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Computing Steering Committee
(AcCSC) Minutes of Meetings: Present: Bauman, Boyer, Cossey, Klein, Sener, Smith, Traver
Review of last meeting's minutes Clarification: See last weeks minutes for a clarification of the statement about the Schaffer Library online catalog system. Welcome: The committee welcomed a new member, Josh Bauman, '04 as its student member. 1. Network issues. Doug K. brought in a length (100' plus) of Cat-5 cable recovered from Davidson South which appears to have been used to create an ad hoc network among rooms in the dorm. These types of unauthorized networks can cause problems for the wider campus network. Josh B. speculated that these networks might be used to play real-time computer games. Dave C. and the ITS staff are working on ways to more quickly identify and isolate network problems. 2. Budgets. Departments and Responsibility Centers are currently working on their 2002-2003 budget submissions. We will have a look at the Academic Affairs technology budget in a week or two. 3. Cable TV system. The College is considering running cable TV into all dorm rooms. At some point this committee might be interested in two related issues: Who will administer this system (what person, what responsibility center), and how can the system be used to further the academic mission of the College? (The system is proposed to have four channels dedicated for use on campus.) 4. Webmasters list.
Earlier this term Doug K. conducted a survey to
identify where Departments hosted their websites, and who was designated as webmaster.
The results are posted.
Since the survey results are incomplete and changing, they are NOT linked
anywhere except here. You can also only view it from a Union IP address.
5. Advising system. The following message has been sent to the 10 departments currently authorized to used the new Web Advising system: October 9, 2001 All faculty in the following departments have been added to the new web advising system.
Feel free to call me with any questions. I would also be glad to
visit a Department meeting to introduce your faculty to this new service. 6. E-mail accounts. Fuat S. raised the question of supplying advisee e-mail addresses, especially if students do not choose to use their official Union e-mail addresses. The College does not collect (and probably could, or should not try to collect) non-Union addresses. The best solution seems to be either to manually collect students' preferred addresses, or to teach them how to set up .forward files in their Idol accounts. Here is one example of a help sheet for setting up .forward. Perhaps someone here can adapt these instructions to match what users see on Idol. [Added Oct. 16: Diane K. has sent me the link to ITS's "how to" sheet on forwarding mail. We should publicize this sheet to faculty. This is part of a much larger list of "How To" sheets for PC, Mac, and UNIX systems.] 7. About U. The new e-mail news service of the Communications office is in beta test mode. [Added Oct. 17: Click here to subscribe to About U.] 8. Monkcam. Shortly after the meeting ended, Monkcam became operational (beta testing). The Monks will be live on Monkcam beginning Saturday, October 20, for about 5 days. [Added Oct. 16. Monks page, with link to the cam is here.] The meeting adjourned at 2:30 Next meeting: October 18, 2001, 1:30, Steinmetz 237 |
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