Reference Page Steven Woods

Project Suite Overview

Repo-owned coordination layer for the full Steven Woods public suite. Per-project manifests remain the factual status layer; this file is the judgment layer for priority, quality, likely current work, and next-step tradeoffs.

Tracked projects 12
Active project lines currently carried by this overview.
Reference pages 4
Top-level public entry-point pages outside the active project cards.
Priority bands 5
The current reprioritization vocabulary for this suite.
Updated 2026-05-18
Update this when the portfolio judgment layer changes materially.

How To Use This

Keep one durable portfolio-level mental model in the repo instead of in chat only.
Separate factual project status from portfolio judgment, so the manifest exports can stay factual while priority and time-energy-value tradeoffs can change faster.
Make reprioritization explicit by editing one small source file and rerendering the public and repo-readable overview surfaces.

Update Workflow

Time-Energy-Value Rules

Current Priority Lanes

Protect public surfaces

Projects 2

Keep already-public software, docs, and dashboards trustworthy before expanding scope.

Publish local progress

Projects 0

High-value, usually lower-energy work where repo docs or manifests are already ahead of the public surface.

Steady advance

Projects 8

Important ongoing work that benefits from regular small batches rather than a one-off push.

Seed and clarify

Projects 1

Early-stage areas where a small baseline is more valuable than broad exploration.

Private tracking

Projects 1

Keep only a high-level public summary while the underlying work remains private.

Web Entry Point

Reference Pages

Project suite overview

Portfolio map, public/private surface guide, and reprioritization layer across the full project suite.

Profile

Compact executive profile with current links to LinkedIn, Inovia, and the open archive projects.

Academic ancestry

Direct advisor lineage with links to the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Patents and publications

Selected books, patents, and academic publications.

Recovered Legacy Archives

Old Research Archive Recovery

Recovered entry point for the historical Spectra research site, including preserved publication, course, bibliography, reserve, and raw research-artifact archives.

Project Records

Aurora Galactica

Open project page
Standalone repo exportPublicProtect public surfacesEnergy mediumValue highHorizon short

Public project page synced from its published repository or archive status manifest.

  • Likely current work: Post-release follow-through on the Aurora and Platinum public family, including lane trust, Galaxy Guardians readiness, and cleaner platform-versus-application seams.
  • Next step: Do a quick Aurora release-lane status refresh before any shared-public publish so the manifest and the active release lane stay aligned.
  • Quality: This is the strongest product-style public surface in the suite, so small inconsistencies are disproportionately expensive.
  • Coordination note: Best handled as protect-and-verify work rather than broad redesign.
Drift note Aurora publishes from a separate repo on a faster cadence than this shared hub, so verify the exported manifest before broad public-repo refreshes.

Plan private rental portal

Open project page
Private project summaryMixed public summary / private implementationPrivate trackingEnergy mediumValue highHorizon ongoing

Confidential client-facing portal and product work summarized here only at a high level.

  • Likely current work: Private rental-portal delivery and related product execution.
  • Next step: Keep the public summary minimal and accurate; do not expand the public surface unless there is a deliberate client-safe artifact to add.
  • Quality: The public/private boundary is already clear, which is the main quality goal here.
  • Coordination note: Track only high-level continuity in public.

AI Dystopia Quotes

Open project page
Standalone repo exportPublicSteady advanceEnergy lowValue medium-highHorizon short

Public project page for a curated corpus of recognizable dystopian AI quotations and source metadata.

  • Likely current work: Ongoing corpus expansion, stronger discovery lanes, and continued approval-quality curation rather than platform work.
  • Next step: Keep adding high-quality approved entries in batches and refresh the public export whenever the approved corpus meaningfully grows.
  • Quality: The public page already reads cleanly and feels complete enough to trust; the main question is breadth and selection quality.
  • Coordination note: A good example of a healthy incremental export loop.
  • Evidence status: Approved corpus: 32 entries.

PhD renovation project

Open project page
Standalone repo exportPublicSteady advanceEnergy mediumValue highHorizon medium

Public project page synced from its published repository or archive status manifest.

  • Likely current work: Disciplined intake, continuity hardening, and bounded 1.x cleanup around the stable 1.0.0 baseline.
  • Next step: Continue intake and warning cleanup without destabilizing the verified baseline, then refresh the handbook and dashboard only when the supported story changes materially.
  • Quality: One of the most mature documentation and validation surfaces in the suite.
  • Coordination note: Good candidate for steady, bounded progress rather than urgent intervention.

Masters of Mathematics renovation project

Open project page
Standalone repo exportPublicProtect public surfacesEnergy mediumValue highHorizon short-medium

Public project page synced from its published repository or archive status manifest.

  • Likely current work: Portability hardening, handoff clarity, and careful continuation from the 1.0.0-rc.1 restoration baseline.
  • Next step: Keep the release-candidate surface trustworthy, then only widen into deeper benchmark or hosted-runner work once the portability story is comfortably stable.
  • Quality: Strong research-restoration presentation with clear public framing; still benefits from discipline more than expansion.
  • Coordination note: Treat the hosted runner as mechanism, not the project identity.

Steven Woods Public Record Project

Open project page
Shared-public archive subprojectPublicSteady advanceEnergy mediumValue highHorizon medium

Deep research archive for Steven Woods' talks, interviews, profiles, awards, and cross-company public record.

