December 2005

December 14, 2005 (Wednesday) (normal day of month)
MVR 114. (normal location)
Noon - 1:30pm (normal time)
Contact Co-Chairs Rich Jaenson <rjj6> or Janet Heslop <jch6>.

Updates and welcome, with introductions around the table (~10 minutes). Updates and announcements include:

CCD Exec Cmt. briefings. Others briefings might include: DDS/ITMC briefing. SIGs updates. Other standing topics. Known items: <any?>

Main topics:

The agenda topics are as follows:
* Tracy Mitrano will provide an update on current and future IT policies.
* Tracy and Diane Kubarek will talk about Web accessibility
issues; more from the physical programming side rather than the
policy side. Diane's group has established a blog web site for
discussing issues regarding Web Accessibility and she encourages
everyone to take a look at the blog before the CCD meeting to help
generate discussion. It can be found at
http://web.cornell.edu/redesign/blog/?p=104
* Share your ideas -- time set aside for discussion among your CCD peers.

What's on your mind? [10 minutes, or remainder of meeting]
Provide time to share with each other things that are on our minds, in order to facilitate sharing and support among our peers.

November 2005

November 9, 2005 (Wednesday) (normal day of month)
MVR 114. (normal location)
Noon - 1:30pm (normal time)
Contact Co-Chairs Rich Jaenson <rjj6> or Janet Heslop <jch6>.

Updates and welcome, with introductions around the table (~10 minutes). Updates and announcements include:

CCD Exec Cmt. briefings. Others briefings might include: DDS/ITMC briefing. SIGs updates. Other standing topics. Known items: <any?>

Main topics:

12:10-12:30

What's on your mind?  Time to share with your peers things that are on your minds -- to facilitate sharing/support amongst CCD's.

12:30-1:00
Todd Olson will summarize the benefits the new listserv system - Lyris - brings to Cornell and how the migration has been going.  Todd will provide an introduction to the Lyris web interface, demonstrate how much easier it will be to administer an e-list and explain any differences a list administrator may encounter.

1:00-1:30
Laurie Collinsworth will talk about the DNSDB dates of interest and how they will impact network administrators.  She will discuss how the "dates of interest" work will enhance the DNSDB, NUBB and the Network Registry process.  Steve Schuster will also be available for questions pertaining to Network Quarantine.


We look forward to seeing you there!

Rich and Janet, Co-Chairs, on behalf of the CCD Exec. Cmt.

October 2005

October 12, 2005 (Wednesday) (normal day of month)
MVR 114. (normal location)
Noon - 1:30pm (normal time)
Contact Co-Chair Rich Jaenson <rjj6>.

Updates and welcome, with introductions around the table (~10 minutes). Updates and announcements include:

CCD Exec Cmt. briefings. Others briefings might include: DDS/ITMC briefing. SIGs updates. Other standing topics. Known items: <any?>

Main topics:

Ideas, anyone?

What's on your mind? [10 minutes, or remainder of meeting]
Provide time to share with each other things that are on our minds, in order to facilitate sharing and support among our peers.

September 2005

September 14, 2005 (Wednesday) (normal day of month)
401 Warren Hall. (This is //NOT// our normal location.)
Noon - 2:00pm (normal start time, but 2 hours instead of 1.5 hours.)
Contact Co-Chair Oliver Habicht <oh10>.

Updates and welcome, with introductions around the table (~10 minutes). Updates and announcements include:

CCD Exec Cmt. briefings. Others briefings might include: DDS/ITMC briefing. SIGs updates. Other standing topics. Known items: <any?>

Main topics:

CCD Co-Chair nominees introduce themselves. (10 minutes)

One Co-Chair is elected from and by the CCD membership each September. Elections, via emai,l will follow this meeting.

