CITPG Meeting Minutes

December 9, 2002, 2 p.m. Minard Hall, Room 120

Present: Altenburg, Barnhart, Egeberg, Grosen, Juell, Kloberdanz, Iversen, Nygard, Ross, Saini-Eidukat, Schlecht, and Wittrock

Minutes - The minutes for the December 2 meeting of CITPG were approved.

ITS Update

a. 27 responses to the Classroom Survey so far - deadline is 12/20/02, only 1 CITPG member responded so far.

b. Nancy L. and Sheere K. presented a paper at SIGUCCS on Student and Faculty support models and demo SPONGE -- see: http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/sponge/ and http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/tlc/

c. New partnership re: Web Surveys between the GDC and ITS will be announced in the next ITS HAPPENING. The partnership for surveys works out like this: 1. Instead of coding surveys for faculty and grad students from scratch on request, customers who contact Elizabeth Smith or Nancy Lilleberg will be informed of the GDC survey service. 2. Elizabeth and Nancy will help the GDC with whatever technical issues come up with their survey service. A couple of things they mentioned were help with password protecting surveys and figuring out a way that people only submit once. 3. Rather than just referring people to them, ITS might be asked to be part of the initial meeting with the user to determine best survey practices. 4. Elizabeth and Nancy may need to help Linda if she and her student help get overloaded with extra traffic, but we'd learn how to use their tools to do it. 5. Blackboard surveys will still be the best answer for faculty who want to survey their students for opinion, beliefs, etc where percentages of responses and text responses by question are the only types of data they need.

d. ITS is moving to additional testing of SquirrelMail. A link to the service will be placed on the SilkyMail site.

e. The MIS students who are working with Joe Latimer are in the process of developing a survey about Desktop Standards, the survey is scheduled for distribution early in the spring semester.

f. NDSU and UND as Internet2 members are now sponsoring the connection of the other nine NDUS institutions through the SEGP (Sponsored Education Group Participant) program. On the morning of December 10th changes will be made in two new StageNet routers to fully connect the rest of the NDUS to Internet2. The change will be transparent to most users; their IP traffic will just travel on a different path when destined for an Internet2 site. However the connection to Internet2 will permit many new opportunities for users at the NDUS sites. Internet2 connectivity also assists institutions in obtaining grants because of the increased capabilities it offers. One example is better quality video connections when communicating with other Internet2-connected sites. For those NDUS sites that have enabled multicast and have been able to receive multicast traffic from Internet2, they will now also be able to source multicast traffic to Internet2 and the world. Other examples are increased collaboration with researchers around the world; access to digital libraries that not only have text, but audio, video, animations, graphics and visualizations; and access to huge data sets. NDSU will be hosting another Internet 2 day in the Spring or Fall of 2003. Watch for the announcement of the date to mark your calendars. That will be another good opportunity to learn about the possibilities that Internet2 offers. In the December 4 issue of NDSU's internal newsletter, "It's Happening at State" there is an article about a partnership at NDSU that is using multicast for an archaeology initiative. The electronic version is available at: http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/news/state/ihas/2002/ihas.12042002.pdf and http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/news/state/ihas/. There is a wealth of information about Internet2 at www.internet2.edu. And there is more specific information related to the SEGP program at http://k20.internet2.edu/. For example the infokit page http://k20.internet2.edu/about/infokit.html has a link to a presentation that has some SEGP overview info towards the end. There are both HTML and powerpoint versions of the presentation: http://k20.internet2.edu/files/ppt_html/i2k20_overview.htm and http://k20.internet2.edu/files/ppt/i2k20_overview.ppt. Sandy Sprafka (sandy.sprafka@ndsu.nodak.edu) has been working on several SEGP related projects and would be a good contact for current project info or for discussing new project ideas. Kevin Danielson (kevin_danielson@mail.und.nodak.edu) and Bruce Curtis (bruce.curtis@ndsu.nodak.edu) are the contacts for technical questions about Internet2 and how it works.

g. Announcements

Rosi Kloberdanz and Dave Wittrock will be presenting at University Senate. Rosi will present some of the budget and other information she presented to CITPG on October 14, 2002. Dave will present information on the current activities of CITPG
Agriculture has been working on a desktop standards initiative for a year. On Friday, December 6 VP Jensen convened a meeting of Agriculture personnel, including department heads, R. Kloberdanz and D. Wittrock attended the meeting. An overview of the rationale for a standard and some preliminary information on how the standard would work were presented. The department heads approved continued development of the standard.
The IT Planning group met on Friday, December 6. The goal was to begin translating the IT Plan into a tactical plan. The Governor has announced that NDSU can expect a flat budget for the next biennium, none of the initiatives that were proposed by NDSU are likely to be funded. This means that new services will need to be paid for by reducing current services or making current serviced delivery more efficient. IT Planning members have been asked to identify initiative that are mission critical.
The Vice Presidents’ Open Forum on It is scheduled for Wednesday, December 11 at 8:30am in the Ballroom of the Memorial Union.
All of the subcommittees are fully staffed and have begun meeting (or will do so soon).

Meeting adjourned at 2:55 p.m.