Committee meeting - March 2, 2017

Darren Bondy
Secretary to the Committee
March 14, 2017

Present: 

Bruce Campbell (Chair), Darren Bondy (Secretary), Colin Bell, Steven Bourque, Don Duff-McCracken, Erick Engelke, Bob Hicks, Dawn Keenan, Robyn Landers, Carl Nagel, Jason Testart

Regrets:

Trevor Bain, Andrea Chappell, Lawrence Folland, Dave Kibble, Paul Miskovsky, Sati Singh

Agenda

  1. Chair’s remarks [5 min.]
  2. Approval of the minutes of the meeting of February 16 [5 min.]
  3. Agile platform (Colin Bell) [15 min.]
  4. Other Business [10 min.]
  5. Roundtable discussion – all [20 min.]
  6. Next CTSC Meeting:
    [Will be held Thursday, March 16, 2017, at 1:30 p.m., in EC2 1021.]

Chair’s Remarks

  • None.

Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting

The minutes from the previous meeting were accepted as distributed.

Agile Platform (Colin Bell)

Colin Bell demonstrated a couple products that they are working with in Enterprise Architecture like Jira, Confluence and MatterMost.  

  • Also showed members the MatterMost product that is a locally developed product similar to Slack.
  • Currently gauging interest and demand for these products before deciding if we should roll them out more widely.
  • Contact Colin Bell if interested in using any of these products.
  • Demonstrated something his team put together. Looking to gauge interest right now.

Other Business

Qualtrics

  • Still getting it ready for launch to campus; waiting on Qaultrics to migrate the current licenses on campus over to the site license.

Printing

  • How are faculties/departments handling non-student printing?
    • No set process for printing campus wide and it varies from group to group; some groups purchase and manage a few printers for their area.
    • Retail Services provides printers for some areas like IST; paid for by IST for the department to use.
      • Contact Randy Dauphin in Retail Services if you are interested in setting up printing through them.

Roundtable Reporting

Technology Integrated Services, IST (Steven Bourque)

  • Distributed a list of hosts using legacy IPs; will be setting May 1 as the deadline for those to be off so we can upgrade the hardware.

Arts (Dawn Keenan)

  • First term where the default for course evaluations are in eValuate; using a lot of administrative staff time and Mirko’s time to deal with several unique cases.

Client Services, IST (Bob Hicks)

  • Hoping to have Portal available to everyone on campus for Campus Day; this would mean visitors could use the Portal without authenticating into it.
  • Regarding cell booster discussion from last meeting; spoke with Rogers and they will be contacting Lawrence to scout the DC building and decide what to do from there.

Math (Robyn Landers)

  • Continuing discussions with Computer Science and IST to move to RT 4.4.
  • Had an inquiry about an access point being installed in someone’s office in MC.
    • It was moved there to improve performance; all new buildings have the access points in the offices now. We were receiving complaints about poor wireless service in offices.

IT Security (Jason Testart)

  • Turned on Proofpoint on March 1 for all of campus; have not heard of any significant issues.

Next meeting

The next meeting will be held on March 16, 2017 at 1:30pm, in EC2 1021.