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ITS:Division Meeting Notes from Monday, November 2, 2015

Posted by on November 7, 2015

Thanks once again to Dave Armstrong for taking notes at Monday’s division meeting!

And now, the notes:

Vish led the meeting.

  1. Campus Safety Update – Maggie Santos, new Director of Campus Safety spoke
    1. Thanks to Eric for his tech support thus far.
    2. Thanks for getting the camera systems – have helped to solve 3-5 crimes/month.
    3. She would appreciate it if we let her know what other technology options or services we can provide her.
    4. If we see something that needs Campus Safety’s attention – let her know.
    5. Goal is emergency preparedness.
    6. Will arrange some table-top programs this year to prepare for active shooter incident.
    7.  Will need someone from ITS: to be involved in that.
    8. Will also conduct some ‘active shooter’ response training for students and staff before end of 2015.
    9. Very open to suggestions!
  2. Vish welcomed Angie and Veneesh as new staff members.
  3. Kudos to:
    1. Sean from Danna and from Dan Wiencek.
    2. Dave Z. and Dan Raney from Randy for help with Crestron/network interfacing.
    3. Chad and Linda from Brian for many positive stories about ITS: in the Catalyst.
    4. Joe from Jim Schulz for Mac help.
    5. Gerald from Brian for passing the Apple Certification.
  4. Dave Ziemba updated us on the status of the network upgrade.
    1. Bore under I-25/railroad is completed.
    2. Techs from Front Range Gigapop will be connecting our cable to the main fiber within the next few weeks.
    3. Spoke of “raspberry pies” – small devices that are stand-ins for a student computers and can measure connectivity quality more accurately than others we have available.
  5. The Discussion Topic: “What Do You Want/Need from Division Meetings, Linda Petro?”  was not discussed due to the absense of …Linda Petro.
    1. Brian gave us the assignment to think about this for our next meeting.
    2. All ran for the exits.

Submitted by
David Armstrong

ITS:Always fun, never boring
Respectfully submitted,
Linda Petro

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