  • Likely current work: Person-centric continuity work, baseline identity tightening, profile preservation, and keeping the source-manifest and review-ledger split deliberate.
  • Next step: Preserve the remaining URL-backed baseline pages and reconcile the review-ledger-only captures that should become formal source records.
  • Quality: One of the best organized archive areas, with clear role boundaries and strong continuity surfaces.
  • Coordination note: Use this as the canonical person-centric layer, not a dumping ground for company-depth material.
  • Evidence status: Evidence baseline: 22 approved / 0 deferred / 0 rejected (22 total).

Steven at Google Canada Archive

Open project page
Shared-public archive subprojectPublicSteady advanceEnergy low-mediumValue highHorizon short

Research archive for Steven Woods' Google Canada period, covering leadership, Waterloo engineering growth, talks, interviews, and Canadian media coverage.

  • Likely current work: Now that the seeded baseline is public, deepen interview, media, and transition coverage in small, high-signal batches.
  • Next step: Add one more interview or ecosystem source batch, then tighten the public summary only if the center of gravity changes materially.
  • Quality: Now has a seeded, continuity-safe public baseline with room for deeper source density.
  • Coordination note: Good candidate for steady, source-batch progress rather than another structural pass.
  • Evidence status: Evidence baseline: 9 approved / 0 deferred / 0 rejected (9 total).

Steven at Inovia Archive

Open project page
Shared-public archive subprojectPublicSteady advanceEnergy lowValue medium-highHorizon short

Research archive for Steven Woods' Inovia period, covering leadership, talks, public appearances, and ecosystem-facing material.

  • Likely current work: Seeded-baseline maintenance plus current-role, team-profile, and ecosystem appearance capture.
  • Next step: Localize the current team profile and add one more public-appearance or ecosystem source batch.
  • Quality: The continuity structure is in place; the main gap now is source depth rather than project setup.
  • Coordination note: Best advanced through small, explicit source batches.
  • Evidence status: Evidence baseline: 3 approved / 0 deferred / 0 rejected (3 total).

Canberra / CSIRO / Knights Archive

Open project page
Shared-public archive subprojectPublicSeed and clarifyEnergy mediumValue mediumHorizon short

Research archive for Steven Woods' Canberra period, combining CSIRO work, Canberra life, and hockey with the Canberra Knights.

  • Likely current work: Still mostly a scaffold, with the core value in establishing a first honest source baseline rather than broad research.
  • Next step: Seed the first CSIRO, Canberra Knights, and local-context sources so the archive has a real evidence floor.
  • Quality: Clear structure exists, but there is not yet enough source depth to treat it as active archive work in the same way as the stronger projects.
  • Coordination note: Good candidate for a small, bounded seeding pass rather than a big research campaign.
  • Evidence status: Evidence baseline: no formal source records yet.

SEI Pittsburgh Archive

Open project page
Shared-public archive subprojectPublicSteady advanceEnergy low-mediumValue highHorizon short

Research archive for Steven Woods' Software Engineering Institute period in Pittsburgh, covering publications, institute context, and startup-transition material.

  • Likely current work: Seeded-baseline maintenance plus additional staff, paper, and startup-transition context around the SEI-to-Quack bridge.
  • Next step: Add one more staff or transition-context batch, then refresh the summary only when the bridge story materially improves.
  • Quality: Strong continuity and evidence progress, with a published baseline that now supports steady deepening.
  • Coordination note: Good steady research lane now that the scaffold phase is over.
  • Evidence status: Evidence baseline: 12 approved / 0 deferred / 0 rejected (12 total).

Quack.com Archive Project

Open project page
Shared-public bridge archivePublicSteady advanceEnergy medium-highValue highHorizon medium

Collection of memories, demos, artifacts, press, and recovered code from the Quack.com era.

  • Likely current work: Preservation and source-completeness work around AOL by Phone, investor outcomes, first-party capture gaps, and stronger preserved press.
  • Next step: Keep working campaign-by-campaign, preserving fragile or first-party evidence before widening the editorial surface.
  • Quality: A strong archive workflow is in place, but evidence completeness still matters more than polish.
  • Coordination note: Treat the bridge record as compatibility, not as a second canonical home.

Kinitos / NeoEdge Networks Archive

Open project page
Shared-public bridge archivePublicSteady advanceEnergy medium-highValue highHorizon medium

Canonical deep archive inside the shared public repo for the Kinitos origin story and the later NeoEdge Networks era, covering documents, demos, artifacts, and recovered code.

  • Likely current work: A pushed Kinitos branch has finished the approved-source preservation floor and added private-evidence derivative notes, even though the public line still understates that progress.
  • Next step: Promote the preservation-complete Kinitos branch, then shift into deferred-source and public-corroboration follow-up instead of more blocked-press preservation.
  • Quality: One of the strongest deep archives in the suite after Steven and Quack, with clear continuity discipline.
  • Coordination note: The right sequence is promote the preservation-complete branch first, then reopen broader research through deferred and corroboration campaigns.
  • Evidence status: Evidence baseline: 24 approved / 8 deferred / 0 rejected (32 total).
Drift note Current public main still understates the Kinitos preservation floor; the pushed branch is ahead with all approved sources localized and with private-evidence derivative notes already captured safely.