Namely, I see this past semester having served to get me adjusted into the COSI community. A lot has changed about the nature of COSI, itself, since I joined. We're no longer 'team based'. So when I started the year on the Webpage Team (headed by Justin Snow), we began with a few tasks. The CVS (Concurrent Versions System) install was the first true item of business that I was involved in.

Following this was the switch to more 'goal-oriented' meetings at which Mike and/or Kyle presented on different procedures and such, and then broke us into groups to accomplish a task. At one such meeting (2/25/04), we set up the COSI lab to backup automatically. Personally, I was with Mike; setting up Gonzo. That Saturday (2/28/04) I showed up for the COSI workday and got a crash-course from Kyle in Linux Kernels. I'd like to say I'm now an expert, but there was a lot going on, and i was basically following instructions. Hands-on experience can be an excellent teacher, though.

I continued to come to meetings, and stop into the lab every once in awhile to check out the lab build (as per Mike's suggestion). Then came the day of Open House(3/24/04). That was an entirely enjoyable day. I came bright and early to represent COSI, talked to some kids (what few there were), then had an enjoyable conversation over lunch with one student and his folks. Oh yea, and I also helped to break the water-bottle record. After Open House, we came back to the lab and set up some machines to run Fedora (for testing purposes (for the presentation that got pushed to next fall)).