Minutes of September 17, 2002 Meeting

Present:

K. Au, S. Bartz, I. Beard, D. Belasco, A. Butman, D. Cryan, M. Giarlo, N. Gonzaga, T. Joachim, D. Kuzma, J. Maxymuk, K. McGuire

1. Systems Update

• PC Purchase Plan – machines have been ordered.
• ACIC Swap – Alex, Kilmer, LSM & the satellites are all done; Camden will be done this week and Newark next week
• ELF machines – the remaining ELFs will be installed this month. The classroom machines were ordered and will be installed starting in December when the rooms are free.
• CD-ROM machines – they have arrived and will be installed by the end of the month.
• Server Upgrades – Nick will start on Chang this weekend. Camden and LSM are half done. 4.1.1 servers are the top priority and will be done by October.
• Videoconferencing Equipment – Nick gave us a demo of the new videoconferencing setup that is installed at TSB and will be installed at Alex, Camden and Newark in the next week. The system allows for up to four sites to connect at one time.

2. PCWG Web Page

We discussed filling in the blank pages on the PCWG web site. John will send Nick a list of Group members and meeting minutes back to January 2002. Au will work on a page of Useful Links. John will bring the Role and Function of the PC Working Group document to the next meeting so we can update it and upload it under Charge.

3. Old/New Business

Discussion points included whether to shift to Internet Explorer from Netscape (Systems supports both equally), that Quicktime should be a standard plug-in, that the public machine image for the Spring semester will include an option only for web mail, and the Newark now has public network printing.

4. Future meeting dates

Upcoming PCWG meetings will be on October 15, November 19 and December 17 at TSB.

Recorded by John Maxymuk