CITPG Meeting Minutes

March 31, 2003, 2 p.m. Minard Hall, Room 120

Present: Egeberg, Grosen, J. Kapaun, S. Kapaun, Kloberdanz, Latimer, Pikalek, Ross, Saini-Eidukat, Schlecht, Tareski, and Wittrock

  1. Minutes - The minutes for the March 24 meeting of CITPG were approved.

 

  1. ITS Update
    1. There is a paper entitled “Computer and Network Security and Higher Education's Core Values” available on the Educause site. http://www.educause.edu/ecar/
    2. The Novell migration is continuing.  Elizabeth Smith has been assigned to take over project management for the migration.  IT counselors in individual departments will help lead the process.
    3. There has been an exponential increase in Spam, which is causing an increased workload.  An optional filtering device was introduced several months ago and users have been satisfied.  CITPG has been asked to discuss whether this should be implemented on a global basis.  We will add it to the agenda for a future meeting. (see: http://www.ndsu.edu/its/index.php?ArtID=216.)
    4. ITS is receiving weekly notices of security vulnerabilities and is looking for a mechanism to communicate this information to this campus.  We will also discuss this issue at a future meeting,

 

  1. Cluster Software Upgrades
    1. The Cluster Technology Subcommittee presented a list of cluster software upgrades for the Fall 2003 academic term.  The committee voted to circulate this list to the university community.

 

  1. Desktop Standards
    1. The desktop standards taskforce circulated a new draft of the baseline standards, it can be found at: http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/latimer/desktop.  There will be open forums held on April 7 and April 10 at 9:00 a.m. in the Century Theater.

Meeting adjourned at 3:18 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

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