Micronet Calendar - Earlier Meetings & Events
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Earlier meetings & events
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Thursday, October 11, 2001 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall, a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall) Cliff Frost from CNS will discuss campus network news and problems, followed by CIO Jack McCredie's annual State of Campus computing address. SNS may participate as well, but we are awaiting confirmation from them.
Tuesday, September 18, 2001 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 60 Barrows (note new location for this meeting: not in Tan Hall) Microsoft's Mark Ciabattari, as well as (potentially) one or more campus speakers, will describe and answer questions regarding Microsoft's new licensing arrangements. As Bob Callaway has warned, there may be trouble ahead if we don't plan properly for MS licensing changes, and that actions based on the changes might be necessary as soon as September 21. See Bob's initial message and followup. In advance of each meeting we will solicit questions and topics for our speakers to address. Please consider this our first solicitation, and email Jon Johnsen with questions for Mark Ciabattari or campus speakers as soon as possible. Thanks.
Friday, May 25, 2001 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall, a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall) "Security." May's Micronet meeting will concern itself with the state of Security on this campus, what individuals and units can do to increase secruity and what direction the campus as a whole is moving in as related to security. If there are any specific lines of questioning you would like explored please send your questions to John Ives as soon as possible.
Thursday, April 26, 2001 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall, a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall) "Alternative Unix." A discussion coordinated by Michael Sinatra and John Ives of: - Unix (open-source and commercial) on intel - Unix (open-source and commercial) on Macintosh/PowerPC - Open-source Unix on traditionally commercial-Unix platforms (e.g. Linux/sparc & alpha, *BSD/sparc & alpha & ..., etc.) Michael plans to talk *briefly* about: - Open source software and the campus network - "Do something fun with that old SparcStation!" - License issues (GPL vs. BSD), if sufficient time & interest And Michael and John would like others to talk about: - Linux in general -- what's new/neat - Enterprise users For example, does your department provide Mac or Windows file & print services on an Alternative Unix plaform? (IIRC Housing & Dining was using Linux and samba, is this still true?) Are you using these platforms for anything that is mission-critical, production, or instructional in nature? - Darwin on Mac/PowerPC (we can also talk about MacOS X, but I think that will get ample coverage in future meetings/demos under the auspices of MagNet and our Apple reps.) Please send e-mail to Michael with your suggestions for additional topics, and whether you know of presenters for these topics.
Thursday, February 15, 2001 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall, a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall) Internet connection kit, departmental onsite support, network data backups Presentations by: - lST's Workstation Software Support Group on the campus's Internet connection kit, the Connecting at Berkeley CD (http://cab.berkeley.edu/), discussing current and future plans for the software and soliciting user feedback for the next version of the CD in Fall 2001. - IST's Departmental Onsite Computing Support (DOCS) (http://docs.berkeley.edu/), describing the group's services, which provide computing support to campus departments at their sites on a recharge basis. - IST's Departmental Technology Solutions (DTS), whose UC Backup service provides centralized workstation backup support for the UC Berkeley campus over the campus network. This service is available for PCs running Windows, Macintoshes, and many Unix workstations.
Thursday, November 16, 2000 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall, a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall) Support Solutions available on-campus and off: - A representative from Compucom (the California State Computer Store) will present support solutions they offer as well as demonstrating Ready (an automated utility for installing and migrating Windows and Windows applications, User data, Windows settings, and Application Configuration) and Break Fix. - Departmental Onsite Computing Support (DOCS) will discuss their services. - Dan Stone and his staff at the Workstation Hardware Support Group (WHSG) will discuss WHSG's Apple, Dell, HP and SupportPro services.
Thursday, October 26, 2000 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall, a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall) Associate Vice Chancellor Jack McCredie will be talking about the e-Berkeley initiative and the current status of IS&T, among other topics.
