The University Technology Committee meeting was convened at 10:05am in room 2/1131 by Chairperson Richard Crosby.

Announcements

Chairperson Crosby stated that room 2/1131 has been reserved for the UTC meetings through the end of this term.

Kathy Hughes announced that Tumbleweed (spam blocker) will go live to the University community on March 1st.

Steve Lyon announced that beginning on March 1st all new users will be logging on with their 'N' number (using the Spriden ID system). The system will allow you the opportunity to change your email address to a more user-friendly one if you so choose. The Spriden ID will be generated by Human Resources and information on it will be posted to the Employee Self Service page. The contact in Human Resources will be Angel Ezell.

Information Items

Kathy Hughes reported that the Web Advisory committee has been looking at some web pages and at the next UTC meeting she will be able to share with the group what they have put together. The intention is to provide a template to departments for their use so that the University can have a common theme running from the main page to individual department web pages.

Deborah Miller reported that the Mac Client team will be meeting on February 17th. A demo will be provided on Apple's new products as well as a discussion of the new Apple Computer Store located in the new St. Johns Town Center Mall across the street.

Jace Hargis reported that the Distance Learning group is working on a marketing plan as well as by-laws.

Approval of Minutes - December 6, 2004

The minutes from the December 6, 2004, UTC meeting were approved as distributed.

Network Acceptable Use Action Team Report

Katharine Brown reported that this group has not met yet this year. She also stated that she has been so involved with her Banner duties, that she will probably have to give up being chair of this action team. She reported that she will have a report to present at the next UTC meeting.

Campus Technology Committee Report

Katharine Brown reported that this committee is focusing on issues that are important to faculty and are pushing the C-Techs to do a classroom technology document. They are also looking at plagiarism software and will talk with Karen Reedy to see what they want to do.

She also asked the UTC where they stand on campus notification for downtime. She has received a flood of email from faculty when systems are off-line. There is no way to find out about these things. She said that this will be an agenda item for the next Campus Technology Committee meeting. Chairperson Crosby requested that Kathy Hughes contact other universities to see what they do about this.

Information Technology Security Action Team Report

Jeff Durfee reported that the bricking-in of the server room has been completed. Chairperson Crosby asked Lance Taylor to meet with Charlie Bear to take a long-term look at infrastructure and report back at the next UTC meeting.

ERP Update

Scott Bennett was not at the meeting; therefore, there was no update.

Florida LambdaRail

Lance Taylor reported that he had turned in all signed documents to the Florida LambdaRail Board last Friday. This makes UNF a two-unit partner. We are still on schedule for a March turn up on the network. After that, Florida LambdaRail will be the conduit to our ISP.

Wireless Initiative

Chairperson Crosby stated that he is 99% sure that we will be receiving $100,000 in mid-year funding for this initiative. Steve Lyon presented a visual of the campus map showing the existing wireless access points as well as some projected access points. It is his intent to get wireless in Buildings 42 and the Library with donated equipment. He has asked his technology leaders to do walk-throughs to look for good locations.

Master Plan Presentation

Chairperson Crosby presented a PowerPoint presentation on the 2005-2015 Master Plan Update. Additional information will be made available on the UNF web page soon.

Spring Initiatives / Issues

It was requested that Shawn Brayton attend the next meeting of the UTC to do a presentation on the Banner Student System.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:15 a.m.