Lets get it done

Forward through the rear-view mirror. "I think to much like our generation" was the comment of a PhD student during a casual chat. I took it as an offence and listened to what he had to say. The department is unhappy with its current website presence. Than they are not alone, I replied. It is not only what you see on their website but also what you don't see. The problem is that students take very long to write their thesis. And no system keeps track of this process. Another problem concerns the publications published by members of the department. Since publications are the sort of product that results from the intellectual endeavour academics are engaged in they have an interest in presenting them. The curious thing is that nobody can tell me where they publish them in the first place.
The current department website has 200 clicks per day according to their webmaster. My analytics tells me something else. Its about 60 clicks per day and most of them come from internal IPs. After a fruitful discussion about relative vague concepts we agreed to meet with the other web editors in the School and engage in a dialogue about the Operation Switch Over.
Talking yesterday to the Network administrator I am really impressed by the facilities of the School. 64TB storage NAS, virtual servers and a department that has everything under control. Thats a positive message. But thats the only one at the moment.