MacBuild Goals 2011

Short-term goals

• Meet with Tony from store to work on Mac-store logistics
  • • Done, but this should be an ongoing relationship. Paco's involvement in both Macs and the store should help
• Create Mac Build Instructor Guide
  • • Done!
• Create Mac work priority list
  • • IP, There is a white-board available now to list the day's priorities, but not an overall list.
• Always have 6 functioning external firewire drives
  • • Done for now. We will see how long they last. We can also put the same image on the network.
• Solicit feedback from all Mac volunteers
  • • In-progress
• Work on a schedule for keeping up with accessories/peripherals testing
  • • done
• Recruit a Mac Volunteer Instructor for the Friday morning shift
  • • Done: Ron will be the Volunteer Instructor.
• Francisco ready to run Tuesday morning shift
  • • Done
• start moving those laptops!
  • • IP
• Order and clean the Mac Area to make it user friendly and optimize space
  • • In-Progress
• Better lighting in the Mac Area
  • • In-Progress
• Get a monthly(?) report from the store re: what Macs were sold that month and for how much money
  • • Done! Jason, our wonderful technocrat volunteer, has created this query from the database.
• Organize the laptops in TARDIS
  • • Done.

Mid-term goals

• Create a basic trouble shooting guide for building Macs
• Create an auto-recycle list (with pictures) for receiving to identify what Mac accessories we do not want.
• Create a track for new Mac Build volunteers to follow when starting in MacBuild. Something like:
  • Mac Desktop Eval.
  • Mac Desktop Build
  • Mac Basic testing
  • Mac Laptop recycling/scraptops
  • Mac Laptop Build
  • Mac Advanced Desktop Build
  • Mac Advanced Laptop Build
• Improve and Maintain documentation
  • • IN-progress
• sure-up Evaluation process
• Create more volunteering opportunities within MacLand
  • • In-progress
    • IP, asking the technocrats to expand Mac schedule for 5 slots. More testing opportunities for volunteers. - done
• Decide what to do with Old Macs

Long-term goals

• Integrate Mac-Build into Desktop Build (once we are receiving mostly intel Macs)