Core Values

• Innovation
• Relaxed work environment
• Facilitating research/community
• Self-motivation/driven/directed
• Supportive work environment / sufficient equipment
• Working as a team/decision-making as a team
• "Hands off" management [What to do, not how to do it]
• Education/learning
• Open Source Software
• Sense of community/family
• Not for profit/A force of goodness
• Support the rest of DNR

In the next 4 years...

Pharos

• distributable
• facelift web interface
• documentation! (external interfaces at minimum)
• optimized
• more robust (more better testing)
• more tools for research
• more tools for community
• per user customization
  • favorites
  • customized homepage(iGoogle)
• lighthouse for mobile devices
• better visual appeal
• web 2.0
• 3D
• animations
• OOS Integration

Personnel

• Current
  • better communication (hours)
  • office hours
• Future
  • hire John (Systems Programmer I)
  • students
• better defined roles/responsibilities

Public Relations

• phorum
• feature cool new stuff
• Evangelize
  • in CC
  • @ TAMUCC
  • to various user groups
• Multi-lingual website(cindy?)
• Voiceinfo

Infrastructure

• Backups
• NAS
• UPS monitoring
• monitoring remote systems
• visualize network
• data collections devices
• get our ethernet upgraded
• failover for lighthouse

Other

• more collaboration
  • on campus
  • with partners
• organize website
• Jams box
• big screen & wiimote + google earth
• Lead the way in OOS data portal

Frustrations

• small student office
• IT Staff attendance/communication
• not knowing where shit is
• not enough documentation on common trouble shooting
• need more cross training
• website is unorganized
• not in ready state for emergency

Über Awesome Super-fun Happy Time [amazing]

• Viz Wall
• Parallel Systems
• Become the "Google of OOS"
• Voice Recognition