Target 2000 Technology Team
Meeting Minutes of 01/23/96
Technology Committee
Notes of: Jan. 23, 1996 Meeting
Present: Bill Post, Beverly Taylor, Debbie McElroberts, Tom Welsh, Jeff Bell, Frederica
Shockley, Jon Ebeling, Dan Toy
Staff: Susan Greco and Darrell Bartlett
1. Faculty Computing Project:
Debbie McElroberts distributed a DRAFT of the near completed bid. Feedback was
requested by 5:00 Wednesday, January 24th. Language covering both aspects of service
and training are being reviewed. It is expected that the fine tuning will take a couple of
weeks.
Implementation issues were also discussed. Bev and Darrell will provide a list of what
their technicians will do. They will separate what CCTS must do versus what can be done
by individual college technical staff. CCTS is willing to provide training for college
technicians to do software and machine transfers. However, personnel outside of CCTS is
NOT authorized to make any changes to the networked infrastructure. All changes must
be coordinated through CCTS.
The Technology Committee needs to provide a recommendation for what the bottom end
machine will be with regard to campus continued support. For example, will we no
longer support 286's etc.?
Beverly will provide information regarding Windows 95 at our next meeting. Darrell
with consult with Shipping and Receiving regarding a secure receiving area for the
shipment pending installation at various sites.
Compatibility of various versions of software on various models of computers was
discussed. Although it's near impossible to come up with a concise list of
recommendations due to the variety of configurations that could be inherent on a
machine, Darrell will discuss with Jerry Ringle the possibility of coming up with a list
which could be used as a guideline.
2. Target 2000 Update:
Everyone is to review the current Target 2000 document and bring forth suggestions for
an update to the original plan. This will be reviewed in two weeks.
3. E-Mail:
ECT has presented a proposal for e-mail. Jim Garlick of ECT will be a guest at a future
meeting to discuss the proposal with the committee.
Other possible solutions are also being investigated. One is Simeon by Esys which uses
an I-map protocol and doesn't require gateways. Cost is affordable. There is a white paper
and a FAQ on the Web at www.esys.ca. Debbie will circulate a copy of these two items.
4. Site Licenses (e.g. MS Office):
Microsoft is not doing site licenses anymore. There are no more bulk purchases. Chico is
too small to get cost breaks. It was suggested that we might investigate trying to pull
together pricing for all CSU's. It was suggested that Fred Ryan bring this up at IRM.
5. Spring Meeting Schedule:
The possible meeting days/times were suggested which will be sent to all members to
derive the best possible meeting time.