Minutes - Applications & Equipment Committee

Campus Technology Advisory Board

CTAB Applications & Equipment Committee
Summary of Meeting - 3/3/2010

Campus Image

Thank you to Greg Fuller for his many years of work heading the Imaging Committee and working with our committee.
Welcome to Tim Yager who is taking over this responsibility. The committee has been renamed the Enterprise Desktop Services Committee (EDSC)
Natalie received several suggestions from faculty for the images. These were presented to the Committee and to CTS for discussion and review.
Information was shared that MS Office does not open Open Office files - a hardship for students who cannot afford to purchase the MS product. Natalie asked Tim to see if there is something available to convert these files. UPDATE - Natalie found an MS Office plugin from Sun for CTS to review that appears to do just that: http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/index.jsp
The EDSC will now do a technical review of the suggestions
Sample images should be available in late April. Everyone is invited and encouraged to review them. A fresh set of eyes is always welcomed to be sure nothing is overlooked.

New Phone System

Tyrone Johnson-Neuland gave a presentation on the new phone project and the many facets and challenges of the project. Some interesting pieces of info:
There will be occasional planned outages as equipment and services are installed or moved
The new system will be VoIP. Handsets will get their power over the Ethernet so will not need to be plugged into an outlet.
A small system of analog lines will continue to be supported for faxes and modems

Important dates:

Friday, March 12 - full CTAB meeting, 8:00am, Campus Center 114
Wed, Apr 7 - Next Applications/Equipment Committee meeting, 8:00am. Poucher 101
End of April - opportunity to review the sample images