Wednesday, September 20, 2000 (Note: this meeting will be taking place on a Wednesday, rather than the traditional Micronet meeting day, Tuesday) 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall, a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall) Compensation In light of October's merit review process, the September Micronet meeting will deal with compensation. A couple of people from Human Resources will be on hand to discuss the review process as well as other issues dealing with pay increases and reclassifications. As the campus has historically lagged behind the private sector when it comes to IT salaries, we encourage you to attend this meeting so that we can all better understand the compensation process.
Tuesday, May 9, 2000 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall, a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall) Security Because we all need to worry about computer and network security, that will be the topic of May's Micronet meeting. The meeting is going to be divided into two sections of approximately equal lengths, a few mini-presentations concerning things happening around campus and a Question and Answer period. Scheduled to attend and present are Geoff Galitz, Mike Sinatra, John Broughton and George Lavender. Geoff Galitz will be discussing the basics of security (where attacks come from, etc.) plus some of the applications he is building for use in the College of Chemistry and around campus. Michael Sinatra will be discussing firewalls and how some departments are implementing them. John Broughton (Campus IS Security Analyst) and George Lavender (Interim Campus IS Security Officer) both are working part-time directly for Associate Vice Chancellor McCredie, Information Systems. They will report on implementing the recommendations of the 1998 ITATF Security Working Group (http://ita.berkeley.edu:4259/security/swg.report.html). They will discuss the progress in hiring a permanent Campus IS Security Officer, and talk about various campus-wide initiatives that are likely to impact departments in the next twelve months. They are very interested in comments and feedback from departments on these initiatives.
Tuesday, April 11, 2000 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (the top floor of this building, on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall) Vendor presentation by Quantum's Snap Server Division. Snap Servers are small network storage devices that can be used to either augment your existing server scheme or, in some cases, in lieu of traditional servers. You can find out more about Snap Servers at http://www.snapserver.com/product.html.
Tuesday, December 14, 1999 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (the top floor of this building, on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall) Presentations by both the campus Kerberos team and Web E-mail team. Additionally, there should be a very brief Q & A session with John Broughton to deal with any last minute Y2K questions you may have.
Tuesday, November 9, 1999 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (the top floor of this building, on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall) Networking Roundtable, featuring Cliff Frost of IST-Communication and Network Services (CNS), Tom Holub of Letters & Sciences-Computer Resources, and Ted Crum of Psychology.
Tuesday, October 12, 1999 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (the top floor of this building, on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall) Y2K: Panel discussion and Q&A on finding and resolving Y2K problems on personal computers and workstations. This will be the last Micronet Y2K session before the Year 2000, so be sure to bring along any questions you might have. (If your department has substantially completed its Y2K work and you are willing to share your experiences with other Micronet members by participating on this panel, please contact John Broughton.) LDAP: Presentation by the IST LDAP Project which will be developing an LDAP directory server for the Berkeley campus. LDAP (the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a standard directory services protocol that was defined by the Internet community. LDAP provides a mechanism to let users quickly and easily query directories of people and information. LDAP can also be used to provide directory services for various applications such as Corporate Time and Eudora. Topics that will be covered include: a. The structure and goals of the IST project team b. Benefits for the campus c. A description of LDAP, including data security features d. LDAP and Kerberos; authorization and authentication. You are encouraged to provide feedback on this upcoming service, both at this meeting and via the Project's Questionnaire.
Tuesday, September 21, 1999 10:00 am - 12:00 noon Section Club Room on the first floor of the Tang Center Associate Vice Chancellor Jack McCredie of Information Systems and Technology will discuss the current and future status/plans of IS&T. There should be plenty of time for Questions and Answers.
