Instructional Academic Computing Committee

Minutes

March 8, 2007
Meeting in AH-1120 at 2 p.m.
John Ross and James Frazee, Co-Chairs

Border Firewall - John Ross
The border firewall activation went well according to Academic Affairs. John Ross and John Denune are working on the remaining tasks: getting official approval for all exemptions; running fresh Foundstone scans of exempted systems and making sure that vulnerabilities are addressed; and creating a communication plan for systems that send password and account information in cleartext (ftp, Apple file protocol, etc.). A longer-term goal is to review "provisional" approvals to see which exemptions could be eliminated by moving applications to other servers, or applying a different technology

John Ross indicated that no expedited requests are being done currently. Rather modifications and deletions can be handled via email to firewall@sdsu.edu. The original database was just for the activation and was never intended as a full blown WO system. He is forwarding additions to existing systems to John Denune. John Ross has a 24 hour turnaround on the items he sends to John Denune, while John Denune stated his turnaround is 5 to 10 working days unless its an emergency. A reminder: All firewall rules are IP based, so please keep that in mind when sending in changes.

Other IT News - Felecia Vlahos
Felecia Vlahos mentioned her recent meeting with the IT auditors, as their recommendation is for a single email server on each campus. While they could understand separating student from faculty/staff mail services, the auditors were amazed at the proliferation of email servers at SDSU. Felecia also stated that the IT Managers committee has an email and a calendaring subcommittee looking at replacements for Eudora and Meeting Maker.

Felecia announced Counter Spy Training on March 21st from 8 to 3 p.m. in Ext. Studies 207.

ITS update - Jim Julius
Events coming soon are:

CTL lunch

• ITS Honors Faculty TechStars - on March 12th in the Faculty-Staff Club at 11:30 a.m. IT staff is welcome; please see http://ctl.sdsu.edu to make a reservation.

Kyoto Laureate Symposium

• March 15th, 9:30 in Montezuma Hall; ITS will assist with multimedia support and web streaming of the presentation; see http://events.sdsu.edu/text/13_1868_Kyoto-Laureate-Symposium/ for more information.

This Summer is shaping up to see ITS doing upgrades for some Classic Smart classrooms, working on a 150 seat video conferencing room in Adams Humanities, developing a new Smart Classroom in P 144, and (potentially) developing Smart classrooms at College Square (the second floor above the Lindo Paseo Starbucks). ITS is also involved with the pICT Fellowship summer institute to help faculty redesign courses to integrate more online activity.

ATI - Jim Julius
The Accessible Technology Initiative has three parts: web accessibility, instructional materials access, and procurement. There is a new tool on campus for web accessibility called Hi Software and training is included. The tool includes a server-based component for scanning sites for accessibility (AccMonitor) as well as tools for developers to use when creating, testing, and updating websites (AccVerify and AccRepair). We also have a tool called HiCaption to assist with captioning of web-based video. Cyndi Chie is organizing in-person training on these products for March 19th and 20th and will be sending out notices soon.

Next IACC meeting - April 12, 2007 in AH-1120. Email and Meeting Maker notices will be sent.

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