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Academic & Research Computing Advisory Board
Meeting Minutes
June 25, 2001
Present: R. Mackert, Chair, A. Albritton, R. Baker, G. Bentley, R. Cibirka, V. Haywood, A. Hinton, M. Litaker, F. Omar, M. Owen, K. Rindt, K. Stephens, S. Vogel, C. White.
Absent: C. Billman, C. Cassels, D. Hatmaker, M. Miller
The meeting was called to order at 1:00 pm.
The minutes of the May 28, 2001 meeting were approved.
Anne Hinton was introduced as the new staff member-at-large of the Board.
Concern was noted regarding possible discontinuation of the POP3 mail server. Traditionally, this server has best accommodated Mac platform users. S. Vogel suggested implementing a transitional conversion to another server rather than an immediate shutdown.
Dr. Mike Gabridge (Director, MCG's Office of Biomedical Technology Transfer) was scheduled on August 27, 2001 to address the Board on the topics of intellectual properties with emphasis on ownership of web-based instructional materials.
R. Mackert reported from Becky Rogers and Doogie Howser regarding news servers, Listservs or other mechanisms for information dissemination suggested the use of newsgroups or listservs are not feasible to meet our needs. One possibility for faculty interaction with the Board might be the use of a web-based link through FAQ's or to Rod Mackert directly whereby he may bring the issues directly to the Board.
There was a general consensus that information access was a high priority and the search engine on the MCG web page could be improved. It was noted one issue that results in search difficulties is a lack of meta tags. The search engine "Google" was identified as being the best currently available and will search the MCG website alone if properly directed.
It was suggested that all documents transferred to the Board should be saved in an .rtf format that will result in a slightly larger file, however is more universally opened by programs other than Microsoft.
Anne Hinton noted "The Beeper" is now online as well as one of the reimbursement forms utilized by faculty. It is anticipated all forms will be available on-line shortly. It was suggested this type of information and other future technological improvements be disseminated to the faculty/staff. Discussion regarding the best mechanism to accomplish this resulted in suggestions of making this information available on the website in a position of high visibility (i.e. The opening page), hard mailed memos and described in "The Beeper".
R. Baker suggested ACAB solicit the faculty-at-large regarding feelings, opinions or frustrations with the current electronic environment.
R. Mackert has contacted Randy Butterbaugh regarding a Student Liaison Committee and its role in ACAB.
C. White suggested the ACAB members be added to the website. R. Mackert will forward an address list to the ACAB members for verification of information.
The next meeting of ACAB will be held at 1:00 pm on July 23, 2001 in room AB-211 in the Library.
The meeting was adjourned at 2:00 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Roman Cibirka
Secretary, Academic and Research Computing Advisory Board.