Minimum Workstation and Software Site License Subcommittee Minutes

 

September 15, 2005
Meeting in ENS292 at 10 a.m.
Diana Osborn, Chair

ZoomText
Mary Shojai, John Ross, and Cyndi Chie met to consider a campus site license for ZoomText, as Windows XP's options do not provide equivalent access. For example - Windows XP does not enlarge buttons to the same degree. A decision to go with a campus site license would benefit faculty and staff, as well as students in more departments. John Ross has indicated that Academic Affairs would buy the product and then chargeback to the participating departments. He is working out the details with the Vice Presidents. Severino Reyes will be joining the committee. A site license versus volume purchasing will be considered.

NewHorizons Training vouchers
Greta Borie of NewHorizons contacted SDSU to see what interest there is to purchase a 100 or more training coupons. If you are interested in a consolidated purchase of coupons, please send an email to Diana Osborn. Diana will also check with Vortex to see what training is available.

SPSS license codes
Celia Chavez announced that the SPSS license codes were distributed yesterday to the college contacts. These new codes now turn on all of the optional features that SDSU has paid for. Most of the SPSS versions in use have a 90 day grace period to renew the license code with the exception of Windows v13 which is 30 days. Celia has complained about a different grace periods to the vendor and the Chancellor's Office. A question posed - Could we move the dates for the codes to coinside better with the start of semester? Celia will look into this. It was mentioned that Michael Paschke has a script for installing the license in a lab environment.

When version 14 arrives later this fall, there will be testing done on it. If it proves to be no better than version 13, we may not go to it.

AMP program
Celia Chavez stated that the number of computers on the AMP program increased from 1102 to 1583. She also said Apple points to SDSU as a success story for keeping on top of licenses.

Softricity SoftGrid
Softricity SoftGrid wants to do a demo at SDSU of their product. If you are interested, please send email to Diana Osborn.

Software Survey
Diana reminded all that the 2005 update of the Softwware Survey needs to be done by September 30th. Please send her information on any software missing from the survey that needs to be added and copy the email to Cyndi Chie and David Oehl.

Minimum Workstation subcommittee
Don McKee is planning on having the updates to Carol Phillips by the next meeting in October.

Enterprise level accessibility/usability checkers
Cnydi Chie said the Campus Web committee is looking at web sites on campus with regard to look and feel, as well as accessibility and usability issues. The committee is looking at tools/resources, server/technologies, search appliances, usage stat metrix, web content management systems, description searchs, and map systems that can improve our web environments and wants MWSSLS members to participate in the process. Email Cyndi Chie and Happy Aston, if you are interested in a sub-sub-committee that would make recommendations to other committees like security, accessibility, etc.

Macromedia negotiations
Carol Tohsaku has sent out the Macromedia Survey. Carol reminded all that she needs the survey completed and back to her today, as the campus needs to give the information to the Chancellor's Office by Monday. John Ross is our contact for the negotiations, which needs 100% commitment from all 23 campuses.

Announcement
Celia reminded all about the McAfee webcast next Tuesday - September 27th.

Next MWSSLS meeting will be on October 20, 2005 at 10 a.m. in AH-1120.

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