Desktop Computing Team Meeting

2/17/98

Last department meeting:             Next meeting: 3/2/98

 

AGENDA:

1. Review progress on:

• web editing/publishing (HomePage? Composer? others?) "Web SWAT Team" (Bob)
  • have been meeting and will continue to do so; no recommendations yet
• Documentation for restarting servers; that is, Shiva dial-in/TopClass (Paula and Justin)
  • nothing yet.
• Oswego visit (Justin, et al) and testing of "Assimilator", At-Ease, and the Claris NetManagement software from the "Fool Proof" folks.
  • visit scheduled for 3/5/98

2. Software to be included in lifecycle budget

• $100,000 in life-cycle budget includes installation costs, servers, software, printers and other "peripherals"
  
  
• Basic software to be included with every new computer (200):

Software Type	Item cost	Total Cost
Wordprocessing/Spreadsheet (MS Office)	$75	$15,000
Email	Freeware	0
Timbuktu*	25	5,000
Calendaring/Scheduler/TO-DOs (Eudora Planner)	60	12,000
Web browers (Netscape, MS Explorer)	Freeware	0
Telenet, FTP, NetNews	Freeware	0
Total	$160	$32,000

* We will purchase a 50-pack of Timbuktu for Windows with ISD funds to address immediate needs for this product.

• Printer replacment (5-year cycle?)

  Assuming 150 printers on campus, 30 would need to be replaced each year @ $1,500 each

  Total: $45,000

• Installation costs

  200 computers to be installed @ 4hrs each = 800 hrs x $10/hr = $8,000 + $2,000 error margin

  Total: $10,000

3. Desktop Computing (proposed) projects that have not been started:

• Cross-platform calendar/scheduling project (see FMPro item)
• TCP/IP-based conferencing service project (see FMPro item)
• Faculty-oriented facilty project (see FMPro item)

Around the table

Next meeting: Monday 3/2/98

References:

• Our Department mission 
• Departmental priorities
• Departmental policies/processes/procedures
• 97-98 Planning (interview reports, etc)

Contact: R. Jewett (Email: jewettrj@potsdam.edu)