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DIARY: October 18, 1998 06:10 AM Sunday; Rod Welch

Developed HTML format for Gensler Meeting Notes; prepared Moscone notes.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Issues for Kwan Henmi Consideration...


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Meeting Note Procedures
HTML Format Meeting Notes

0605 -    ..
0606 - Summary/Objective
0607 -
060701 - Follow up ref SDS 12 0000, ref SDS 11 0000.
060702 - ..
060703 - Decided to create an HTML format for Gensler's project meeting
060704 - notes form so it can be integrated into SDS, since Gensler advised at
060705 - the structural meeting on 981001 that this format is a requirement
060706 - based on the JV project manual. ref SDS 2 3776
060707 -
060708 -       [On 981019 submitted first notes using this system to Ivan for
060709 -       review and comment. ref SDS 13 0000]
060710 -
060711 - Used the notes for the Electrical meeting on 981014 prepared by Ivan,
060712 - ref DIP 3 7788, to create an HTML format for viewing Gensler's project
060713 - meeting notes format on a web browser.
060714 - ..
060715 - Issues for Kwan Henmi Consideration...
060716 - 
060717 -          [On 981020 reviewed these issues with Ivan. ref SDS 14 4200]
060718 -
060719 -    1.  The HTML format gives a good appearance on a web browser.  The
060720 -        alignment between discussion and corresponding action items
060721 -        seems to be perfect.
060722 -
060723 -        This gives the KH team access to information on the Internet,
060724 -        as discussed at the team meeting on 981016.
060725 -
060726 -        On-line access reduces the time and cost to distrubute the
060727 -        record to consltants, because it is not necessary to print
060728 -        things and put them in the mail.
060729 -
060730 -        Welch can make the distrubition, upon notice by Ivan that the
060731 -        notes are approved for distribution.
060732 -
060733 -    2.  We can embed links between reports and with SDS and other
060734 -        records.  I have created a few that illustrate the method.
060735 -
060736 -        This gives the KH team access to chronology and alignment with
060737 -        requirements and commitments.
060738 -
060739 -        At this stage, however, at best, we have Communication Metrics
060740 -        "light" because the record is not segmented by subject in SDS.
060741 -
060742 -        Only the record on 980929, 981001 and 981006 have been entered
060743 -        in SDS for reasons discussed at the team meeting on 981016, and
060744 -        as submitted to Denis on 981014. ref SDS 3 3240
060745 -
060746 -        We are set up to accomplish this step when time permits.
060747 -        ..
060748 -    3.  When the HTML Meeting Notes report is printed, there is
060749 -        slight mis-alignment between discussion lines and the action
060750 -        items.
060751 -
060752 -           [On 981021, did not experience alignment problem. ref SDS 16
060753 -           9280]
060754 -
060755 -        The report is easy to print from a web browser, but it does not
060756 -        provide the same sharpness as the report produced in MS Word.
060757 -
060758 -    4.  Meeting Number
060759 -
060760 -        This needs to be asisgned somehow.
060761 -        ..
060762 -    5.  Editing by Ivan and others.
060763 -
060764 -        We should be able to give the original file to Ivan and to
060765 -        other KH staff for editing their areas of responsibility.  In
060766 -        theory, it should only take a few minutes to provide additions
060767 -        and corrections, prior to submission to consultants.
060768 -
060769 -        At this time, the editing tools in MS Word and Front Page
060770 -        Editor, which is a supped up HTML editor, do not offer a very
060771 -        easy solution for novices to accomplish this editing task.
060772 -
060773 -        The result is that KH staff need to mark up a printed set, or
060774 -        provide email comments by para number, for Welch to edit.
060775 -
060776 -    6.  The 1st page footer on the standard MS Word form does not work
060777 -        well in HTML, or at least I have not figured out how to
060778 -        accomplish it, with the result that the contents of the footer
060779 -        that identifies who prepared the document and the date of
060780 -        issue appear on the last page, instead of the first page.
060781 -
060782 -        Of course on-line, this is a moot question, since pages per se
060783 -        are irrelevant.  Hopefully, there will be a transition from
060784 -        printed documents to electronic media, so that people are less
060785 -        innundated by documents, as noted by Ivan at the team meeting
060786 -        on 981016.
060787 -        ..
060788 -    7.  Intially, I have used Ivan's email address for the reply
060789 -        address in the notes, and used the "Gensler/Willis...,
060790 -        letterhead string the return address link.
060791 -
060792 -        If he prefers, we designate Welch as the "web master" for the
060793 -        default addressee of comments on the notes.
060794 -
060795 -            [On 981020 Robert could not use the return address link,
060796 -            because his web browser would not open an email window...
060797 -            ref SDS 15 3280]
060798 -
060799 -
060800 -
060801 -
0609 -

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Mechanical Meeting, 981014

0804 -   ..
080401 - Follow up ref SDS 5 0000.
080402 -
080403 - Prepared ref DIT 1 7788 using handwritten notes for mechanical meeting
080404 - on 981014.
080405 -
080406 -    [On 981021 received and entered Ivan's edits.  Created new file
080407 -    dated 981021. ref SDS 16 5852]
080408 -
080409 -
080410 -
0805 -

SUBJECTS
Structural Meeting, 981015

1004 -   ..
100401 - Follow up ref SDS 5 0000.
100402 -
100403 - Used new HTML format created above. ref SDS 0 6046 to prepare notes
100404 - for structural meeting on 981015, ref SDS 8 0000, to prepare notes in
100405 - ref DIT 2 7788.
100406 - ..
100407 - Clonia advises that structural drawings for the elevator pit on
100408 - elevators 5 and 6 are not on the critical path. ref DIT 2 2548
100409 -
100410 -    Linked this to the discussion of the schedule on 980929, since it
100411 -    concerns project management. ref SDS 1 6804
100412 -
100413 -       [On 981019 issued to Project Office. ref SDS 13 4320]
100414 -
100415 -
100416 -
100417 -
1005 -

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Civil Coordination Meeting on 981015

1204 -   ..
120401 - Follow up ref SDS 9 0000.
120402 -
120403 - Used new HTML format to prepare ref DIT 3 0000 that uses handwritten
120404 - notes of civil meeting on 981015 reported at ref SDS 9 0000.
120405 -
120406 - AGS reports it made the change in elevations for the change reported
120407 - on 981001. ref SDS 2 3887
120408 -
120409 -
120410 -
120411 -
1205 -