsQn0_HYPzCdGEteW5NM3M2WFZaRzc2WEpoS0dQLUE&usp=drive_web#gid=0

- Both Chris and Matt can create new projects as needed

- Chris still needs to get Adobe suite for new machines. Jane asked if Corel products could be a substitute, Chris' inclination is no.. thoughts?

Current Funded Projects

 * POC-CENT Project**

- A modification to the IRB protocol has been submitted for approval. Fingers crossed, as soon as we receive approval, we will resume the Shock & Respiratory Distress Study.

- POC-CENT received a no-cost extension to the grant this year, so we should revisit/review that module to fix any issues or bugs before the next phase of the study.


 * Psychology Department - Mike Richardson - Drum Lab**

- Mike was very pleased with the prototype we were able to develop within about a week. For the next phase of the prototype, he'd like to see:

- Single player and Two player modes (split screen)

- An introductory calibration exercise (hands up, hands T-pose) both to help teach the user how to use the equipment/game and if possible to better calibrate the Kinect.

- Re-calibrate the colliders (or how collisions are tracked) to ensure the student can focus on trying to synchronize their activities more than focusing on the precision with which they are hitting the drum. I.e. any motion in the right direction of the drum should result in a success.

- Cartoony characters ok, would like a range of maybe 3 boys and 3 girls as choices. Chris thought the "Glitch" game might be an inspiration for the artwork.

- Weekly we should update the project file on the shared drive so Mike can play with the code directly since he's trying to learn Unity.


 * Childrens hospital VR Lab**

- Adam was able to negotiate a good price with DIGuy, so will be purchasing licenses that he would like us to host on our own server, since he expects to be hiring us for any customizations needed. More info to come soon.

- Status of each of the four stadiums

- Status of the combined "game*

- Status of the pathfinding work Vinith has been doing

Pending Projects

 * Athletics Department - Visualization of the new Nippert Stadium**

- Architect working on the project was hesitant to share the CAD models until the designs have been finalized, so our initial timeline of November - January has been postponed. Hopefully we'll get access to the finalized designs sometime in late December or early January.


 * College of Nursing - VR Diabetes and Obesity grant**

- We are starting to nail down the design details. The user would interact with a large TV screen and monitor, not sure yet whether we would use the Kinect/Leap or use traditional keyboard and mouse.

- Level 1: The user would initially begin by making food choices in a corner market (UDF/convenience mart/gas station) based on a particular budget. Once they have made their selections, then would receive "points" for how healthy or nutritious their food choices were, and receive additional educational information about making healthy food choices to prevent diabetes (avoid pop, low sugar/carbs, increase lean proteins, increase vegetables).

- Level 2: The budget has run out, and now they need to go to a food pantry and make choices from the available foods. Again, the scoring will be based on how healthy their choices are.

- Level 3: They are back at home and need to prepare a meal from the ingredients they selected. They will have several choices of both recipes and preparation techniques (frying vs oven roasting, for example). Scoring will be based on how healthy their food preparation and recipe selection choices are.

- Level 4: Now time to serve dinner, they will need to make choices/guesses about healthy portion sizes for adults and children. Scoring based on how accurate their portion size guesses are for both nutritional content and caloric intake.


 * AFRL Discovery Lab - Massively Online Open Research (MOOR) Community

- DARPA has committed to funding this project seedling from March - September 2014. If goals are met, next phase of funding would be for 2-3 year project.

- The goal is to develop an OpenSimulator virtual research campus hosting 1000 student researchers with SMEs from 5 partner institutions (academic and industry). UC will likely be one of the partner institutions.

- Chris will be participating in developing the operational and governance model, consulting on the grid architecture, and leading the in-world content development and community management teams.

- At this point, not sure others on UCSIM team will need to participate, but it might be worth Ian and Alex refreshing their memory developing some models in Opensim in case we are called upon to develop content for the project. (Think virtual conference center.)

- Chris meeting with Professional Practice staff next week to demo OpenSimulator and talk about placing students and interns from UC in the project.

Other? Questions
=October 11, 2013=

General Project News

 * Departmental Updates**

- We may be moving in the near future, so we should begin to "pre-pack" so we're ready to go when we receive notice of where we're moving. UNCONFIRMED but likely to be moving downstairs in Zimmer where exam grading used to be.

- On October 25th from 12 - 2PM in TUC Atrium, we will be participating in the UC Tech Exhibit a celebration of technology and innovation at UC by linking students to IT opportunities and resources on campus. We will be demoing OpenSimulator, Unity projects, Kinect, Leap Motion, and the Oculus Rift if it is in by then. Which students can be available on that date to help staff the table?

-Get a projector for demonstration.

- PowerPoint presentation for demonstration, to spark interest for students.Examples of projects with the omission of the Oculus Rift. Maybe create a handout for interested students to take away from the demo.


 * Time Keeping**

- Missed punches:

None this week

- A reminder that you MUST take at least a 15 minute break whenever you work a shift longer than 5 hours.

- Make sure everyone is keeping time on their project time tracking spreadsheets to make billing easier. The importance of this cannot be overstated! Keep up with your spreadsheets!


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**

- Does anyone have any schedule changes or time off requests for next week?


 * UCSIM Website Updates**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shared files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.

- Next blog post order: Suri, Vinith, Matt, Alex H., Ian

- Josette ran a compliance scan on our website, which found a great number of issues. Some of these are related to the theme itself, but some can be fixed on the website or are linking alt image tag related. Suri to work on resolving these issues using the Compliance Report document.

- Issues tracking spreadsheet at: [|https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgNP944oRq-AdDVGQlJkcFhEc19kcmlFNW1abmcyd3c#gid=0]

- Chris still needs to fix the slider on sub-pages issue and troubleshoot the cookie plugin incompatibility.


 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

-Order jibe 2.0 update

-License cost for Unity changed to $190 per seat instead of blanket cost, need four seats for unity assets server.

-Oculus Rift, computers,and leap have been delivered.

- Install latest Microsoft Office on all computers.

- Update the equipment sheet with list of computers that need licenses for the Adobe suite.

-Chris at some point needs to update OpenSim to version 07.6.

UC Opensim
- All machines should be updated with the newest Singularity viewer: @https://files.streamgrid.net/singularity/

UC Second Life

 * Second Life Campus**

- Chris needs to verify that the invoice was paid for the University of Cincinnati5 region (POC-CENT)

- Will renew University of Cincinnati campus, but NOT Sandbox region.

Unity3D

 * POC-CENT Project**

- POC-CENT has no cost extension on grant and wants to continue study.

- No updates, waiting for new student cohort to begin to continue Usability study protocol.
 * IRB Approved Study**

- Chris demoed the most recent version for BJ and Fred on Tuesday and they were very very pleased with the progress. BJ had some specific feedback but wanted to review the simulation again and send in email. We are holding on doing any additional development until the next phase of the POC-CENT grant funding is approved.
 * Competitive Benchmarking Tutorial**

-On hold
 * Campus Demo**


 * New Projects**

-College of Nursing grant proposal for diabetes Idea for simulating grocery shopping and cooking at home to practice behavior after learning health facts.

