MTU System Administration Council Minutes for 15 Jan 2009
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3:00 - 5:00 PM, EERC 122

  I.  Additions and Corrections to Agenda
		
 II.  Roll Call of Voting Members
		Attendance list  (with proxy representation)
			Scott Ackerman
			James Bialas
			Paul Raymond
			Dave Kraus
			Robert Landsparger
			Bob Gilreath							

III.  Approval of Minutes from Previous Meeting
	
 IV.  Chair Report
		No Report 

  V.  Office of Information Technology Departmental Reports

	 1. Administrative Information Services 
		No Report

	 2. Educational Technology Services
		Installed Echo 360 lecture capture in Rekhi Hall classrooms G09 and 214 and 
		includes the following functionality:
			The system includes a video camera, a microphone, and a device to capture 
			the images from the local computer, document camera, or laptop.  (The 
			system captures the same image that is presented on the projection screen). 
			Contact David Chard for more information.
 
		Purchased Adobe Connect web-conferencing, hosted by Adobe, as a replacement for 
		Marratech (which is end-of -Life).  Contact Chad Arney for more information.
 
		Completed the following a/v upgrades in classrooms and conference rooms:
			MEEM 112, 208, 402, 403, 908, 1021
			Rekhi 214

	 3. Information Technology Services and Security
		No Report

	 4. Telecommunications Services
		Business as usual

 VI.  Old and Standing Business

VII. Subcommittee Reports

       1.  Constitution Subcommittee
            Jeff Blank, Chair
			* No report. 

       2.  Education Subcommittee
            James Bialas, Chair
			A funding request has been received.
			Reminder: funding requests can still be submitted

       3.  Support Needs Subcommittee
            Kevin Raber, Chair
			* No report.

       4.  Red Hat Network Working Group
			* No Report.

       5.  Crisis Management Subcommiteee
			* No Report.

VIII.  Voting and Approval

 IX.  New Business

  X.  Presentations

 XI.  Announcements and Dates of Interest

	1. EIT Merger - A merger of CECN, EECN, and WECN has been proposed and accepted in principle.
			- Working on an SLA and ironing out fine points
			- Org will be composed of a User Support group headed by Javier Fernandez and a Systems Support group headed by Scott Ackerman
			- The User Support group will have Help Desk locations in Dillman and MEEM
			- Most servers will move to NOC/Datacenter
			- 3 current *ECN staff members will move to ITSS
			- Transition to be phased in over next 5-6 months
			- 1 ITSS staff memeber will move to Systems Support group
			- mtusysadm council role may be affected by new campus IT structure 
								
	2. Dewpoint/Sun rep coming Monday 1/19 2-3pm EERC 122
			- Demo server placed with Steve Camps
								
	3. MTU Home directories live on Campus01-31
			- Business users will be added to Abyss this week
			- Fine Arts by spring break
			- Bio, Excercise Sci, Soc Sci are 70% defined in Abyss
			- Abyss will be a Full Auth Domain by end of week

XII.  Ask the Council
		
XIII. Adjournment
		3:50pm 
      Open Forum

    
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  Chair                        Scott Ackerman
  Vice-Chair                   James Bialas
  Information Officer          Paul Raymond

  Constitution Subcommittee            Education Subcommittee
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     Jeff Blank , Chair                   James Bialas, Chair
     Josh Olson                           Michelle Borkowski
     Bob Gilreath                         Joshua Myles
                                          Keith West
  Support Needs Subcommittee
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     Kevin Raber, Chair
     Shane Sullivan
     Keith West