Attending: jtguy, jwl, jogomes, tjsmith, ranjani, jmhunt, othomas

  • ACCORD / Accordiacs update
  • Xerox
    • Moving forward with pilot
    • Large scale priners in N42 and W92
    • Will need to test with N42 printer in "academic" contexts (Debathena, etc.)
  • 1E Nightwatchman / remote wake
    • 92% success on back - will probably not go with that because that success rate is problematic for backup
    • Running pilot with nightwatchman to collect usage patterns and power mgmt settings
    • Generate an "energy snapshot"
    • Guesstimate is 10%-20% energy consumption because of large numbers of CPUs on campus
    • Savings due to power management goes down as machines become more efficient
  • Trading lab tour
    • Pano boxes for client/server VM deployment
    • USB, Ethernet, VGA connected to VMware server
    • Lower equipment cost
    • Improve manageability
    • Longer life
    • Can leverage delta-images, shared disk space, etc.
    • 25GB standalone images managed through VMware view server
    • Member machines in win.mit.edu
    • No real student feedback (yet?): no complaints, comments on lack of DVD drive for presenter machines
    • Looking at it for kiosks
    • Can we do a pilot of 10 win.mit.edu Pano web kiosks?
  • EDUCAUSE
    • No seminar, abbreviated trip
    • Local repeat of seminar during IAP

Ranjani:

  • Educational Technology Pages
    • Begun redoing those pages
    • Different from teaching with technology, IS&T-specific view into EdTech
  • Faculty interview questions
    • List in wiki at
    • Want to have a consistent way to reach out to faculty for initial check-in and interviews
    • Joanne: Take a look at MISTI web sites which has profiles for countries including "practical info" page; can we make suggestions to them or cross-link?
    • Will reach out to them to show Hermes country template
    • Joanne and Ranjani may try to attend MISTI info session on Wednesday

Tommy:

  • Getting John re-oriented
    • SunBlade in 4-162 revived
    • Random dorm issues

Joyce:

  • Working with Jon Reed on recent
    • Debathena install issues, but not too many

Joanne:

  • Service Desk staff meeting
    • Improvements to software distribution and support
    • Students vs Fac/Staff patterns
    • Easier ways to direct, guide, steer
    • Software grid not very friendly at articulating support options
    • Brainstorming ideas for student-to-student support involvement
    • What might FSX own on the IS&T front page? EdTech box, etc.
  • What's up with the next IS&T all-hands?
  • Tuesday will be a student Monday

John:

  • ProxCard update
  • Paul and Dan will get back to us later this week to let us know when they can take a look at cluster stuff

Alex:

  • 3rdPartySW updates, extra packages
    • Took a bunch of Ubuntu packages out and put some new ones in
    • Including CSAIL's Python packages
  • Updates went out to student MATLAB download page
    • Wording updates

Jon Hunt:

  • Keyserver project moving forward
  • Licensing going on now
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