-College of Nursing mothers of abuse - no update

-Childrens hospital VR Lab Soccer field is top priority.

[|https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UVpG3DNRHH7qvwgNX9wX0XwJFcsVE0bDbMLvYWK8LCA/edit#slide=id.ge63e3542_017]

-DI Guy Demo with Football Field storyboard sketches

-Proposal for Athletic Department.

=October 4, 2013=

General Project News

 * Departmental Updates**

- We may be moving in the near future, so we should begin to "pre-pack" so we're ready to go when we receive notice of where we're moving. UNCONFIRMED but likely to be moving downstairs in Zimmer where exam grading used to be.

- On October 9th and the 25th from 12 - 2PM in TUC Atrium, we will be participating in the UC Tech Exhibit a celebration of technology and innovation at UC by linking students to IT opportunities and resources on campus. We will be demoing OpenSimulator, Unity projects, Kinect, Leap Motion, and the Oculus Rift if it is in by then. Which students can be available on that date to help staff the table?


 * Time Keeping**

- Missed punches:

None this week

- A reminder that you MUST take at least a 15 minute break whenever you work a shift longer than 5 hours.

- Make sure everyone is keeping time on their project time tracking spreadsheets to make billing easier. The importance of this cannot be overstated! Keep up with your spreadsheets!


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**

- Does anyone have any schedule changes or time off requests for next week?


 * UCSIM Website Updates**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shared files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.

- Next blog post order: Suri, Vinith, Matt, Alex H., Ian

- Josette ran a compliance scan on our website, which found a great number of issues. Some of these are related to the theme itself, but some can be fixed on the website or are linking alt image tag related. Suri to work on resolving these issues using the Compliance Report document.

- Issues tracking spreadsheet at: [|https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgNP944oRq-AdDVGQlJkcFhEc19kcmlFNW1abmcyd3c#gid=0]

- Chris still needs to fix the slider on sub-pages issue and troubleshoot the cookie plugin incompatibility.


 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

-Oculus Rift will be sent in October, estimated delivery 10/9.

UC Opensim
- All machines should be updated with the newest Singularity viewer: @https://files.streamgrid.net/singularity/

UC Second Life

 * Second Life Campus**

- Chris needs to verify that the invoice was paid for the University of Cincinnati5 region (POC-CENT)

- Will renew University of Cincinnati campus, but NOT Sandbox region.

Unity3D
- No updates, waiting for new student cohort to begin to continue Usability study protocol.
 * POC-CENT Project**
 * IRB Approved Study**

- Chris demoed the most recent version for BJ and Fred on Tuesday and they were very very pleased with the progress. BJ had some specific feedback but wanted to review the simulation again and send in email. We are holding on doing any additional development until the next phase of the POC-CENT grant funding is approved.
 * Competitive Benchmarking Tutorial**

-On hold
 * Campus Demo**


 * New Projects**

-College of Nursing grant proposal for diabetes Idea for simulating grocery shopping and cooking at home to practice behavior after learning health facts.

-College of Nursing mothers of abuse - no update

-Childrens hospital VR Lab Soccer field is top priority.

[|https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UVpG3DNRHH7qvwgNX9wX0XwJFcsVE0bDbMLvYWK8LCA/edit#slide=id.ge63e3542_017]

-DI Guy Demo with Football Field storyboard sketches

=September 27, 2013=

General Project News

 * Departmental Updates**

- We may be moving in the near future, so we should begin to "pre-pack" so we're ready to go when we receive notice of where we're moving.

- On October 25th from 12 - 2PM in TUC Atrium, we will be participating in the UC Tech Exhibit a celebration of technology and innovation at UC by linking students to IT opportunities and resources on campus. We will be demoing OpenSimulator, Unity projects, Kinect, Leap Motion, and the Oculus Rift if it is in by then. Which students can be available on that date to help staff the table?


 * Time Keeping**

- Missed punches:

Matt - 9/23 IN 9:58 OUT 15:25 IN 17:01 OUT 20:30

- A reminder that you MUST take at least a 15 minute break whenever you work a shift longer than 5 hours.

- Make sure everyone is keeping time on their project time tracking spreadsheets to make billing easier. The importance of this cannot be overstated! Keep up with your spreadsheets!


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**

- Does anyone have any schedule changes or time off requests for next week?


 * UCSIM Website Updates**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shared files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.

- Blog posted this week: Alex and Darrell []

- Blog post due this week: Suri []

- Next blog post order: Vinith, Matt, Alex H., Ian, Suri

- Josette ran a compliance scan on our website, which found a great number of issues. Some of these are related to the theme itself, but some can be fixed on the website or are linking alt image tag related. Suri to work on resolving these issues using the Compliance Report document.

- Issues tracking spreadsheet at: [|https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgNP944oRq-AdDVGQlJkcFhEc19kcmlFNW1abmcyd3c#gid=0]

- Something went wrong with the WordPress theme template we were using and Chris has been working to repair it this week. Most items have been fixed, but the slider is still appearing on individual pages where it should not be. This still needs to be resolved. Suri's work on fixing compliance errors has been on hold until the theme issues are fixed.


 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

-Oculus Rift will be sent in October.

UC Opensim
- All machines should be updated with the newest Singularity viewer: @https://files.streamgrid.net/singularity/

- Some items in the UC Bookstore have the wrong permissions. **Update**- Matt fixed it.

UC Second Life

 * Second Life Campus**

- Chris needs to verify that the invoice was paid for the University of Cincinnati5 region (POC-CENT)

- Will renew University of Cincinnati campus, but NOT Sandbox region.

Unity3D
- No updates, waiting for new student cohort to begin to continue Usability study protocol.
 * POC-CENT Project**
 * IRB Approved Study**

- No Updates
 * POCCENT Shock & Respiratory Distress Simulation**

- Waiting to hear back if College of Medicine funding came through. Pending.
 * Acute Renal Failure Simulation**

- Chris demoed the most recent version for BJ and Fred on Tuesday and they were very very pleased with the progress. BJ had some specific feedback but wanted to review the simulation again and send in email. We are holding on doing any additional development until the next phase of the POC-CENT grant funding is approved.
 * Competitive Benchmarking Tutorial**

-On hold
 * Campus Demo**


 * New Projects**

-College of Nursing grant proposal for diabetes Idea for simulating grocery shopping and cooking at home to practice behavior after learning health facts. -College of Nursing mothers of abuse

-Childrens hospital VR Lab Soccer field is top priority.

[|https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UVpG3DNRHH7qvwgNX9wX0XwJFcsVE0bDbMLvYWK8LCA/edit#slide=id.ge63e3542_017]

-DI Guy Demo with Football Field storyboard sketches

-Open Sim update campus

=September 13, 2013=

General Project News
UCIT Strategic Plan

Pay closer attention to time punches and adhering to your schedule.