IT Career Resources and IT Management Issues [5/10/05] [~1.5 hours]

• Career development: CIT's activities for CIT staff (Linda Croll, 5/13/05))
  • Mark Mara shared the concept of staff exchanges. "Cornell Innovation Council" idea. [9/15/04]
• ITMC's IT Professional Development Committee (Frank Strickland, Chair; 5/13/05)
  itmc.cit.cornell.edu/cornell_edu/ITMC/IT_professional/index.cfm
• If sufficient time: Succession planning within an IT department: How best to prepare for and manage departure of long-term IT staff? Share stategies for backing up IT staff who are temporarily away, particularly for smaller departments.
• 1pm:
  Paths for IT professionals: IT career(s) at Cornell (and elsewhere?)
  • EDUCAUSE: Resources, membership, and related networking opportunities. (Polley McClure, confirmed 5/26/05) [10-15 minutes]
• Retirement planning
  • HR benefits: Mary Zielinski and Senior Retirement Specialist, Bill Douglas. (5/16/05)
  • Advice from "seasoned" CCD members. :-)

What's on your mind? [10 minutes.]
Provide time to share with each other things that are on our minds, in order to facilitate sharing and support among our peers.

August 2005

August 10, 2005 (Wednesday) (normal day of month)
MVR 114, Rushmore Conference Rm (normal location)
Noon - 1:30pm (normal time)
Contact Co-Chair Oliver Habicht <oh10>.

Updates and welcome, with introductions around the table (~15 minutes). Updates and announcements include:

CCD Exec Cmt. briefings. Others briefings might include: DDS/ITMC briefing. SIGs updates. Other standing topics. Known items:

Announce CCD Co-Chair elections process for September meeting: Seek nominations.

Main topics:

Project briefings from CIT staff (just over an hour)

Jim Howell <jwh2>. (Idea from Polley, 5/26/05; Confirmed 7/7/05) (35 minutes)

1. Alternate Email ID project: A new CIT investigation.
2. Pilot projects: Handheld computing at Cornell: CIT's email and calendaring services on devices such as a Blackberry and Treo (Palm OS).
   • Push: Pilot testing Conciliate server.
   • Pull: Various options.

Steve Schuster, CIT IT Security. (15 minutes) (Confirmed 7/11/05)

1. NUBB/ Network registry synchronization project: status (7/6/05).
2. Network Quarantine: status (7/6/05).
3. Shibboleth: Status regarding actual and planned use on campus (7/11/05).
4. Concept review: What in theory can VPN do for your unit? A security (non-operational) perspective.
5. PKI investigations status, in partnership with Mark Mara's group (Advanced Technology and Architectures), next on agenda.

Mark Mara, Advanced Technology and Architectures. (15 minutes)

Briefing us on various CIT projects at different levels of maturity. Examples include:

1. Status of ATA's PKI investigations, in partnership with Steve Schuster's group (IT Security) (see above).
2. Along with Rick MacDonald (Systems and Operations), there is currently a tentative investigation in what it would take to provide central, networked file storage/ distributed file system (CU Disk Project). (Topic from Polley, 5/26/05)
3. ATA's investigation on whether an appropriate enterprise solution exists to address campus workflow issues (via Kuali, perhaps), in partnership with Dave Kohler's group (Information Systems).

What's on your mind? (Try to do this for at least 10 minutes.)
Provide time to share with each other things that are on our minds, in order to facilitate sharing and support among our peers.

July 2005

July 13, 2005 (Wednesday) (normal day of month)
MVR 114, Rushmore Conference Rm (normal location)
Noon - 1:30pm (normal time)
Contact Co-Chair Oliver Habicht <oh10>.

Updates and welcome, with introductions around the table. Updates and announcements include (total ~20 minutes):

Briefing on CIT's investigation and experiences with IPTV and Voice over IP (VoIP) technologies, Dave Vernon. (7/7/05). [We're doing this first thing.]

CCD Exec Cmt. briefings. Others briefings might include: DDS/ITMC briefing. SIGs updates. Other standing topics.

