Present: Simon, Schmidt, Sapio, Phillips, Haley, Padalino, Shanahan, Johnston, Baldwin, Bearden, Rivenburgh, Chichester, Sancilio

Absent: Cook, Blood, Caren

Welcome Steve Padalino to replace B. Ristow as the Provost representative.

M. Blood not present, B. Simon asked for volunteer for minutes. S. Chichester volunteered.

S. Chichester made a suggestion that the minutes be posted on web site and also distributed via e-mail to CTAG-L and to B. Dixon. No opposition - so we will do this.

D. Baldwin - Report from the Universally Available & Maintained Software subcommittee. Doug pointed out that they changed the name of their committee from having the wording "Standardized software" to "Universally Available & Maintained Software". The reasoning behind this was that the group does not want to mandate use of particular software but say that the software will be supported by CIT and universally available. A survey is in the final stages of development and needs to be reviewed by the subcommittee. A post spring break distribution is planned. A general discussion about anti-virus software took place. S. Chichester surveyed DDC-L to ask who already has it. Psychology, Sociology, CIT and most of Admin & Finance departments have purchased for each faculty/staff member. This does leave 1000+ computers without it. B. Simon brought us Norton System Works as an alternative. It costs more but maybe it is worth the bucks. S. Chichester will further investigate this suggestion. A motion to make a formal recommendation to the Provost (copying all VPs) on anti-virus software was made by D. Baldwin. Seconded by J. Bearden. All in favor. No opposed. No abstentions. A discussion on the possible sale to the students was also discussed.

S. Chichester - Report from the Network Infrastructure subcommittee. This subcommittee has taken on some additional members. Tom Bell from CAS, Gary Girardet/Steve Benchik from Facilities Services and Jerry Burns from Telecommunications. The committee has completed needs for the future assessments from CIT, Library, Facilities, CAS and Telecommunications. As far as network infrastructure goes, the #1 priority is to increase the college bandwidth to the Internet with a fractional T3. CIT put in a proposal through the college budget process for funding to have this in place for Fall 2000. S. Chichester also mentioned that many of our buildings have older wire in them making it not possible for desktops wired with the old wire to operate at the faster 100 Mbps speed. A proposal for premise wire was submitted through the college budget process by CIT. Both T3 and premise wiring were identified as needs through the needs assessment. Our fiber plant was also identified as a need. Telecommunications brought up a underground cable plant audit project. The network infrastructure subcommittee is in the process of writing a proposal to possible fast-track this project.

B. Simon - Brought up involving the college community with the committee's activities. The existence of Techtalk-L was mentioned. This list is not widely used.

B. Simon - Academic calendar issue was brought up. The idea that it is tough to continue to accomplish things in Dec/Jan and May-August. Working over e-mail/ virtual meeting, meeting with who can come were brought up.

Open Discussion

Possible new topics - Legal issues, student access, requiring laptops and technology in our teaching spaces were all brought up.

Some discussion about the cost of staying on the cutting edge of technology.

Meeting adjourned 3:15pm.