 * New Projects**

-College of Nursing grant proposal for diabetes Idea for simulating grocery shopping and cooking at home to practice behavior after learning health facts. -College of Nursing mothers of abuse

-Childrens hospital VR Lab Soccer field is top priority.

[|https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UVpG3DNRHH7qvwgNX9wX0XwJFcsVE0bDbMLvYWK8LCA/edit#slide=id.ge63e3542_017]

-DI Guy Demo with Football Field storyboard sketches

-Open Sim update campus


 * Departmental Updates**


 * Time Keeping**

- Missed punches: None

- A reminder that you MUST take at least a 15 minute break whenever you work a shift longer than 5 hours.

- Make sure everyone is keeping time on their project time tracking spreadsheets to make billing easier. The importance of this cannot be overstated! Keep up with your spreadsheets!


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**


 * UCSIM Website Updates**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shared files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.

- Blog posted this week: Alex and Darrell []

- Blog post due this week: Vinith []

- Next blog post order: Suri, Matt, Krishna, Alex H., Ian, Vinith

- Josette ran a compliance scan on our website, which found a great number of issues. Some of these are related to the theme itself, but some can be fixed on the website or are linking alt image tag related. Suri to work on resolving these issues using the Compliance Report document.

- Issues tracking spreadsheet at: [|https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgNP944oRq-AdDVGQlJkcFhEc19kcmlFNW1abmcyd3c#gid=0]

- Something went wrong with the WordPress theme template we were using and Chris has been working to repair it this week. Most items have been fixed, but the slider is still appearing on individual pages where it should not be. This still needs to be resolved. Suri's work on fixing compliance errors has been on hold until the theme issues are fixed.


 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

-Oculus Rift will be sent in October.

UC Opensim
- All machines should be updated with the newest Singularity viewer: @https://files.streamgrid.net/singularity/

- Some items in the UC Bookstore have the wrong permissions. **Update**- Matt fixed it.

UC Second Life

 * Second Life Campus**

- Chris needs to verify that the invoice was paid for the University of Cincinnati5 region (POC-CENT)

- Will renew University of Cincinnati campus, but NOT Sandbox region.

Unity3D
- No updates, waiting for new student cohort to begin to continue Usability study protocol.
 * POC-CENT Project**
 * IRB Approved Study**

- No Updates
 * POCCENT Shock & Respiratory Distress Simulation**

- Waiting to hear back if College of Medicine funding came through. Pending.
 * Acute Renal Failure Simulation**

- Chris demoed the most recent version for BJ and Fred on Tuesday and they were very very pleased with the progress. BJ had some specific feedback but wanted to review the simulation again and send in email. We are holding on doing any additional development until the next phase of the POC-CENT grant funding is approved.
 * Competitive Benchmarking Tutorial**

-On hold
 * Campus Demo**

=August 30, 2013=

General Project News
It is Krishna's last day with the UCSim team.

Krishna and Matt have gotten access to UC's GITHub repository, and Matt Hartman created a UCSim organization for us.

Chris is in the process of documenting the transition move.

Alex and Ian have been invited to help with developing the IT@UC Plan marketing campaign with associate Anton Harfmann.


 * New Projects**

-College of Nursing grant proposal for diabetes

-College of Nursing mothers of abuse

-Childrens hospital VR Lab

-DI Guy Demo with Football Field storyboard sketches


 * Departmental Updates**


 * Time Keeping**

- Missed punches: None

- A reminder that you MUST take at least a 15 minute break whenever you work a shift longer than 5 hours.

- Make sure everyone is keeping time on their project time tracking spreadsheets to make billing easier. The importance of this cannot be overstated! Keep up with your spreadsheets!


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**


 * UCSIM Website Updates**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shared files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.

- Blog posted this week: Alex and Darrell []

- Blog post due this week: Vinith []

- Next blog post order: Suri, Matt, Krishna, Alex H., Ian, Vinith

- Josette ran a compliance scan on our website, which found a great number of issues. Some of these are related to the theme itself, but some can be fixed on the website or are linking alt image tag related. Suri to work on resolving these issues using the Compliance Report document.

- Issues tracking spreadsheet at: [|https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgNP944oRq-AdDVGQlJkcFhEc19kcmlFNW1abmcyd3c#gid=0]

- Something went wrong with the WordPress theme template we were using and Chris has been working to repair it this week. Most items have been fixed, but the slider is still appearing on individual pages where it should not be. This still needs to be resolved. Suri's work on fixing compliance errors has been on hold until the theme issues are fixed.


 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

-Oculus Rift will be sent in October.

-Possibly need storyboard material.

UC Opensim
- All machines should be updated with the newest Singularity viewer: @https://files.streamgrid.net/singularity/

- Some items in the UC Bookstore have the wrong permissions. **Update**- Matt fixed it.

UC Second Life

 * Second Life Campus**

- Chris needs to verify that the invoice was paid for the University of Cincinnati5 region (POC-CENT)

- Will renew University of Cincinnati campus, but NOT Sandbox region.

Unity3D
- No updates, waiting for new student cohort to begin to continue Usability study protocol.
 * POC-CENT Project**
 * IRB Approved Study**

- No Updates
 * POCCENT Shock & Respiratory Distress Simulation**

- Waiting to hear back if College of Medicine funding came through. Pending.
 * Acute Renal Failure Simulation**

- Chris demoed the most recent version for BJ and Fred on Tuesday and they were very very pleased with the progress. BJ had some specific feedback but wanted to review the simulation again and send in email. We are holding on doing any additional development until the next phase of the POC-CENT grant funding is approved.
 * Competitive Benchmarking Tutorial**


 * Campus Demo**

- Krishna added navigation. Changed CSS to autoformat dependent on screen resolution.

-Fix door icon so it isn't in the top section of the screen.

QUESTION: Do we need to upgrade to Jibe 2.0 for Unity 4.0?

- Alex: Update on converting campus to mobile?

- Matt & Krishna: Update on researching height map conversion?

- Alex D.: Update on Swift Hall model?

- Ian: Update on Zimmer Hall model?

- Alex H.: Update on Baldwin Hall?

- Darrell: Update on Steger Student Life Center?

=August 23, 2013=

General Project News
Today is Darrell Wilson and Alex Davis' last day with the UCSIM Team! We wish you many successes and a bright and happy future wherever you land - and keep in touch!


 * Departmental Updates**

- Ian and Alex H. created the cover for the IT@UC Strategic Communication Plan which was very well received. Great work guys!


 * Time Keeping**

- Missed punches:

08/22/2013 Davis Alexander Missing clock IN, derived time is16:11.

08/20/2013 Wilson Darrell Missing clock OUT, derived time is13:45.

08/20/2013 Wilson Darrell Missing clock OUT, derived time is14:36.

08/21/2013 Hand Alex Missing clock IN, derived time is12:29.

- A reminder that you MUST take at least a 15 minute break whenever you work a shift longer than 5 hours.