Known items:
Announce CIT's AVDB for all Schedule 25 rooms (Sunny): http://avdb.cit.cornell.edu/avdbsecure/index.cfm

Remind folks of forthcoming NUBB/ Network registry synchronization project status meeting this month. (Sunny).

Main topics:

Status of MS and Adobe s/w licensing Q&A. ITMC Software Acquisition Cmt. member, and CIT S/W Acquisition manager, Charles Jessop. (confirmed 7/8/05). [~45 minutes]

Review priorities for upcoming CCD meetings. Two hour meeting for September? [~15 minutes]

What's on your mind?
Provide time to share with each other things that are on our minds, in order to facilitate sharing and support among our peers.

June 2005

June 8, 2005 (Wednesday) (normal day of month)
MVR 114, Rushmore Conference Rm (normal location, as of Feb'05.)
Noon - 12:45pm (shorter meeting than usual!)
Contact Co-Chair Rich Jaenson <rjj6>. (Oliver Habicht will be out of town.)

Updates and welcome, with introductions around the table (~10 minutes). Updates and announcements include:

CCD Exec Cmt. briefings. Others briefings might include: DDS/ITMC briefing. SIGs updates. Other standing topics. Known items:

GuestID Services: Kevin Baradet. (5/10/05)

Main topics:

What do you want to discuss in July and August CCD meetings, and beyond?

Note: CIT will be offering Career Development Information Sessions, open to CCD members. One of the two sessions is the same day as our meeting, and starts at 1pm. Therefore, we'll end our meeting at 12:45.

http://www.ccd.cornell.edu/docs/2005/20050512_llc36.htm

End at 12:45pm.

May 2005

May 11, 2005 (Wednesday) (normal day of month)
MVR 114, Rushmore Conference Rm (normal location, as of Feb'05.)
Noon - 1:30pm (normal time)
Contact Co-Chair Oliver Habicht <oh10>.

Updates and welcome, with introductions around the table (~10 minutes). Updates and announcements include:

CCD Exec Cmt. briefings. Others briefings might include: DDS/ITMC briefing. SIGs updates. Other standing topics. Known items:

Dell bundle updates. (Keith Boncek)
Net-Print: Any CCD needs or action desired? (Oliver Habicht)

Main topics

Discussion: CIT's Oracle DB service idea. (~5 minutes overview, with 20(?) minute discussion)
With Tony Damiani <ard1>.

Tony Damiani writes: We(CIT/IS) recently have gotten formal approval to begin hosting an oracle databases service for campus. We would like to come to the ccd meeting sometime and give a quick overview of it (5minutes) and then have a discussion with the group about how it will/should work. [4/13/05]

Program Plan Review:IT Security (~30 minutes)
Steve Schuster kindly agreed to share his group's plan for the next year with the CCDs.

What's on your mind? (Try to do this for at least 10 minutes.)
Provide time to share with each other things that are on our minds, in order to facilitate sharing and support among our peers.

April 2005

April 13, 2005 (Wednesday)
MVR 114, Rushmore Conference Rm [Use the MVR entrance nearest Warren Hall (the building where we met during 2004), and it's just down that hallway on the left, just before the stairwell.]
Noon - 1:30pm (normal time)
Contact Co-Chair Oliver Habicht <oh10>.

Updates and welcome, with introductions around the table (~10 minutes). Updates and announcements include:

CCD Exec Cmt. briefings. Others briefings might include: DDS/ITMC briefing (Sunny not attending this month). SIGs updates. Other standing topics.

Update on Guest ID service. Kevin Baradet and Anita Henry-Wilkins. The CU committee working on this topic hopes to have the specifications document completed within a couple weeks, as of 2/15/05. [Neither was able to attend, unfortunately.]

ITMC Dell Bundle update and status (Keith Boncek, 5 minutes).

Main topics

Discussion: What is a Wiki Good For? (~10 minutes demo, with 10 minute discussion?)

