Technology Committee Minutes
April 29, 2004
In attendance: Bonnie Borenstein, Steve Dodson, John Hinds, Kathleen Kirkpatrick, Nancy Kutcher,
Jesse Law, Deb Mindel, Matthew Priewe, Ingrid Schreck,, Frank Vaskelis, Derek Wilson
I.
Minutes from last meeting
a. The minutes were approved with an additional action item: Rainer will create an email
address that’s forwarded to techcommittee@marin and SIG will add the link for people
wanting to send questions about the technology survey.
II.
Technology Survey
a. Student Survey
i. The poster that Derek created was approved with some changes to the text and a
lighter color.
Action: Deb will print 25 copies of each size of the poster by Monday.
Action: Nancy will contact lab staff and distribute posters.
ii. The link for the student survey was reviewed and some changes were suggested
b. Other surveys
i. It was clarified that there will be no link from the home page to the faculty
survey.
ii. It was decided that the text Deb wrote for the memo will be used as the basis for
the intro to the surveys and that the SIG survey site would use the College’s
logo.
Action: Frank will post the College’s logo on the survey site.
iii. Frank reviewed the changes to the surveys and asked the committee members to
test them all and advise him of any problems.
Action: Committee members to test all four surveys by Friday.
Action: Steve will contact IT and get an email set up for the Tech Committee for
people to respond to any survey problems.
Action: Deb will write content of email announcing the survey and forward to Rainer.
Action: Frank will contact Rainer to advise him of when to post the email.
III.
Online Registration Security Issues
a. Jesse brought to the committee’s attention the need to make certain that the online
registration system is secure. He demonstrated how easily he could hack into the system.
Action: Derek will write a memo from the Committee to Lois Callahan, Michael
Beebe, and Hank Fearnley expressing the Committee’s concern about web
security.
IV.
Interviews
a. The interview list was reviewed and edited.
Action: Bonnie will work with Frank and Eileen to begin scheduling interviews as
soon as possible.
Action: Deb will set up the Tech Committee calendar so Eileen can schedule.
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Technology Committee Minutes
April 29, 2004
V.
Other Matters
a. Deb reported that Cabinet set high priorities for IT to put everyone on Exchange and to
have database driven course listings online.
b. The Committee reviewed the initial timeline and discovered that we are more or less on
schedule.
c. Frank suggested that the next important step would be to develop Vision and Mission
statements for the Committee.
Action: Frank will send Committee sample vision and mission statements.
VI.
Review of Action Items
a. Completed items:
i. Deb designed link to student survey on home page
ii. Derek designed the poster for the student survey
iii. Bonnie contacted the Echo Times and a small article about the student survey
will appear in the next edition, due out early next week.
iv. Bonnie sent out memo to all faculty and staff about the Committee’s progress,
etc.
v. Frank posted test surveys.
vi. Frank made survey revisions.
vii. Frank got some “words” from Bonnie for the survey intro, but it was decided that
other “words” would be used.
b. Incomplete items:
i. Rainer needs to set up Outlook accounts for Derek and John so that they can
have access to the Public Folders.
ii. Rainer needs to set up access for Jesse Law
iii. Rainer needs to get the “auto reply” working for the Public Folders.
VII.
Next Meeting.
a. It was decided that at the next meeting, the Committee needs to establish ground rules for
making decisions.
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