- Make sure everyone is keeping time on their project time tracking spreadsheets to make billing easier. The importance of this cannot be overstated! Keep up with your spreadsheets!


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**

- Ian and Alex H. are off work today.

- Checking everyone's Fall Semester schedule on the calendar, you should know your class scheduled by now, please update the calendar!


 * UCSIM Website Updates**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shared files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.

- Blog posted this week: Alex and Darrell []

- Blog post due this week: Vinith []

- Next blog post order: Suri, Matt, Krishna, Alex H., Ian, Vinith

- Josette ran a compliance scan on our website, which found a great number of issues. Some of these are related to the theme itself, but some can be fixed on the website or are linking alt image tag related. Suri to work on resolving these issues using the Compliance Report document.

- Issues tracking spreadsheet at: [|https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgNP944oRq-AdDVGQlJkcFhEc19kcmlFNW1abmcyd3c#gid=0]

- Something went wrong with the WordPress theme template we were using and Chris has been working to repair it this week. Most items have been fixed, but the slider is still appearing on individual pages where it should not be. This still needs to be resolved. Suri's work on fixing compliance errors has been on hold until the theme issues are fixed.


 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

- Purchase requests have been submitted, awaiting approval. - Google Doc link

- Hardware equipment list update (Matt)

[|https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvsQn0_HYPzCdEQ1SFk4UmRINXpHbXRWb2tuTGJPeXc#gid=0]

- Cleaning desktop and files update (Alex and Darrell)

UC Opensim
- All machines should be updated with the newest Singularity viewer: @https://files.streamgrid.net/singularity/

- Some items in the UC Bookstore have the wrong permissions.

UC Second Life

 * Second Life Campus**

- Chris needs to verify that the invoice was paid for the University of Cincinnati5 region (POC-CENT)

- Will renew University of Cincinnati campus, but NOT Sandbox region.

Unity3D
- No updates, waiting for new student cohort to begin to continue Usability study protocol.
 * POC-CENT Project**
 * IRB Approved Study**

- No Updates
 * POCCENT Shock & Respiratory Distress Simulation**

- Waiting to hear back if College of Medicine funding came through. Pending.
 * Acute Renal Failure Simulation**

- Chris demoed the most recent version for BJ and Fred on Tuesday and they were very very pleased with the progress. BJ had some specific feedback but wanted to review the simulation again and send in email. We are holding on doing any additional development until the next phase of the POC-CENT grant funding is approved.
 * Competitive Benchmarking Tutorial**


 * Campus Demo**

- This week the team created a conference meeting room scene and linked the scene to the University Pavillion building for an Outreach Committee meeting. The new scene seemed to work pretty well except for some network controller issues.

QUESTION: Do we need to upgrade to Jibe 2.0 for Unity 4.0?

- Alex: Update on converting campus to mobile?

- Matt & Krishna: Update on researching height map conversion?

- Alex D.: Update on Swift Hall model?

- Ian: Update on Zimmer Hall model?

- Alex H.: Update on Baldwin Hall?

- Darrell: Update on Steger Student Life Center?

=August 16, 2013=

General Project News

 * Departmental Updates**

- Welcome Jane Combs!

- Ian and Alex H. will be working with Chris and Emily Baute from the UCIT Public Information Office to design graphics for the IT @ UC Strategic Plan. Alex and Ian to give an update on their meeting from this morning.


 * Time Keeping**

- Missed punches:

Darrel - 8/12 - IN 7:41 - OUT 12:34 - IN 13:18 - OUT MISSING

- A reminder that you MUST take at least a 15 minute break whenever you work a shift longer than 5 hours.

- Make sure everyone is keeping time on their project time tracking spreadsheets to make billing easier. The importance of this cannot be overstated! Keep up with your spreadsheets!


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**


 * UCSIM Website Updates**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shared files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.

- Blog posted this week: Ian []

- Blog post due this week: Vinith []

- Next blog post order: Suri, Matt, Krishna, Alex H., Ian, Vinith

- Alex D. and Darrell: A final blog post before you go? What did you learn working at UCSIM? What were some of the highlights of your projects?

- Josette ran a compliance scan on our website, which found a great number of issues. Some of these are related to the theme itself, but some can be fixed on the website or are linking alt image tag related. Suri to work on resolving these issues using the Compliance Report document.

- Issues tracking spreadsheet at: [|https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgNP944oRq-AdDVGQlJkcFhEc19kcmlFNW1abmcyd3c#gid=0]

- Suri to give an update on progress.


 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

- Purchase requests have been submitted, awaiting approval. - Google Doc link

- Hardware equipment list update (Matt)

[|https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvsQn0_HYPzCdEQ1SFk4UmRINXpHbXRWb2tuTGJPeXc#gid=0]

- Cleaning desktop and files update (Alex and Darrell)

UC Opensim
- All machines should be updated with the newest Singularity viewer: @https://files.streamgrid.net/singularity/

- How did Singularity install go? Which machines won't run it?

UC Second Life

 * Second Life Campus**

- Chris needs to verify that the invoice was paid for the University of Cincinnati5 region (POC-CENT)

- Will renew University of Cincinnati campus, but NOT Sandbox region.

Unity3D
- No updates, waiting for new student cohort to begin to continue Usability study protocol.
 * POC-CENT Project**
 * IRB Approved Study**

- No Updates
 * POCCENT Shock & Respiratory Distress Simulation**

- Waiting to hear back if College of Medicine funding came through. Pending.
 * Acute Renal Failure Simulation**

- Upload newest version?
 * Competitive Benchmarking Tutorial**


 * Campus Demo**

- This week the team created a conference meeting room scene and linked the scene to the University Pavillion building for an Outreach Committee meeting. The new scene seemed to work pretty well except for some network controller issues.

QUESTION: Do we need to upgrade to Jibe 2.0 for Unity 4.0?

- Alex: Update on converting campus to mobile?

- Matt & Krishna: Update on researching height map conversion?

- Alex D.: Update on Swift Hall model?

- Ian: Update on Zimmer Hall model?

- Alex H.: Update on Baldwin Hall?

- Darrell: Update on Steger Student Life Center?

=August 9, 2013=

General Project News

 * Departmental Updates**

- Welcome Jane Combs!

- This week Chris met with various teams in UCIT to discuss moving some responsibilities for the UCSIM server to other teams and to do more "intentional interdependence" within the department.

- Josette Riep and her team do web development, including the App Lab, will schedule a meeting with Asif and Bjorg to talk about code reviews. Josette ran a compliance scan on our website (see below) and we discussed performing a security scan on our services as well. We will also need to be included in the Change Management system.

- Russ Langford's team is responsible for maintaining hardware and OSs for the department, including backups. We discussed moving responsibility for the physical UCSIM server to his team, and they would perform OS updates and run nightly backups for us that are stored to offsite tape.

