For 3/7/08 Staff Meeting

It is not our abilities that show who we truly are, but our choices.
Dumbledore.....

Penn and Teller Video

Riddle me this: Brian works at a place with thousands of products, some them very expensive. People take his products without paying for them - as many as they can carry - and then just walk out. All that Brian requests of his customers is that they keep their mouths shut. Where does Brian work?

• Budget recommendations will be coming out in a few weeks. they are going to reallocate budgets in the university.
• Job descriptions for all nonclassified positions are due to HR.
• No COPE/CEC luncheon this year
• Recognize the years of service folks - Matt Burch 10 years, Jim Dalley 10 years
• Talk to Tom Jackson about INRA budget - do we need something for INRA? Licensing?
• OC3 cutover date s still being decided.
• Get information about the Adobe Connect Server - can we add drives? Can we hook to the SAN? This is a go?
• Tony asking about making IE more accessible on the lab computers as IE7 is better and publisher online books are viewable in IE only.
• Michael to report on Moodle Developers Meeting
• Michael to report on ISU Moodle module of the day
• College of Ed wants to have a self service video classroom in their college and they will pay for it. Need cost estimate from Doyle.

• HB 543 - Idaho Education Network-
• Outsourcing of e-mail discussion getting serious/official - I'm going to be part of that formal discussion
• Vailas is going to make some budget decsions based on enrollment - Be prepared for a revolt from Colleges negatively affected
• Hiring all business officers in the various colleges
• TQM presentation to Jim's fin serv staff - Crumweighty, David A., Randy
• Position Description - and performance plans that will go with them
• Get dress code sheet from Jim and send to Randy
• Get with Randy as soon as the position descriptions are done - if not before, March 25th i will review with Randy
• Banner Aps Security is ready to hire
• Denial of service attack ended as quickly as it started
• OC3 upgrade - Packet Shaper is not the right unit. So we are waiting for a new packet shaper before upgrading to the OC3 - keep gamers and downloaders limited
• I2 traffic, at a snapshot in time, was 8meg sustained.
• Hans is there a DVD writer or a USB slot for a extra disk