The Shriver Center’s Peaceworker Fellows recently met with City Council President Jack Young and City Councilman Jim Kraft to discuss their history of public service and their vision for moving Baltimore forward.

UMBC’s Peaceworker Fellows have worked in public service internships at City Hall with Councilman Kraft for nearly a decade. This partnership has allowed Peaceworker alumni to hold positions in various City Hall offices.

The above photo features the current cohort of Peaceworker Fellows at Baltimore City Hall on March 28, joined by Peaceworker alumni Kristyn Oldendorf from Councilman Kraft’s Office, Lisa Fink from the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, Cailin Benson from Council President Young’s Office and Brian Greenan from the Mayor’s Office of Economic and Neighborhood Development.

At 10pm tonight, Tuesday April 8th, there will be a 45min outage of the Cyrus mail system.  This outage is needed to patch a critical security vulnerability which has just been discovered.  In order to mitigate this vulnerability a security patch must be installed which requires a reboot of all mail servers.  The mail servers will be restarted one at a time which will minimize the disruption of mail services.  Users will only lose access to their mail for a short period of time during the reboot.  Incoming mail will be queued during the reboot and then delivered once the server has been restarted.  No mail will be lost during this process and no user side action is needed.  Anyone who has migrated to Google will not be impacted by this restart.  We apologize any inconvenience.

The Model-Based User Interfaces Working Group has published two Group Notes today:

• MBUI – Abstract User Interface Models. Model-Based User Interface Design facilitates interchange of designs through a layered approach that separates out different levels of abstraction in user interface design. This document covers the specification of Abstract User Interface Models, by defining its semantics through a meta-model, and an interchange syntax (expressed as XML Schema) for exchanging Abstract User Interface Models between different user interface development environments.
• MBUI – Task Models. Task models are useful when designing and developing interactive systems. They describe the logical activities that have to be carried out in order to reach the user’s goals. This document covers the specification of Task Models, with a meta-model expressed in UML, and an XML Schema that can be used as the basis for interchange of Task Models between different user interface development tools.

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