- Matt Hartman's team is responsible for applications and database management. We talked about getting our team's code on GitHub, @http://git.uc.edu, Krishna and Matt should create accounts and Chris will send their info to Matt to have their licenses approved. Training videos on Lynda.com GitHub Essential Training.

- Also talked to Matt's team about the OpenSimulator grid, Ryan Fields can help with the MySQL database, AJ Bothe can help with grid administration and SmartFoxPro. AJ can also assist with moving the Second Life account creation form from UCFileSpace to a different server using Shibboleth.


 * New Student Training**

- All new students now have alarm codes and keys to the office. A reminder to NEVER share your alarm code or key with anyone else for any reason.


 * Time Keeping**

- Missed punches: Vinith - 8/6 - 9:03 IN - 15:00 OUT - 17:12 - IN Vinith - 8/8/ - 9:09 - IN - 15:11 - OUT - 17:19 - IN Matt - No hours for Monday, Wed, Thurs?

- A reminder that you MUST take at least a 15 minute break whenever you work a shift longer than 5 hours.

- Make sure everyone is keeping time on their project time tracking spreadsheets to make billing easier. The importance of this cannot be overstated! Keep up with your spreadsheets!


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**


 * UCSIM Website Updates**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shared files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.

- Blog post due this week: Ian []

- Next blog post order: Vinith, Suri, Matt, Krishna, Alex H.

- Alex D. and Darrell: A final blog post before you go? What did you learn working at UCSIM? What were some of the highlights of your projects?

- Josette ran a compliance scan on our website, which found a great number of issues. Some of these are related to the theme itself, but some can be fixed on the website or are linking alt image tag related. Suri to work on resolving these issues using the Compliance Report document.


 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

- Purchase requests have been submitted, awaiting approval. A Leap Motion is on order. - Google Doc link

- Hardware equipment list update (Matt)

- Cleaning desktop and files update (Alex and Darrell)

UC Opensim
- All machines should be updated with the newest Singularity viewer: @https://files.streamgrid.net/singularity/

- How did Singularity install go? Which machines won't run it?

UC Second Life

 * Second Life Campus**

- Chris needs to verify that the invoice was paid for the University of Cincinnati5 region (POC-CENT)

- Will renew University of Cincinnati campus, but NOT Sandbox region.

Unity3D
- No updates, waiting for new student cohort to begin to continue Usability study protocol.
 * POC-CENT Project**
 * IRB Approved Study**

- No Updates
 * POCCENT Shock & Respiratory Distress Simulation**

- Waiting to hear back if College of Medicine funding came through. Pending.
 * Acute Renal Failure Simulation**

- No Updates
 * Competitive Benchmarking Tutorial**


 * Campus Demo**

- Alex: Researched what would be required to make the campus demo mobile friend. Could section campus into multiple levels so the whole campus doesn't have to render at once, but the first step is to test our current on iOS device and see how it performs. On Android, there's no development license required. Everyone with Android will bring one next week for testing. Recommends removing JIBE for the mobile version. Chris will schedule a meeting with Asif at the Mobile App Lab to discuss iOS license stuff.

- Matt & Krishna: Researching height map conversion, trying to take GIS data and convert that to a greyscale height map for Unity. Too low resolution images won't work. They discovered the issue with the image quality settings, the default quality setting was the lowest, so they've adjusted that and are working to develop a tool within the editor to change quality setting to dynamically adjust the performance on their individual computer.

- Alex D.: Completed the Van Wormer dome. Will work on Swift Hall next.

- Ian: Completed the ERC model and texture this week. Working on Rhodes Hall, has completed the model and is almost done with the texture. Expected completion by Monday. Next building: Zimmer Hall

- Alex H.: Completed the fountain outside of University Pavillion. Complete the decorative trashcans and ashtray models. Started a model of a sculpture in front of Baldwin. Currently working on Baldwin Hall, finished the modeling, starting to work on the texturing. Expected completion on Wednesday or Thursday.

- Darrell: Completed TUC and University Pavillion. Working on Steger Student Life Center (though Maya keeps crashing). Expected completion on Tuesday. Will be working on Nippert Stadium, estimated completion before he leaves. Depending upon the progress on the height map terrain output, will need to create a bunch of primitives for the grass layout to use as a blueprint from Maya to Unity to clean up the edges.

- Suri: Working on the zoom in and out with the mouse wheel for when you teleport so the user can better adjust their view. Suri's work is almost done, may finish this evening.

- Vinith: Working on the camera panning at the edges of the teleport screen, has just been implemented, working out some tweaks.

=August 2, 2013=

General Project News

 * Student Workers - New Student Training**

- All new students now have alarm codes and keys to the office. A reminder to NEVER share your alarm code or key with anyone else for any reason.


 * Student Workers - Time Keeping**

- Missed punches:

- Make sure everyone is keeping time on their project time tracking spreadsheets to make billing easier. The importance of this cannot be overstated! Keep up with your spreadsheets!


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**


 * Student Workers - Draft Blog Posts**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shared files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.

- Blog post due this week: Alex H. - []

- Next blog post order: Ian, Vinith, Suri, Matt, Krishna

- Alex D. and Darrell: A final blog post before you go? What did you learn working at UCSIM? What were some of the highlights of your projects?


 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

- Purchase requests have been submitted, awaiting approval. A Leap Motion is on order. - Google Doc link

UC Opensim
- All machines should be updated with the newest Singularity viewer: @https://files.streamgrid.net/singularity/

UC Second Life

 * Second Life Campus**

- Chris needs to verify that the invoice was paid for the University of Cincinnati5 region (POC-CENT)

- Will renew University of Cincinnati campus, but NOT Sandbox region.

Unity3D
- No updates, waiting for new student cohort to begin to continue Usability study protocol.
 * POC-CENT Project**
 * IRB Approved Study**

- No Updates
 * POCCENT Shock & Respiratory Distress Simulation**

- Waiting to hear back if College of Medicine funding came through. Pending.
 * Acute Renal Failure Simulation**

- No Updates
 * Competitive Benchmarking Tutorial**


 * Campus Demo**

- Alex: Researched what would be required to make the campus demo mobile friend. Could section campus into multiple levels so the whole campus doesn't have to render at once, but the first step is to test our current on iOS device and see how it performs. On Android, there's no development license required. Everyone with Android will bring one next week for testing. Recommends removing JIBE for the mobile version. Chris will schedule a meeting with Asif at the Mobile App Lab to discuss iOS license stuff.

- Matt & Krishna: Researching height map conversion, trying to take GIS data and convert that to a greyscale height map for Unity. Too low resolution images won't work. They discovered the issue with the image quality settings, the default quality setting was the lowest, so they've adjusted that and are working to develop a tool within the editor to change quality setting to dynamically adjust the performance on their individual computer.

- Alex D.: Completed the Van Wormer dome. Will work on Swift Hall next.