What a wiki can do for you. Showcase what it can do for the CU community and your own units. (Not implementation details: Those will be left as an excercise for the attendee.) Oliver Habicht will try to arrange a 5 minute demo for those of us who haven't engaged with a wiki yet.

http://netadminwiki.ece.cornell.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Cornell Unofficial Network Admin WIKI [CU NetID required]

Verifying emails signed with PGP, Thawte (free, "web of trust"), and other technologies.[3/2/05] Steve Schuster will get the conversation started with a brief overview of the alternatives. If time permits, we can discuss web certificates and the like. A presentation is scheduled for a future TSPF.

Automating NUBB. Idea: Discuss among CCDs, with CIT contributing (who in CIT? Perhaps NCS and/or SysOps).
And what do the ResHalls do? [12/1/05]

What's on your mind? (Try to do this for at least 10 minutes.)
Provide time to share with each other things that are on our minds, in order to facilitate sharing and support among our peers.

March 2005

March 9, 2005 (Wednesday)
MVR 114, Rushmore Conference Rm [Use the MVR entrance nearest Warren Hall (the building where we met during 2004), and it's just down that hallway on the left, just before the stairwell.]
Noon - 1:30pm (normal time)
Contact Co-Chair Oliver Habicht <oh10>.
Tentative schedule:

Updates and welcome, with introductions around the table (~10 minutes). Updates and announcements include:

CCD Exec Cmt. briefings. Others briefings might include: DDS/ITMC briefing. SIGs updates. Other standing topics.

Update on Network Registry, Steve Schuster. (CIT).
Include status on available tools and how compliance is going. Any considerations regarding enforcement at this time, or will CIT continue its full facilitation track.

Dell bundle selection update. Keith Boncek.

Dell service options, with an emphasis on warranty services. Keith Boncek.

Main discussion topic: Software licensing at Cornell. (~50 minutes) [from 5/12/04]

Report from the newly formed ITMC Software Acquisition Committee, chaired by Dean Krafft (confirmed, 2/9/05). Two issues that feedback from the CCDs might be helpful with:

1) We're wrestling with trying to figure out how to include some university-wide financial benefits into how site licenses get funded. Examples include: savings from reduced university audit liability due to site licensing; reduced purchasing costs relative to individual license purchases; an "academic benefit" - students can use site licensed software for research and instructional projects that they would not have been able to afford directly. Thoughts on how to turn this into "real dollars" to fund license purchases would be great.

2) There's an issue of communication between SAS [Software Acquisition Services] and the Cornell community. Ideally, CIT (or someone) should run a website that gets people to the cheapest way to get any piece of software, whether it is through a SAS site license, a department site license or shared purchase, the campus store, or some general academic discount price (e.g. NY State Contract price). Chuck is looking at putting together a website for some of this, but ideas and suggestions would be very helpful. The other way we need to go is to find out what we are "missing". Are there software products out there that should be site licensed, but aren't.

(20 minutes) Regarding centrally-supported software licensing, overview of the Software Acquisition Services (SAS) function and review of the current "business rules" for deciding what software is appropriate for CIT to support the licensing efforts for procuring. Discuss CIT's interest in identifying a decision-making body for determining what software should be selected for centrally administered campus licensing. (Chuck Jessop and Wes Kahle, both confirmed 2/9/05)

[New idea, 2/9/05] Provide feedback to a proposal for a combination of Microsoft unit-level Campus Agreement licensing and a general Microsoft Select program. Is this OK, Chuck? If so, should we divide the time we've budgeted for this between presentation and discussion? Is a MS campus visit desirable, and if so, will CIT coordinate such a visit and who should attend?

What is CU Purchasing's role in this context? (Glen Morey, confirmed, 2/9/05)

Do the CCDs have a role?

What's on your mind? (Try to do this for at least 10 minutes.)
Provide time to share with each other things that are on our minds, in order to facilitate sharing and support among our peers.