Friday, June 11, 1999 10:00 am - 12:00 noon Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall Special Micronet Session on Technical Issues with the Berkeley Financial System (BFS) Among the topics to be covered (per IST's Kenny Yip): 1. Review on BFS architecture and why Citrix 2. Review on pilots and steady counts on concurrent users and named users. 3. Profile of concurrent users snapshots. 4. Sample of problems we encountered: Deadlocks, number of indexes, database organization, SELECTs, CPU 5. Sample of consultations: IBM, PS, CNI (Citrix), Streamline (Citrix), Brian Holyrod. 6. Tuning efforts on problems and results. 7. Unexpected issues: Netbui, different domains for some, hard coded IP addresses, client installation, communication 8. BIRT Team: visits, worklist 9. Essential of Benchmark, definition of terms(e.g. response time, caching, lightning bolts, hour-glassing, system-down) , problem reporting detail. 10. A sample of how a printing problem was resolved. 11. How we can help you and how you can help us.
Tuesday, May 11, 1999 10:00 am - 12:00 noon Lipman Room, 8th Floor, Barrows Hall (just east of Sproul Hall) Take the West elevators to the 7th floor, then go East to the stairs to the 8th floor. The next Micronet meeting will be a follow-up to the Year-2000 meeting we had in December. John Ives, John Broughton, Kelly Haberer, and Aron Roberts (all members of subcommittees of the Campus Year 2000 Steering Committee) will be updating us on the work that committee has done and on what guidance is now available to campus departments to help resolve Y2K problems.
Tuesday, April 13, 1999 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 223 Moses Hall (Moses Hall is south of South Hall) Dorla Cantu (et al) will discuss Compensation and Benefits.
Tuesday, March 9, 1999 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (the top floor of this building, on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall) During our first hour, Kathleen Satz, Kenny Yip and possibly additional members of the Berkeley Administrative Initiatives (BAI) project will give a presentation on the rollout of the various BAI modules, discussing the timing and some of the technical issues involved. Following that, Gordon Adams of IST's Computer-assisted Survey Methods Program will be discussing the new Social Science Computing Lab in Barrows Hall. Then Karen Gibbons (Chancellors Office Info Sys) and Richard Henderson (Haas School of Business) will be presenting a report on the advantages and disadvantages of computer leasing. NOTE!!!: Due to time constraints, the meeting will likely start at 10am SHARP (not Berkeley time).
Tuesday, February 9, 1999 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (the top floor of this building, on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall) Laptop docking and dynamic IP address assignment issues. (George Kaplan of IST-Communication and Network Services [CNS].) Security Infrastructure project in Workstation Support Services (WSS). (Karl Grose of IST-WSS.) Micronet's co-coordinator Michael Sinatra wrote, in the original announcement: "In order to attend, you MUST RSVP to me directly with a suggestion for a future Micronet meeting. If your suggestion is chosen, you will be *guaranteed* a seat *at the table* in one of the *swivel* chairs!" "If your suggestion makes me laugh for more than 30 seconds, *you get a beer*!!!"
Tuesday, December 8, 1998 10:00 am - 12:00 noon (meeting to start promptly at 10:00 am) 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (the top floor of this building, on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall) Year 2000 (Y2K) Roundtable. Calendar maintainer's note: Three videotapes of this meeting can be borrowed for up to seven days -- for viewing at home or on campus -- from the circulation desk of the Engineering Library in Bechtel Hall. You can view the circulation status of the videotapes via the GLADIS library catalog by typing: F CA ENGI IS&T 18
Tuesday, November 17, 1998 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 223 Moses Hall Internet2, CalREN2, and the Enhanced (Tier2) Backbone -- new options for high-speed networking. (Ken Lindahl of IST-Communication and Network Services [CNS].) (Directions: Moses Hall is southwest of the campanile and directly west of Stephens Hall. Both Moses and Stephens are older beige buildings. If you enter from the north side of Moses, you are already on the second floor. Proceed straight back, through the glass door of room 215 Moses [Institute of International Studies] and continue straight back. Bear to your right and enter room 223.)
Tuesday, October 13, 1998 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (the top floor of this building, on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall) CorporateTime, a replacement for MeetingMaker. (Austin Shelton and Jeff McCullough of IST-Workstation Support Services [WSS].) Roundtable on Strategies for Using Ghost, "a powerful package that can be used to make exact copies of a computer's entire hard disk for replication across machines." (Myriam Godfrey, IST-Computer-assisted Survey Methods Program [CSM].)
