Darren Bondy
Secretary to the Committee
August 2, 2017
Present:
Colin Bell (acting Chair), Darren Bondy (Secretary), Bill Baer, Steven Bourque, Andrea Chappell, Don Duff-McCracken, Lawrence Folland, Andrew McAlorum, Martin McLeod (guest), Omar Nafees, Paul Miskovsky, Adam Savage, Jason Testart
Regrets:
Bruce Campbell (Chair), Trevor Bain, Erick Engelke, Dave Kibble, Robyn Landers
Agenda
- Chair’s remarks [5 min.]
- Approval of the minutes of the meeting of July 6, 2017 [5 min.]
- Namespace management discussion [20 min.]
- Other Business [5 min.]
- Roundtable discussion – all [20 min.]
- Next CTSC Meeting
[Will be held Thursday, August 3, 2017, at 1:30 p.m., in EC2 1021.]
Chair’s Remarks (Colin Bell for Bruce Campbell)
- The acting Chair welcomed the new Director of Arts Computing, Bill Baer to the committee.
- Bruce Campbell will be returning next week.
Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting
The minutes from the previous meeting were accepted as distributed.
Namespace management discussion
Continuing on the discussion around namespace management from previous meetings:
- The document on campus domain name management is outdated and was created before the WCMS was implemented.
- It has recently been discussed at the Web Steering Committee and consensus that meeting is that domain name requests should be approved by the CIO and VP University Relations as opposed to being brought in front of all Executive Council for approval.
- Web Steering will continue to review these requests before being brought CIO and VP University Relations.
- Several other updates are necessary to make this document more relevant.
- New Manager of Web Development, Joe Kwan, will review this document and make an updated draft to bring back to this committee in a couple meetings.
- It has recently been discussed at the Web Steering Committee and consensus that meeting is that domain name requests should be approved by the CIO and VP University Relations as opposed to being brought in front of all Executive Council for approval.
- Technical or service related requests for internal domains as well as generic email addresses will still come to CTSC for review.
Other Business
- None.
Roundtable Reporting
Environment (Don Duff-McCracken)
- Marko Dumancic has returned to work; will return to CTSC in a few meetings.
Instructional Technologies and Multimedia Services (Andrea Chappell)
- Video storage and delivery project: 2nd meeting is tomorrow; can continue sending updates to this group if there is interest.
- Finally finishing up guidelines for cloud-based learning technologies that instructors use on campus; sent out to UCIST and will send to this group soon.
Engineering (Martin McLeod for Erick Engelke)
- Asked questions to the networking services group regarding warranties on new equipment and surplus off old equipment as part of the switch upgrade project.
Science (Paul Miskovsky)
- Still working on eValuate version 2; Mirko still working on the admin back end.
- Working on outline for the syllabus project.
Library (Adam Savage)
- Having some issues with the ArcGIS licensing; will discuss with Sandra Laughlin in IST.
Computer Science (Lawrence Folland)
- All of our CS sites have been moved into the WCMS now; some issues with the search function so we are working with IST to resolve.
- There is a new administrative manager in CS who is interested in a tool that could help manage things like TA and room assignments, among other things.
- If there is anything out there that already exists or there is broader interest, please contact Lawrence Folland to discuss.
- Will be moving the Exam management tool over to IST; Jason Gorrie is setting up a web server to host it. It will soon be available to all of campus; more details to sort out before that happens.
- If there is interest in getting a high school coop student for the fall, please let Lawrence know and he can put you in contact with the coordinator.
Next meeting
The next meeting will be held on August 3, 2017 at 1:30pm, in EC2 1021.