Weekly review for the week ending 21th of Feb 2010

Last week I said I would:

1. Present about the Open Client and its buiness potential to the Senior Leadership Team (done and got very good reaction one senior manager converted their laptop to Linux already and several more commitments to switch)
   
2. Continue discussions with the local management team about my responsibilities (not done due to people being off work for the mid-term)
   
3. Prepare a report for the Sametime Operations meeting about products updating to the latest programming APIs (done - an updated version will be a regular feature on the bi-weekly ops meeting fom now on)
   
4. Build new SUT kit for Ubuntu users within IBM to bring them up to the CF1 code level (almost done - one more patch to apply)
   
5. GTD Tool selection project
   • This week I will continue using Toodledo for task tracking because I spent most of last  week learning the technical part of how it works and I need more time to fully asses its usefulness (done - becoming more proficient, but still not totally happy with the calendar integration)
     
   • I will install the IBM GTD template and learn its features with a view to using it for real the following week (installed and read about features, but changed my mind about using it - will blog about why not)
     
6. Micro-blogging on multiple platforms
   
   • Get resolution to problem where Wildfire won't update PingFM (still not working for me :-()
     
   • Renew my attempt to convince both Widlfire and StatusUpdater teams that they should merge (no response to my hints yet, will try to make direct contact which could be dificult due to time zones)
     
   • Learn more about other tools in this space so that I can do a full comparison (evaluated Glue and wrote up on my blog)
     

Next Week I will to the following actions:

1. Finish discussions with the local management team about my responsibilities (hopefully will have a decision this week)
2. Decide on whether or not to accept invitation to speak in University of Limerick and prepare thoughts if I do.
   
3. Hold more meetings with product teams using Sametime APIs to see how we can help them update to the leatest features.
   
4. Build new SUT kit for Ubuntu users within IBM to bring them up to the CF1 code level
5. GTD Tool selection project
   • Blog about why I chose not to use the  IBM GTD template 
   • Evaluate remember the milk and migrate my Toodledo tasks to it if feasible/easy.
     
6. Micro-blogging on multiple platforms
   
   • Try to make direct contact with Widlfire developers to convince them to merge code with StatusUpdater
   • Evaluate Bluto and write up on my blog.