- Ian: Completed the ERC model and texture this week. Working on Rhodes Hall, has completed the model and is almost done with the texture. Expected completion by Monday. Next building: Zimmer Hall

- Alex H.: Completed the fountain outside of University Pavillion. Complete the decorative trashcans and ashtray models. Started a model of a sculpture in front of Baldwin. Currently working on Baldwin Hall, finished the modeling, starting to work on the texturing. Expected completion on Wednesday or Thursday.

- Darrell: Completed TUC and University Pavillion. Working on Steger Student Life Center (though Maya keeps crashing). Expected completion on Tuesday. Will be working on Nippert Stadium, estimated completion before he leaves. Depending upon the progress on the height map terrain output, will need to create a bunch of primitives for the grass layout to use as a blueprint from Maya to Unity to clean up the edges.

- Suri: Working on the zoom in and out with the mouse wheel for when you teleport so the user can better adjust their view. Suri's work is almost done, may finish this evening.

- Vinith: Working on the camera panning at the edges of the teleport screen, has just been implemented, working out some tweaks.

=July 19, 2013=

General Project News

 * Student Workers - Welcome New Students**

- This week we welcomed four new students, Suri, Vinith, Alex, and Ian. Welcome to the team.


 * Student Workers - Time Keeping**

- Missed punches: Suri, 7/18

- Make sure everyone is keeping time on their project time tracking spreadsheets to make billing easier. The importance of this cannot be overstated! Keep up with your spreadsheets!


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**

- Krishna's new schedule... - Alex working until... - Darrell working until..? - Ayan has a co-op that runs from 5/20 - 8/9.

- Chris will be beginning work with the WPAFB Research Center Discovery lab in the coming weeks. Generally, Tuesdays will be devoted to this work and she will only be available via Skype/phone.


 * Student Workers - Draft Blog Posts**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shard files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.


 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

-

UC Opensim
- No updates this week
 * Opensim - Server**


 * Bugs & Patches**

- No Updates this eek


 * Opensim - Client/Viewer**

- No updates this week


 * Opensim - Region Updates**

- No updates this week

UC Second Life

 * Second Life Campus**

- Chris needs to verify that the invoice was paid for the University of Cincinnati5 region (POC-CENT)

Unity3D/JIBE
- Dr. Lenz contacted LeAnn Coberly about recruiting 4th year med students. Chris and Dr. Lenz will meet with Dr Coberly soon to demo the simulation and discuss sending out the recruitment email.
 * POC-CENT Project**
 * IRB Approved Study**


 * POCCENT Shock & Respiratory Distress Simulation Conversion**


 * Acute Renal Failure Simulation **


 * Competitive Benchmarking Tutorial **

=May 24, 2013=

General Project News

 * Student Workers - Time Keeping**

- Missed punches: WOW! NO MISSED PUNCHES! :)

- Make sure everyone is keeping time on their project time tracking spreadsheets to make billing easier. The importance of this cannot be overstated! Keep up with your spreadsheets!


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**

- Krishna's new schedule... - Alex student status? - Darrell working until..? - Ayan has a co-op that runs from 5/20 - 8/9.

- Chris will be beginning work with the WPAFB Research Center Discovery lab in the coming weeks. Generally, Tuesdays will be devoted to this work and she will only be available via Skype/phone.


 * Student Worker Positions**

- Chris sent resumes for interviews schedule from 1 to 5 PM on Tuesday 5/28.

- Review candidates and interview process.

- Interview Do's and Don'ts


 * Don't ask any questions about age, race, gender, sexuality, marital status, religion, national origin, or accent


 * It IS ok to ask a candidate how to pronounce their name if you aren't sure. It IS ok to ask a candidate to speak more slowly if you are having difficulty understanding them. It is NOT ok to ask where they are from, or to comment on their accent or name in any other way.


 * Stick to the approved question list, be careful during the "small talk" part of the interview, when you're just chatting and trying to put the applicant at ease is when you're most likely to touch on an inappropriate topic. Remember, if it isn't about the job or job qualifications, it's not a subject to approach in the interview!


 * Sometimes candidates themselves offer personal information that you wouldn't have asked, that's ok, just don't follow up on it with more questions.


 * Be positive about our department, our unit, our university, and our team. You don't have to lie or say something you don't believe, but an interview is not an appropriate place to air your complaints or dissatisfaction with aspects of your job. If you don't have something positive to say then it's better to not say anything at all.


 * Student Workers - Draft Blog Posts**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Darrell .. Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shard files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.


 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

- Chris has gotten approval to have some posters printed for decorating the office, primarily focusing on Infographics related to technology and education. More to come but if anyone has ideas or suggestions, let Chris know.

UC Opensim
- No updates this week
 * Opensim - Server**


 * Bugs & Patches**

- No Updates this eek


 * Opensim - Client/Viewer**

- No updates this week


 * Opensim - Region Updates**

- No updates this week

UC Second Life

 * Second Life Campus**

- Chris needs to verify that the invoice was paid for the University of Cincinnati5 region (POC-CENT)

Unity3D/JIBE
- Dr. Lenz contacted LeAnn Coberly about recruiting 4th year med students. Chris and Dr. Lenz will meet with Dr Coberly soon to demo the simulation and discuss sending out the recruitment email.
 * POC-CENT Project**
 * IRB Approved Study**


 * POCCENT Shock & Respiratory Distress Simulation Conversion**

- No update, waiting to do the usability study.

- Grant funding has been sought to do this work. We should hear back by July 1.
 * Acute Renal Failure Simulation **

- Chris wrote the first draft of the dialogue script..
 * Competitive Benchmarking Tutorial **

=April 12, 2013=

General Project News

 * Student Workers - Time Keeping**

- Missed punches: Ayan & Matt

- Make sure everyone is keeping time on their project time tracking spreadsheets to make billing easier.


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**

- Krishna's last day will be April 27th, he's gotten an assistantship in his department. - Alex is likely to be working here through the summer. - Darrell will be graduating at the end of this semester. Chris and Darrell will talk about his schedule after the meeting. - Ayan has a co-op that runs from 5/20 - 8/9.


 * Student Worker Positions**

- Job ads for the programmer and modeler positions will hopefully be posted last week. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J8x_dyNIonGdAhYDfbDG3IbbpMNzQIjxJ4Ukm2rGcwg/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kLqHKh8xQTHLB1RIVF7ClcmzBnFx_HX4R0aMwEfu1a4/edit

- Chris is working on a flyer to post around campus.


 * Student Workers - Draft Blog Posts**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Darrell due on 4/5, Ayan due on 4/12.. Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shard files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.


 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

- Chris has gotten approval to have some posters printed for decorating the office, primarily focusing on Infographics related to technology and education. More to come but if anyone has ideas or suggestions, let Chris know.

UC Opensim
- Opensim system was upgraded to version 0.7.5 See release notes at: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/0.7.5_Release
 * Opensim - Server**

- All services were restored except for search, which is not working properly. Chris is still investigating that issue.

- We had another small griefing attack on Wednesday, 4/10/13 by a known griefer, all objects were deleted from the console by UUID and the issue was resolved. Chris contacted the hypergrid host locations where the griefer orginated to let them know the griefer was using their grid as a base of attack.


