CAM Computing Committee - Operational Sub-committee

Notes from meeting 12th December 2004

Venue: BT1.08 at 1000

Present: Jim Briggs (Chair), Steve Broadbent, Alex Counsell, Alison White, Ed Kopinski

Apologies: Les Black

Previous meeting's notes

Agenda Notes Action Status

Actions carried forward

Actions completed are noted in the minutes of the previous meeting.    

Outstanding requests/orders: software

     

Outstanding requests/orders: hardware

     

ProTools

Purchase of this is on hold pending roll-forward allocations.    

Strategy/policy

     

Perception

The technical support issues surrounding Perception still pose problems. It was agreed that this was really OLAG's problem, not ours. JSB to write to Sue Sayce and Frank Margrave Pending input from AW and EK

Major projects

     

Operational issues

     

Online assessment

JSB agreed to ask Mandy Strahan to make sure that the labs are informed of the dates and times of online assessment. JSB Done

Any other business

     

3ds max

Tie to AutoCAD not feasible. Look at upgrading 40-50 licences only.    

Disk quota

From semester 2, it should be possible to allocate extra disk space to students from the SAN.    

Printing

No holds on (colour) jobs. If the student has no quota, the job is deleted.    

New facilities

Can now scan and print A3 documents in Merc House.    

Merc House reception area

ISO has given the go-ahead for the restructuring of the Merc House reception area. It is hoped that the work will happen at Easter.    

Comms lab

Andy Bain has been enquiring about extending the Comms Lab.    

Date of next meeting

Tuesday 11th January at 1100 in BT1.08 (JSB's office)