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DIARY: March 7, 2000 07:59 AM Tuesday; Rod Welch

Jon Bondy asks about price of SDS to experiment.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Simple Explanation of SDS, POIMS and Com Metrics Helped Customer
3...Getting a Copy of SDS to Evaluate
4...Ambassador of Change


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CONTACTS 
0201 - Computer Generalist                  510 658 3797
020101 - Mr. Richard Karpinski
020102 - dick@cfcl.com

SUBJECTS
Customer Requests for Information
Web Site Demo SDS

0504 -    ..
0505 - Summary/Objective
0506 -
050601 - Follow up ref SDS 26 0000, ref SDS 24 0000.
050602 -
050603 - Jon Bondy wants a demo version of SDS he can evaluate.  The
050604 - explanation yesterday seems to have been more helpful than the web
050605 - page.  Received a letter from Dick expressing appreciation for being
050606 - sent a copy of correspondence on this stuff.
050607 -
050608 - Sent ref DIT 1 0001 responding to Jon, explaining difficulty of
050609 - providing an evaluation set of SDS.
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0509 - Progress
0510 -
051001 -  ..
051002 - Simple Explanation of SDS, POIMS and Com Metrics Helped Customer
051003 -
051004 - Follow up ref SDS 26 3005.
051005 -
051006 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Jon Bondy reporting that the explanation
051007 - in the letter, ref DIP 2 0001, submitted yesterday helped him.  He
051008 - submitted my letter to friends and colleagues, who reported back that
051009 - this explanation helped them understand SDS.  They suggest putting the
051010 - explanation in the letter, ref DIP 2 0001, on the Communication
051011 - Metrics home page.
051012 -
051013 -      [On 000308 Tom Field suggests putting SDS schematic and the
051014 -      record on 940901 that explains data structure to PG&E and CDWR,
051015 -      ref SDS 27 5180]
051016 - ..
051017 - Jon does not indicate if he reviewed the typical day scenario on
051018 - using SDS, ref OF 2 0001, and whether that helped him, as it helped
051019 - Dick, per the record yesterday. ref SDS 26 1110
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051021 -
051022 -  ..
051023 - Getting a Copy of SDS to Evaluate
051024 -
051025 - Jon asks if SDS is for sale, and whether there is a demo capability he
051026 - can evaluate to see how it feels?
051027 -
051028 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 explaining need for training and support to
051029 - implement SDS through Com Metrics services.
051030 -
051031 - Should cite Tom Keesling's report on 961101 that the entire staff at
051032 - the Corps of Engineers did not understand SDS after a year of
051033 - explanations and demonstrations, until after it was being used for a
051034 - few months. ref SDS 10 8888
051035 -
051036 - Linked to record on 960913 entering the contract. ref SDS 9 7734
051037 -
051038 - Explained USACE plans on 961206 to purchase SDS. ref SDS 11 1204
051039 -
051040 - Commander disapproved on 961226. ref SDS 12 0549
051041 -
051042 - Explain Communication Metrics as the little tasks everyone knows they
051043 - are supposed to do, but never have time, from work on 921205.
051044 - ref SDS 3 2552
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SUBJECTS
Karpinski, Dick, 000218
Ambassadors for Change
Difficult to Explain SDS/POIMS
Experience with SDS Records Illustrates Intelligence
Difficult to Understand
SDS Explanation

0909 -
090901 -  ..
090902 - Ambassador of Change
090903 -
090904 - Follow up ref SDS 26 9862.
090905 -
0910 -
0911 -
0912 - 1120 letter from Dick Karpinski
0913 -
091301 - Received ref DRT 2 0001 from Dick responding to my letter yesterday,
091302 - ref DIP 4 0001 thanking him for telling people about SDS, and linking
091303 - to the record yesterday on his question by how to deliver a better SDS
091304 - program, and how to help people understand the benefits. ref SDS 26
091305 - 1968
091306 -
091307 - He suggests SDS might be a good as groupware for a distributed
091308 - volunteer community on the web. Kind of like a swiki web in Squeak
091309 - Smalltalk where lots of folks can edit the page themselves, but with
091310 - more structure. ref DRT 2 1462
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