Thursday, September 17, 1998 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm 223 Moses Hall Professor Calvin Moore on the Report of the Commission on Campus Computing. NOTE: 223 Moses allows food, so feel free to bring a bag lunch if you want. Please RSVP to Michael Sinatra.
Tuesday, September 8, 1998 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775 (A & B) Tan Hall (the top floor of this building, next to Latimer Hall) Our speaker will be Associate Vice Chancellor Jack McCredie, who will be discussing IS&T highlights from last year and upcoming priorities. Jack may also bring along other IS&T managers and directors to discuss issues pertaining to individual IS&T units. Please RSVP to Myriam Godfrey if you will be attending so that we can get an accurate headcount.
Tuesday, May 12, 1998 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775-A Tan Hall (the top floor of this building, next to Latimer Hall) SAFE Presentation (approx. 30 minutes) The SAFE Project Team will present the SAFE (Secure Access from Everywhere) software download service and ask for feedback and comments from Micronet. SAFE provides secure, authenticated UC Berkeley campus software download from anywhere on the Internet. As a member of the Berkeley campus community, you can download licensed software via your commercial Internet service provider (ISP), from off-campus sites, such as LBL, and from public access sites on-campus. For more information see: SAFE Overview http://software.berkeley.edu/about/ The BIS data warehouse (approx. 60 minutes) Sheri Tomlinson will talk to the Micronet members about the Berkeley Information System (BIS) and about data warehousing in general. We will also be introduced to some members of the BIS staff. If you have specific questions about BIS and/or data warehousing, you are invited to send them to Michael Stanley before the Tuesday meeting. He will consolidate them and send the consolidated questions to Sheri sometime Monday.
Tuesday, April 14, 1998 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775-A Tan Hall (the top floor of this building, next to Latimer Hall) Please RSVP to Jolene Adams if you plan to attend. The agenda for the meeting is: 1. A brief update from the Security Group John Broughton of IST will present -- and ask for your comments on -- the draft report of the Security Working Group of the Information Technology Architecture Task Force (ITATF). 2. Micronet On-Line Survey Michael Stanley and Mary Pezzuto will introduce their work on the web-based 1998 Micronet survey of members. 3. Update on Compensation Issues First, Betty Briggs-Marshall (UCB Employment Manager) will introduce Conrad Fernandes as the new campus technical recruiter. Dorla Cantu (UCB Compensation Manager), Yau-Man Chan and Urszula Frydman will discuss with us several new developments regarding compensation and classification for the Programmer/Analyst and Computing Resource Manager series. Yau-Man will talk a bit about career development and the skills needed for advancement within each of the series. Urszula will say something about the work to date of the new Committee on Classification of Technical Jobs and will talk to us about a new Job Analysis Questionnaire which is being developed to assist those making classification requests.
Tuesday, March 10, 1998 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775-A Tan Hall (the top floor of this building, next to Latimer Hall) Our speakers will be Jaqueline Craig and Karen Eft of IST's Information Technology Policy group. They will talk to us about their work crafting and promoting IST's computer use and abuse policies and procedures, as well as providing direct consultation to departmental computing managers and answering the campuswide abuse email hotline. To emphasis just how detrimental the use of computing technology to instigate trouble can be, they have promised to tell us a few anecdotes that have occurred on campus over the years. But then given yesterday's 'Denial of Service' attack on various Windows 95 and NT machines throughout campus, many of us now have direct understanding of the seriousness of the issue, one that often has little associated humor. This will be quite an interesting meeting. A URL for the meeting agenda can be found at <URL:http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7015/publicity/micronet.html>. There will be time for questions, so please feel free to bring them.
