CLA Technology Committee

28 September 2009

Minutes

Attending:  Larry Martinez, Mike Blazey, Bill Grissom, Hicks Marlowe, Suzanne Wechsler, Carl Lipo, Seiji Steimetz

1. Fact Report – Larry Martinez
   1. Nothing to report – no meeting yet this semester
   2. Big bombshell is that we are not going to Angel.
   3. Meeting in the next 2 weeks.
   4. Agreement signed for another year for Beachboard
   5. Moodle – hosting services? Need to find out where we are.
   6. Centralized data storage update (Bill Grissom)
      1. CLA bought 6 terabytes of space to allocate out for centralized storage for faculty and staff.
      2. Hoping to get 10-20 gigs for faculty and staff.
      3. Was to be ready this summer. Met with ITS – were going to develop a Service Level Agreement (SLA).
      4. June – storage has been put on hold. Not clear why. AVP Janet Foster (DAF) and AVP Don Gardner (AA) – some confusion over who does what.
      5. Project now back on track – nothing started again until August.
      6. RAID array – striped for redundancy
      7. Shadow Copy – allow incremental backup.
      8. Virtualized server.
      9. Getting close. Maybe by next meeting.
      10. Move folks from who were on Campus-NAS to new disk.
      11. Mac infrastructure – discussion with OAT
          1. Note: we need a mac infrastructure – or an infrastructure that allows the same degree of control as Windows.
          2. What are College SLAs?
             1. i.     Server side management
             2. ii.     Pass through authentication
2. Should be provided by OAT – to support Mac and Windows
3. Web support group update
   1. Web support group formed – Not representative of faculty – very IT/administration focused.
      1. i.     Goal to come up with content management system. Budget cut issues.
4. Current Dreamweaver/Contribute – client side
5. Need more web-based, defined roles, access privileges.
6. COTA has made contact with someone who is doing demo on Thursday.
   1. i.     We are just trying to push it.
7. We need to continually push centralized providers
8. Email/calendar/collaboration suite/strategy
   1. At one point in time they were going to Exchange.
   2. Now looks like we will move to Google Mail. Concerns over security – but not clear that this is an issue given their SLA. However, they offer a Google Enterprise Edition. Disk space.
   3. Email would be @csulb.edu
   4. CSU has signed a master service agreement. So campuses can move forwards.
   5. Confusion about who is leading what – students first?
   6. Information Technology Leadership Council – formed –  Janet, Don, Bill, Praveen Soni, Mike Costa (note: basically no faculty from the Colleges).
   7. Need representation of faculty at these administration committees
      1. Talk to Chair of Academic Senate – Praveen Soni — about issues self-governance – representation – openness in terms of these ad hoc and non-representative committees.
         1. i.     Why are committees being formed by administration that have no faculty representatively?
         2. ii.     Are these committees open? Posting minutes? Posting agenda? Meeting times?
         3. Computer Refresh:
            1. Current Policy is to do replacement every 4 years.
            2. We don’t know if we are getting BATS funding this year.
            3. Discussion about applications and prioritizing refreshes.