CITPG Meeting Minutes

May 12, 2003, 2 p.m.

Minard Hall, Room 120

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

  1. Minutes - The minutes for the May 5 meeting of CITPG were approved.

 

  1. ITS Update
    1. ITS is beginning to prepare for the institution accreditation process which will occur in 2006.
    2. J. Ross asked whether there was interest on campus for a general purpose UNIX host.  Several members suggested that this would have many benefits to their departments.  A motion was made that “CITPG should set up a task force to evaluate the need and set up the requirements for a general purpose UNIX host.”  The recommendation was passed unanimously.  The task force will consist of P. Juell, J. Latimer, J Kapaun, J. Grosen, N. Schlecht, and a representative from the College of Engineering and Architecture to be named later.

 

  1. Other Announcements
    1. J. Kapaun, S. Kapaun, Schlecht, and Tareski will be attending the MSUM conference on wireless technology.  The Provost’s office will pay for their registration for the conference.  They will provide a report to CITPG following their attendance.
    2. A draft of the CITPG Annual Report for 2002-03 was circulated.  Members were asked to review the report and provide comments, corrections, and additions.

 

  1. Desktop Standards Update
    1. J. Latimer presented the latest version of the Desktop Standards document.  This version incorporates feedback that came from the two open forums that were held recently.  The current plan for the standards is for the task force has three goals.  1). To conduct a physical inventory of campus computers during the summer months with the goal of determining how close the campus is to the proposed standard.   2.) To announce to the campus the start of a pilot project in the fall of 2003.  This pilot project will have the goal of equipping all new faculty computers in the fall with the proposed baseline.  3.) To begin developing a plan for informing the campus of a complete conversion to the standard.  The task force’s goals were given the unanimous support of CITPG.

 

  1. Election of a Chair for 2003-04
    1. J. Latimer and D. Wittrock were nominated for the position of CITPG chair for 2003-04.  Wittrock said he would serve for one more year if he could obtain an extension of his appointment to the committee from the Graduate School.  Latimer declined the nomination and Wittrock was elected by acclamation.

 

Meeting adjourned at 3:16 p.m.