15-September-2009 Meeting Notes

Attending 9/22/09

Jim Cain
Joyce Gomes
Tom Smith
Oliver Thomas
Jon Hunt
Ranjani Saigal
Joanne Larrabee (recorder)
Alex Prengel

Brainstorming content for Oliver's segment of presentation at CSS All
Hands Meeting
Friday, October 2nd,

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Q1, 2009 Accomplishments

SD Overlap

• DebAthena
  • Delivery of DebAthena
  • What runs where revamp
  • Installation on public machines

*Orientation/Fall Readiness
Student
Faculty

• • Computing at MIT map

• FSX WIki

*ACCORD

• • Video
  • Accordias
  • DebAthena on VM presentation

*Software

• • Streamline student Matlab release
  • Eclipse, Netwbams
  • OpenOffice

• IST Web Site
  • Software Grid
  • VSLS Pages
  • ACS Pages cleanup

• Laptop Loaner

• Student Projects

*Sun/Cluster

• • Dell Deployment
  • Picture library of clusters
  • Public Clusters
  • Equipment to x-fer to Robert R. Taylor Network (RRTN) - took some
    of our old equipment

Maintenance

• • Carpet cleaning
  • Door codes

• • Student WIndows VM Discovery
    Virebo

• Transitions
  • DCAD > DCAD
  • VSLS Operational > Service Desk
  • VSLS Licensing > CSSHQ
  • SWRT > ISDA

• Feasibility of Mac Apps on OpenAFS

• win.mit.edu deployments in w20

• Keyserver proposal > Project Acceptance

• 1E Evaluation

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FY10 Q2 Goals

• Sun Decommission
  • Dialups?
  • Software leftovers?

• FSX Metrics?
  • Athena
    • Software
    • Deployment
  • Keypads and Prox Cards
    • Data collection
    • Athena spaces

• Deploy Keyserver pilot within IS&T

• 1E Evaluation - extend and complete

• Faculty Travel Profiles

• Campus map with EdTech info

• Deactivation/desupport plans for Athena software
  • Support > effort?
  • Not Support > effort?

• Keyserver Pilot
  • IS&T internal initially
  • Adobe Captivate, Design Premium, Acrobat

• VMWare
  • Latest desktop
  • Student version of WIndows

• ESRI site license

• "Techlassrooms"
  • Collaboration + k.b.
    • Who
    • Who fixes what
    • How

• General Institute Requirements
  • Software survey
  • Stack?
  • Delivery

• Technology
  • Room wizard
  • Prox cards
  • soft clickers
  • VM

• Faculty Engagement? What is it?

• Hardware and software inventory

• Make sense of web rsrc.
  • EdTech pages

• "Work on" wikis portfolio

Meta thought - start defining roles of student IS&T engagement

SIdebar: Keep Q2 list small, task force will drive our efforts
(printing and learning spaces)

Alex: What about Athena 9 stations?

Jon Hunt: NERCOMP: October 9th "Classrooms of the Future", October
30th "VM"