March 14, 2008 Minutes
Information Technology
MEETING MINUTES
Friday, March 14, 2008
1:00 pm T-5
Members Present: Adrian Agundez, Dave Berry, Mimi Collins, Rick Garcia, Val Garcia, Mark Gibson, Brian Jean, Brock McMurray, Chad Mickelberry, Tiffany Rowden, Henry Yong.
Recorder: Michaela Young
Meeting start: 2:10 p.m.
Agenda: Tech Update
E-mail for the future
First Class
Luminis e-mail
What are the criteria Updates
- Dorm wireless completed
- Board approved ACS improvement (device manager) – wireless zones on campus
- Dorm wireless in Library; new equipment should be delivered in May
- All new desktops in Library for students
- “TouchNet” payment gateway is in progress; eventually students will be able to pay on-line.
- Plans to include other areas of the campus (bookstore) for online pay in the future.
- On-going progress with Banner projects still positive, but a lot of hard work.
E-Mail for the Future of TC
Review of First Class:
- Tiffany likes to see history information if recipient of e-mail ( reads, saves or deletes)
- Option to have client and web-based in First Class is good – web-based e-mail is important when you are on the road
- Need to keep conferences to be able to post announcements to everyone, with the ability to restrict some of the conferences by limiting contributors
- Ricardo Garcia presented Luminis Portal, Mail and Calendaring:
- A positive aspect is unlimited number of accounts making it more cost effective. Luminis, like other web-based e-mails has calendar, scheduling, and ability to invite other users.
- Val Garcia noted the district would probably still keep SARS, as it has more options (e.g. notes, etc.)
- Ricardo mentioned Luminis still has lots of errors, will probably be used primarily for students
- Ricardo pointed out that Chad had created Help-videos for Luminis and everyone should find them very useful in instructing the user how to navigate.
- Adrian mentioned that Luminis is a living product and we can make adjustments as we go.
- Ricardo showed how the layout can be customized by the user – some things will be fixed, however.
Create Criteria of what we want:
- POP3 cost-effective; gives users option of client
- Many want mobile phone continuity
- Web based email has to be reliable, and easy to use
- Want to see off-line browsing, PDA’s, web-based e-mail, open-sourced might be reasonable for us.
(definition of “open-source”: open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit); disadvantage is that it does not come with support – have to use forums or buy support packages.
Research What is Out There:
- Mark will create a list of features that Adrian will publish to the school asking them to rate the most to least important features.
Discussion on Quicktime versus WindowsMedia at next meeting.
Next Meeting
The next IT Committee meeting will be Friday, April 18, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. in T6.
Adjournment Meeting was adjourned at 2:45 p.m.