February 2005

February 9, 2005 (Wednesday)
MVR 114, Rushmore Conference Rm [NEW LOCATION! Use the MVR entrance nearest Warren Hall (the building where we have been meeting), and it's just down that hallway on the left, just before the stairwell.]
Noon - 1:30pm (normal time)
Contact Co-Chair Oliver Habicht <oh10>.

Updates and welcome, with introductions around the table (~20 minutes). Updates and announcements include:

CCD Exec Cmt. briefings. Others briefings might include: DDS/ITMC briefing. SIGs updates.

Update on Network Registry, Steve Schuster (CIT). [wasn't able to attend]
Include status on available tools and how compliance is going. Any considerations regarding enforcement at this time, or will CIT continue its full facilitation track.

ITMC's Best Practices subcommittee, Anita Henry-Wilkins. The subcommittee is soliciting feedback from the CCDs and NetAdmins on what has currently been identified as a best practice.
http://www.ccd.cornell.edu/docs/
2/7/05 2005/ITMC_Best_Practices_1-31-05.doc

Update from Mark Mara, CIT, Advanced Technologies & Architectures.
(1) Status of web services effort. (2) Work flow investigation regarding financial systems. (3) Gartner opportunity.

Update from Andrea Beesing on Identity Management initiatives. (1) NetID password complexity enforcement. (2) Review of campus provisioning services and practices, with representation requested for two-day workshop in early April.

CU IT Procurement briefing: Update on ITMC's Dell Bundle Selection process. (Oliver Habicht)

Main meeting topic (~50 minutes)
Discussion of web design and support options at Cornell.

Overview of the Cornell context regarding this topic. In order to facilitate discussion, 5 minute (max.) briefings each from:

• Cornell's Director of the Office of Web Communications, Diane Kubarek (Cornell Media Relations). Diane will explain the role of the Office of Web Communications on campus in shaping Cornell's overall web presence.

• Overview of CU's recent licensing of PaperThin's CommonSpot product (a Content Management System, or CMS) by the CommonSpot SIG. Oya Rieger, David DeMello, and other key contributors such as Al Gonzales, Nathan Reimer, Paul Davis, Eric Fredericksen, etc.

• CIT Distributed Learning Services's Web Production Group, (Al Gonzalez <ag262>, Eric Fredericksen) within the context of web design, technical support, and hosting.

• CCD members sharing their experiences. This may include members whose units staff their own web design, technical support, and/ or hosting services. Also valuable will be CCD members sharing their experiences utilizing the services profiled above, or other services on and off campus. Examples of other services includes ILR's web production services group (at least, in the past) and off-campus outsourced services (e.g. Spider Graphics, others?).

As the above context is provided, we expect the subsequent discussion on the topic of web design and support options at Cornell to emerge naturally. :-)

What's on your mind? (Try to do this for at least 15 minutes.)
Provide time to share with each other things that are on our minds, in order to facilitate sharing and support among our peers.

January 2005

January 12, 2004 (Wednesday)
401 Warren Hall, noon - 1:30pm (normal time and location)
Contact Co-Chair Rich Jaenson <rjj6>.
Tentative schedule:

Updates and welcome, with introductions around the table (<10 minutes)

CCD Exec Cmt. Others briefings might include: CU IT Procurement review. DDS briefing. Technical Architecture for Administrative Computing. SIGs updates.

Update on Network Registry, Steve Schuster (CIT).
Include status on available tools and how compliance is going. Any considerations regarding enforcement at this time, or will CIT continue its full facilitation track?

Main meeting topic:
Discussion to formulate constructive feedback on annual CIT's Strategic Plan review.
CCD members should be prepared to express issues in their areas that are currently troublesome or in some way causing problems or extra efforts. These issues don't necessarily have to be related
to CIT or even IT, but the hope is that by bringing up these issues we can identify areas of "commonality". For example, how do issues of providing, seeking out and getting responses to help desk
inquiries affect all of us.

What's on your mind? (Try to do this for at least 15 minutes.)
Provide time to share with each other things that are on our minds, in order to facilitate sharing and support among our peers.