Welcome to Browser Staff

ID Cards

• Get your temporary ID card from Baskin Engineering Building Room 217. This is a key card that will give you access to Engineering II and to the browser rooms on the fifth floor (515, 514, and 505).
• Get your photo taken at the Bay Tree Bookstore. This is the photo that will eventually appear on your UCSC Staff ID card. They are open from 9-4, except for lunch hour. Then take your ID to Al McGuire in Baskin (3d floor) for activation.
• You can get your paper UCSC Staff card (that you were given from HR on your first day of work) laminated at the Science or McHenry Library.

Parking, Busses, & Vanpools

• Get your parking permit and/or your scratch permit and/or all of your other parking and transportation needs satisfied at TAPS. The TAPS office is at the base of campus, just north of the Bay & High entrance. Carpools cost less tha a regular permit costs, split between the two of you. Bus passes are extra if you also have a parking permit. Sign up online at TAPS (http://www2.ucsc.edu/taps/application.html)
• There are two kinds of busses on campus: campus shuttles, and Santa Cruz Metro busses. The shuttle is free and you do not need to show any ID to ride. It goes in a loop around campus. The Metro is free if you have a metro pass (see bullet above), and you must show this pass every time you ride. These busses go to various neighborhoods off campus and end up eventually at the downtown Metro Center. Sign up online at TAPS (http://www2.ucsc.edu/taps/application.html)
• If you live outside of Santa Cruz, you might be interested in joining a vanpool for a small fee: http://www2.ucsc.edu/taps/vanpoolprogram.html

Printing, Copying & Wireless

• Instructions for configuring your computer to print: http://support.soe.ucsc.edu/printing
  • The name of the printer in room 515 is “oops”.
  • The name of the printer in room 505 is “barn”.
  • There is a color printer in room 501 called "lollipop".
• The copier that you can use, for browser business, is located down the hall, just past room 599. You can get a copy card from Bob.
• To set up wireless on your laptop: http://support.soe.ucsc.edu/soe-wpa

Office Supplies

• Generic office supplies are located in the small cabinet in the corner of room 515. You can take what you need from there. You can order anything else you need from through the Admins in the front office.

Getting Paid

• You must complete a time card (online via CruzPay: http://cruzpay.ucsc.edu/) by the 1st day of the month.
• You will be paid on the first. If you want your paycheck to be deposited directly into your account, contact the Payroll Department down on Mission Street Extension (in the building next to where you had your HR introduction day).
• Your pay stub will be posted online a few days later here: https://atyourserviceonline.ucop.edu/ayso/

Our Location

• Mailing Address:

Mail Stop: CBSE/ITI
University of California Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

• FAX Number: 831-459-1809

Email and Google Apps

• To set up your email: http://support.soe.ucsc.edu/e-mail
  • SOE is currently trying out google mail and will be switching to that. Several of us have switched to that. Ask around to learn how to set that up.
  • If you don't want to have to check your slugmail (ucsc) account on a regular basis, you may want to forward to your SOE account.
• Google Apps: http://support.soe.ucsc.edu/google-apps
  • QA is shifting their calendars over to google calendars.
    • You will want to add the following calendars to your calendars using these ical urls:
      • Genecats: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/soe.ucsc.edu_maj8uamno3vkkfint5t8ll56n8%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
      • Genome Browser Mail List: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/soe.ucsc.edu_54vch7pcqotonm64f25nl65ub0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
      • Release Schedule: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/soe.ucsc.edu_r3m0u3g5o4glfer53i9vbe596s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Mailing Lists

• (Caveats for subscribing to the mailing lists: do NOT use your regular login password as your mailing list password. Be sure to provide the email address that you plan to use for posting messages to the mailing list - posting from any another address will be unsuccessful.
  • Sign yourself up for the genecats mailing list: https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genecats
  • Sign yourself up for the School of Engineering (SoE) Staff mailing list: https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/staff
  • Ask your project manager to add your email address to project-specific mailing lists
  • Ask Donna or Bob to add you to browser-staff mailing list

Tutorials

• Open Helix
• A list of other training resources.

Tools

• Vi
  • Don't have a text editor of choice? Learn how to use vi by typing in "vimtutor" on the command line on hgwdev.
  • Vi Quick Start Guide
  • Handy Cheat Sheet

• UNIX Commands
• MySQL Commands
• Common Scripts
• Never edited a wiki page before? Here's a wiki cheat sheet!

Additional Orientation Info

• See the Getting Started on the Genome Browser Project Team for additional (slightly outdated) information
• See the QA Home Page for more info on the QA process.