1. Mapping Technology to Geography Dylan J. Sather Grinnell College

2. I'm new to this... So please, be critical!

3. Even if the map doesn't fit in your environment...

4. Grinnell College ~1600 students Middle of Iowa Liberal Arts school 70-100 student staff at any given time ~25 student Helpdesk staff Around 18 public labs, 20 public printers

5. Who are we, and what do we do?

6. The old way: inefficient

7. But I wanted something else, too...

8. The new way: just relax!

9. How can it help you? Toner/OO e-mails  Fewer calls, happier users Statistics galore  Rates of toner usage, printer uptime (, lab usage) Free, open...  MIT License, runs on free OS + software

10. How can it help users? New to campus?  Help Freshmen find labs and printers Up at odd hours?  Perhaps you don't know when Lab X is open Printing somewhere?  Make sure your printer is ready to rock Much more...

11. Utility is proportional to geography

12. Questions so far?

13. Demo

14. Individual Lab Maps

16. I know you're yearning to ask some questions...

17. Maintainability

19. What would you need to change? Picture, locations, names Toner scripts Grinnell-specific stuff And of course, anything else you see fit!

20. What does the future hold? Toner Prediction Lab Search Scripts in Perl/Python Modularize Grinnell-specific features “Installation” scripts Much, much more...

21. Any more questions? Thanks for coming! http://www.resnetsymposium.org/rspm/evaluation/ dylan.sather@gmail.com