Agenda

Notes

Action

Status

Name of committee

To avoid confusion with the name of the School, and to bring us in line with the name of the corresponding Faculty committee, we are now the Computing and Multimedia IT Committee.

This and the new structure of CAM are reflected in the new Terms of Reference.

Minutes of last meeting

The minutes of the meeting on 27th May 2005 were reviewed and approved.

Matters arising

Budget

JSB reported on the budget situation. On the figures given, it is estimated that we have a budget this year of £80,000. This amount does not cover items specifically for CT as they have a separate allocation. AC commented on a need for CT to buy more cameras but it was agreed that this was solely a CT issue.

Policy

The equipment replacement strategy was reviewed in the light of the budget situation. It was agreed that there was no immediate need to replace lab PCs this year and that the budget should be carried over to next year. However, it was anticipated that a problem would arise next year if the budget continued to be at the same low level.

ISO report

EK reported that there have been major problems with the L drive and cluster. There appears to be problems with saving large files and databases. Some users are able to save to C drive and then copy to L drive without problems. There is an imminent meeting with IT Coordinators, ISO Managers and a representative from Novell to try to resolve the problem.

He also reported that there is and urgent need to upgrade the network client across the University, particularly in the CAM area. SB noted that it is important for staff to log off at the end of each day otherwise they will not get the upgrade.

IS Review of potential priorities for the future has been presented in various forms to the Faculty IT Committee. 2006/2007 proposals have been communicated. EK to send the URL to Jim to go with Minutes.

EK to send URL to JSB

SOC report

JSB reported that the new Head of the School of Computing, Ajit Narayanan, is settling into his post. He reported the successful validation of the MSc Forensic IT which is a considerable collaboration with ICJS. AN is committed to making this a success.

There are some new courses for validation in the New Year, including MSc Information Technology.

In future, first year programming is going to use Python in Semester 1.

CT report

GB was not present.

Any other business

AW requested information on Maths's needs for labs. It was the view of the Committee that Maths would deal with ISO directly re: software for students, etc.

Date of next meeting

To be arranged in the Spring term