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CRAVE MILESTONES

We define milestones for major tasks accomplished, and a single level of detail for each milestone.


M1: "Going Public"

  • Proposal put up on DUCS website
  • Project announcement on noticeboards
  • Seminar on the CRAVE project
  • Project Support Infrastructure setup begins:
    • Website/blogs
    • Mailing lists
    • Wiki
    • Issue tracking system


M2: "Ready to Go"

  • Teams formed
  • Project Support Infrastructure Training for all teams
  • Assignment of Individual Tasks to teams, typically research work


M3: H/W Configuration, Verification and Testing

  • Hardware map of lab prepared
    • What hardware is present?
    • What is needed?
    • What can each hardware be used for?
  • Allocation of hardware resources complete
  • Documented in Wiki
  • Seminar on H/W in lab and soon-to-be in Lab.


M4: Multimedia OS Installed

  • OS's selected
  • Machines prepared
  • Test installation complete
  • Explorations of mass rollout of OSes
  • Mass OS rollout
  • OS functionality reviewed
  • Documentation on Local OS practices
  • Seminar on O/S selection, installation, and operation


M5: Cluster Installation

  • Options explored
  • distcc rollout
  • distcc testing and evaluation
  • grid rollout
  • grid rollout and evaluation
  • testing of functionality
  • documentation regarding usage
  • seminar on clustering


M6: Transcoding

  • Select programs/utilities to install
  • Install selected programs
  • Write a uniform interface to convert between file formats easily and safely.
  • Recommend file formats for use in daily work.
  • Document all of this.
  • Seminar on file formats.


M7: Publication & Archival

  • Select programs/utilities to install
  • Install, configure and test those programs.
  • Document usage of these facilities
  • Seminar on Publication and Archival.


M8: Content Creation & Manipulation

Split into AUDIO,VISUAL,VIRTUAL and PRINT

  • Select programs/utilities to install
  • Install, configure and test those programs
  • Seminar and training on each tools


M9: Project Delivery

  • Publicity videos finished
  • All facilities tested, documented, and ready for use.


Note that while each layer depends on the layer below it, we can easily begin work on M3--M8 simultaneously.

The Lab should be in a working condition by middle of February 2007, and completely ready by May 2007.

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