New Tech Staff

Welcome To the Geek Section Newbie! This page is your new best friend!

Disclaimer: This page is NOT helpful at all if you are still wondering why you joined McNair Center, or questioning your life choices in general. Please schedule a therapeutic session with Ed or Anne.

Setup

Make sure you have access to each of the following:

• Your virtual workstation
• WebServer
• RDB Server
• Mediawiki server
• Test web server

User Page

Every McNair staff maintains his own personal wikipage, detailing administrative information and professional/academic background, alongside a short autobiography.

Refer to Dylan's Wikipage for inspiration. Or refer to the comprehensive staff list.

Create your own Wikipage by going to Form:McNair_Staff and filing out the form. On the first page of the form use your Full Name with spaces (like Ed Egan), not your username. Fill out the fields. For the image, upload one (see "Upload file" in the left Wiki sidebar) and just put the name of the file in the box (e.g. YourPic.jpg). Finally go to your user page (click your username at the top of the page), edit that page and include the following line:

#REDIRECT [[Full Name]]

Faculty Members to the McNair Center should also fill out a page. Please use this form Form:McNair_Faculty.

Working with the Wiki

At McNair, the Wiki is both home to developed content in the form of an independent public Wikipage, and developing content that will serve a academic paper, issue brief or blog post in the future. It is the research team's main tool for knwoledge sharing, pooling resources, writing and peer-editing.

To get started,

• Basic Wiki Markup Guide
• Forms and Templates - Working with pre-existing ones and making new ones
• When in doubt, contact Ed or ask a friend!

Useful resources from wikipedia:

• Complete Wiki Markup Documentation
• Text Layout Philosophy
• Wiki-appropriate Writing Style

You should also be creating pages for identified topic areas and to keep track of your projects. You must secure your pages by adding them to Category:Internal or some other appropriate category, so that they are available only to McNair staff and faculty. If you try to create a page that already exists the form will redirect you to edit that page.

Workday Norms

1. Upon arrival at work, please sign in to the McNair RDP. This is how we track your physical attendance at McNair.
2. After signing into the RDP, please fill out your work log. This should include the hours you work that day as well as your intended accomplishments for the day (preferably with links to pages you worked on!)
3. Find at least one article per week related to entrepreneurship/another cool, related topic at Rice, Houston, in Texas, or in the United States. Post this article to the Slack #twitter channel.

"Everything that you see and hear and live is made by other people; feel free to change it." - Steve Jobs