 * Bugs & Patches**

- Chris sent an email to Don requesting information about legal review of the Opensim code contribution agreement to begin the review process now in case we have patches ee want to submit back to Opensim core down the road. We are waiting on a reply.


 * Opensim - Client/Viewer**

- No updates this week


 * Opensim - Region Updates**

- No updates this week


 * Opensim - Wright Patterson Research Center**

- Lydia Divine from the WPAFB Research Center will be testing an airplane simulation on our opensim grid.

UC Second Life

 * Second Life Campus**

- Amy Abafo from Clermont College has reserved Sunnyside Hall classroom from March 26 - April 24th. Need to ensure the classroom is cleaned up and ready for her use. Chris will follow with her.

- The main UC Campus region in Second Life is set to expire in April of 2013, but Chris doesn't know if that's beginning or end of April, and we don't know if we're going to renew the region or not. That decision is pending.

- Chris needs to verify that the invoice was paid for the University of Cincinnati5 region (POC-CENT)

Unity3D/JIBE
- Dr. Lenz contacted LeAnn Coberly about recruiting 4th year med students. Chris and Dr. Lenz will meet with Dr Coberly soon to demo the simulation and discuss sending out the recruitment email.
 * POC-CENT Project**
 * IRB Approved Study**


 * POCCENT Shock & Respiratory Distress Simulation Conversion**

- The version 1.2.0 of the simulation has been completed, barring any critical errors, this is the version that we will use for the Usability Study.

- Krishna will investigate screen capture software for the study.

- All reviewed the case scenario sent by Dr. Luke
 * Acute Renal Failure Simulation **

- Chris in the process of conceptualizing the case scenario for a rough script.

- Alex has worked out a rough storyboard draft, the script still needs to be developed.
 * Competitive Benchmarking Tutorial **

- Next up is developing a list of assets needed, roughly divided work:

Ayan: Announcer NPC and three jockeys Darrell: Racetrack and hurdles Alex: Horses and character model animations

- Discussed the need to keep the artwork and design motif appropriate for business persons, not too childish or cartoony.

=March 29, 2013=

General Project News

 * Student Workers - Time Keeping**

- Missed punches: Ayan & Matt

- Make sure everyone is keeping time on their project time tracking spreadsheets to make billing easier.


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**

- No updates this week


 * Student Workers - Draft Blog Posts**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Darrell due on 4/5, Ayan due on 4/12.. Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shard files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.


 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

- Chris has gotten approval to have some posters printed for decorating the office, primarily focusing on Infographics related to technology and education. More to come but if anyone has ideas or suggestions, let Chris know.

UC Opensim
- Opensim system was upgraded to version 0.7.5 See release notes at: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/0.7.5_Release
 * Opensim - Server**

- All services were restored except for search, which is not working properly. Chris is still investigating that issue.

- We had a small griefing attack by a known griefer, all objects were deleted from the console by UUID and the issue was resolved. Chris contacted the hypergrid host locations where the griefer orginated to let them know the griefer was using their grid as a base of attack.


 * Bugs & Patches**

- Chris sent an email to Don requesting information about legal review of the Opensim code contribution agreement to begin the review process now in case we have patches ee want to submit back to Opensim core down the road. We are waiting on a reply.


 * Opensim - Client/Viewer**

- No updates this week


 * Opensim - Region Updates**

- No updates this week


 * Opensim - Wright Patterson Research Center**

- Lydia Divine from the WPAFB Research Center will be testing an airplane simulation on our opensim grid.

UC Second Life

 * Second Life Campus**

- Amy Abafo from Clermont College has reserved Sunnyside Hall classroom from March 26 - April 24th. Need to ensure the classroom is cleaned up and ready for her use.

- The main UC Campus region in Second Life is set to expire in April of 2013, but Chris doesn't know if that's beginning or end of April, and we don't know if we're going to renew the region or not. That decision is pending.

Unity3D/JIBE
- Dr. Lenz received approval for the IRB protocol, so now we're just waiting for the conversion of the simulation from Second Life to Unity to be completed in order to start the study.
 * POC-CENT Project**
 * IRB Approved Study**


 * POCCENT Simulation Conversion**

- Chris created a documentation page at: http://ucsim.uc.edu/blog/unity/poc-cent-medical-simulation-system/ Students will be sent this link first, and then can start the simulation after reading the instructions.

- Chris convinced BJ and Dr Lenz that we should NOT create a training simulation until after we finish the usability study, that way we can use the data from the study to potentially improve the simulation itself, and THEN decide if we feel a training scenario is needed.

- Chris installed a security certificate on the UCSIM server, so we can send users to an https:// link for the simulation so their credentials are not sent in plain text. The simulation runs fine with the https link.

- We are 98% done with the simulation. Just need to make some tweaks to the clock, patient model, CPR animations, and a few other changes here and there. The goal is to be FINISHED before our next demo on Wednesday 4/3.

- The latest version of the simulation is not sending the email confirmation. Chris thinks Krishna changed the hardcoded URL pointing to the getScore.php script and just forgot to tell us what the path should be. Matt will follow up with Krishna about that.

=March 1, 2013=

General Project News

 * Student Workers - Time Keeping**

- Missed punches: Matt & Krishna

- Make sure everyone is keeping time on their project time tracking spreadsheets to make billing easier.


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**

Having schedule flexibility is a privilege, not a right. Please be sure to document your schedule changes as requested after they have been approved. ALL schedule variations must be documented on the team calendar after receiving approval in email for time off or a schedule change. This is not happening consistently, please be sure to document your changes.

- Schedule flexibility has gotten a little out of hand, need to conform to published schedules unless you've communicated a schedule change in advance and gotten approval.

- Spring Break plans?


 * Student Workers - Draft Blog Posts**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Alex's next draft is due 3/1, Darrell due on 3/8, Ayan due on 3/15.. Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shard files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.


 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

- Chris has gotten approval to have some posters printed for decorating the office, primarily focusing on Infographics related to technology and education. More to come but if anyone has ideas or suggestions, let Chris know.

- Susan McCauley submitted office supply order, should be receiving soon.

UC Opensim
- New upgrade version was announced this week, version 0.7.5 See release notes at: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/0.7.5_Release
 * Opensim - Server**

- Chris plans to do the upgrade over spring break (March 18th)


 * Bugs & Patches**

- Chris sent an email to Don requesting information about legal review of the Opensim code contribution agreement to begin the review process now in case we have patches ee want to submit back to Opensim core down the road. We are waiting on a reply.


 * Opensim - Client/Viewer**

- No updates this week


 * Opensim - Region Updates**

- No updates this week

UC Second Life

 * Second Life Campus**

- Amy Abafo from Clermont College has reserved Sunnyside Hall classroom from March 26 - April 24th. Need to ensure the classroom is cleaned up and ready for her use.

