Details

Date: 10/7

Person

• Name: Dr. Gregory Newman

• Position: ECS Assistant Dean of IT Operations

Point of Contact: Ryan Radloff - Fall 2022 President of Nebula Labs

Summary

Dr. Newman is advocating for an official UT Dallas API due to difficulties in accessing university data. He views collaborations with Nebula Labs an opportunity to save time and money for the university by using our tools. He suggests demonstrating the value of our projects to gain support from higher authorities.

Full Discord Message

Link: Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

Email sent to Dr. Walker. Quick notes for everyone about the meeting with Dr. Newman:

Dr. Newman has issues getting data from the university, has been pushing for a UT Dallas API for some time

Dr. Walker would be interested in discussing our products as Dr. Newman believes our development process will lead us to creating tools that save significant time and money for the university

Dr. Newman has connections at the Microsoft in Irving that he may be willing to leverage to help our engineers improve our process (either workshops or company visit. May ask to be put in contact for cloud support?)

Dr. Newman believes that if our tools launch and address a demonstrable need within UT Dallas, that admin would have no issues adopting them as the standard set of tools that students are directed to when looking to degree plan, research classes, and more

Dr. Newman expressed slight interest at Jupiter, but only as a long term initiative as sharepoint is currently in place for the SOC and ECS is also working to implement it Dr. Newman thinks it will be very difficult to reach an agreement to get data from the powers that be without FOIA. However, he believes anything is possible if we "work our way up the totem pole" and prove that our projects have real value