- Dr. Lenz submitted the IBR protocol, we are waiting for approval to begin the user testing. Several items still need to be completed to flesh out the process for performing the tests.
 * POC-CENT Project**
 * IRB Approved Study**

- Waiting on Dr. Lenz to provide the final email address where survey results will be sent

Unity3D/JIBE

 * POCCENT Simulation Conversion**

- Chris received permission from Unity Technical Support to move 3.5 Pro license from bugged machine to new machine. Matt will do the upgrade.

- Krishna to give update on email script progress

- Darrell to give update on modeling progress

- Alex to give update on animations and patient monitor progress.

- Matt to give update on scripting progress.

- Next presentation date is next Thursday March 7, 2013.

=January 11, 2013=

General Project News

 * Student Workers - Time Keeping**

- Make sure everyone is keeping time on their project time tracking spreadsheets to make billing easier.

- Please double check the calendar to make sure your schedule for this semester is up to date.


 * Student Workers - Graduation**

- Darrell is scheduled to graduate in June 2013. (Congrats Darrell!) Chris will likely be posting the position soon so we can have some overlap to train a new replacement.

- Alex will still be taking classes in the 2013-14 school year.

- Matt will still be taking class in the 2013-14 school year.

- Ayan will be graduating in 2015, so she will still be taking 2013-14 school year.


 * Schedules, Time Off Requests, Etc**

Having schedule flexibility is a privilege, not a right. Please be sure to document your schedule changes as requested after they have been approved.

ALL schedule variations must be documented on the team calendar after receiving approval in email for time off or a schedule change. This is not happening consistently, please be sure to document your changes.


 * Student Workers - Draft Blog Posts**

Blog Post Tips: Try to write from the **third person perspective** (there should be little use of the word "I" in your posts). Instead of "I created a flower by doing x, y, z" you should write ""To create a flower, do x, y, z." Also, whenever possible it is best to upload the images directly to the server rather than linking to URLs since images hosted by others could disappear in the future, leaving us with a lot of broken images.

- Alex's next draft is due 1/18, Darrell due on 1/25, Ayan due on 2/1.. Drafts should first be posted to a Google Doc in shard files > Documents > UCSIM Blog Post Drafts and Chris will edit and review there before posting to the blog.

- Chris is waiting on an asset tag from the business office for the iPad. Will follow up with the business office.
 * Office Supplies, Software, Hardware**

- Chris has gotten approval to have some posters printed for decorating the office, primarily focusing on Infographics related to technology and education. More to come but if anyone has ideas or suggestions, let Chris know.

- Susan McCauley will be working in 410 Zimmer Hall two days per week. Chris gave her a brief tour of 406 and we will be getting together an office supply order. Items needed include:

- Legal Pads - Pens and Pencils - Trash Bags - Hand sanitizer - Paper Towels - Printer Cartridges (check model numbers) - Thumb drive (USB)

UC Opensim
- Latest Release Candidate was announced this week, version 0.7.5 RC1 See release notes at: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/0.7.5_Release
 * Opensim - Server**

Chris will install on the staff regions for testing next week.

- Opensim project wiki page for documenting bugs and patches: http://ucopensim.wikispaces.com/Patches+%26+Bugs
 * Bugs & Patches**

- Krishna and Matt to give update on their work with the osForceAttachTemp functions

- Chris sent an email to Don requesting information about legal review of the Opensim code contribution agreement to begin the review process now in case we have patches ee want to submit back to Opensim core down the road. We are waiting on a reply.

- Krishna made additions to the viewer testing routine doc, located at: http://ucopensim.wikispaces.com/Viewer+Testing
 * Opensim - Client/Viewer**

- Everyone should make sure they are running the last version of Imprudence (Windows only) which is 1.4.0 beta 2, available at: http://wiki.kokuaviewer.org/wiki/Downloads This version has a modified version of Media on a Prim that the Oak Hills SD team will be using, so we need to be able to support it.


 * Opensim - Region Updates**

- No updates this week


 * Opensim - Oak Hills School District**

- Waiting for update from Tracy. All project goals completed except for continuing work on the osForceAttachTemp functions.

UC Second Life

 * Second Life Campus**

- Chris and Alex met with Amy Abafo on January 11th to talk about Clermont College having a presence in Second Life. She will be conducting a test period using the Sunnyside Hall classroom while seeking funding for a dedicated space for the Learning Center at Clermont.

- Dr. Lenz submitted the IBR protocol, we are waiting for approval to begin the user testing. Several items still need to be completed to flesh out the process for performing the tests.
 * POC-CENT Project**
 * IRB Approved Study**

- Waiting on Dr. Lenz to provide the final email address where survey results will be sent


 * Internal User Study**

- Jennifer has sent updates and feedback from her testing experience. Chris to review and provide guidance on any needed changes next week.


 * Presentation to University of Pittsburg**

- Chris and Fred Beyette drove to Pittsburg on Monday 12/3 to present our simulation to the Critical Care Unit team at U of Pittsburg. The demo included the completed simulation in Second Life as well as our progress on converting the simulation to Unity. The presentation went very well and the next step is for the team leads to iron out funding details. Next meeting is December 17th with the UC POC-CENT team. See Unity section for more info re: conversion to Unity.


 * HUD Documentation & Updates**

- Matt to give an update on documenting the HUD

Main Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xd4epeiD2uSxE3_ZQZ8doM807epprt979YrN0i192R0/edit?pli=1

- No updates this week, the IU folks are currently working on their part of the build.
 * Collaboration with Indiana University**

Unity3D/JIBE
- We are in the process of evaluating a new 3D data visualization tool called "Datascape" that uses Unity3D backend technology. See http://www.daden.co.uk/solutions/datascape/, can download free Community Edition to see examples and up to 2000 data points.
 * Datascape Unity Based Tool**

- Krishna to update if any progress with Dr. Raj K Bhatnagar.

- Demo video at http://www.youtube.com/user/dadenmedia?feature=results_main


 * UC Campus Demo**

- The latest iteration of the campus demo is at: []

- Chris spoke with Daren and Jason in ECSS to get a list of classrooms that might best be used as models for the campus building interiors. We'd like to model the rooms with the "standard" set of electronic classroom equipment, and possibly show multiple layout types.

- Ideal classrooms might include: 427 ERC, 127 McMicken (old fashioned lecture hall), 450 Lindner Center, Zimmer Auditorium (newest equipment, large lecture hall style), 301 Braunstein (has newest Spectrum workstation furniture), 525 Old Chem (another large lecture hall style room), 60 W. Charleton (formerly Sander Hall) (has some of the latest touch panels).


 * Unity Development Stress Test**

What began as a one week stress test to gauge our ability to create simulations in Unity, using the existing POCCENT simulation in Second Life as an example, ultimately led to the POCCENT team deciding the entire simulation should be converted.

The stress test was successful in terms of helping us understand what areas of simulation creation we have a good handle on and which areas need more work.


 * POCCENT Simulation Conversion**

- Week 3 progress report from team.

- Next presentation date is December 17, 2012.