Tuesday, February 9, 1998 10:00 am - 12:00 noon, plus 'brown bag' opportunity for informal discussions from 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm 775-A Tan Hall (the top floor of this building, next to Latimer Hall) General Meeting Three speakers will discuss UCB information security: Michael Sinatra (College of Chemistry) will present a demonstration of typical campus network vulnerability, and will talk about SSH, one protocol being used on campus to address a subset of data security problems. George Lavender (IS&T) will discuss the progress of various campus committees charged with looking into security. Vance Vaughan (IS&T) will talk about intercampus initiatives and new technologies such as public key infrastructure (PKI). In addition, the meeting room is reserved until 1:00 pm to give us all a change to informally discuss these or other Micronet-related topics after the meeting. Bring a sack lunch and join us! Please RSVP to Jolene Adams so we can gauge the room size needed.
Tuesday, January 13, 1998 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775-A Tan Hall (the top floor of this building, next to Latimer Hall) General Meeting Jerry Berkman will present "UCLINK: What Next?" He will include: - Planned system upgrades - 8200 purchase + clustering software - Common user problems and consult questions - Recent changes including security - Spam (See <URL:http://www-uclink.berkeley.edu/spam> for more info on that.) - IMAP - problems & issues - Our current services - Account creation - Mailing lists - Web interfaces Please RSVP to Jolene Adams so we can gauge the room size needed.
Tuesday, October 14, 1997 10:00 am - 12:00 noon 775-A Tan Hall (the top floor of this building, next to Latimer Hall) General Meeting "Our speaker will be Larry Rowe from the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center. He will be talking about developing and deploying the infrastructures and technologies necessary to enable the use of digital video in research and education. Live Demo!!" Please RSVP to Jolene Adams.
Tuesday, September 9, 1997 10:15 am - 12:00 noon, 774-A Tan Hall (the top of this building) General Meeting "An update of the campus position on ... just about everything. Our speaker will be Vice Provost Jack McCredie. At the end of his talk he will welcome questions." "Surprise guests may appear (read, we have invited several other speakers of reknown but they haven't confirmed ..." "Refreshments will be served!" Please RSVP to Jolene Adams.
Tuesday, March 11, 1997 10:00 am - 12:00 noon, 775 Tan Hall ** Note new location: moved from 425 Latimer ** (new building, next to Latimer, at the campus' East Gate) General Meeting Dorla Cantu, Compensation Manager, will talk to us about the general compensation issues involving technical positions here at UC Berkeley. She will specifically delve into some of the recent changes made to the Programmer/Analyst salary structure that was implemented on March 1st.
Tuesday, February 11, 1997 Steering Committee Meeting All Micronet members are invited to help plan the group's upcoming meetings. RSVP to either Jolene Adams or Michael Stanley for time & place.
Tuesday, January 14, 1997 *No Meeting*
Tuesday, December 10, 1996 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm (*note change in time* for this mtg only), 223 Moses Hall "Room 223 is located on the first floor as you enter from the north side (the side facing the Campanile). Enter through the Institute for International Studies (glass door to room 215), go straight to the back conference room." ** Please RSVP to Michael Stanley if you will attend. Please also send any questions that you'd like Cliff to address to Michael. ** General meeting Cliff Frost, Acting Director of Data Communications and Network Services, will talk about the UCB Campus Network, its current status and future directions. He will be available to answer questions afterwards.
Tuesday, November 12, 1996 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2301 Tolman Hall General meeting Diana Brown, Director, Administrative Systems Department (ASD), will provide a BFS and HRMS update. She will address what ASD and IST (in general) are working on to support the implementation of the Berkeley Financial System and the Human Resources System.
Tuesday, October 15, 1996 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 425 Latimer (located near the East Gate) General meeting Discussion by Sherry Rogers, Central Computing Services, Information Systems & Technology, of Socrates, a high-end Sun server that will provide central UNIX services to the campus, and will eventually replace Garnet and Violet.
Tuesday, September 10, 1996 10:00 am - 10:55 am, 3110 Etcheverry General meeting Presentation by Jack McCredie, Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Systems & Technology.
Tuesday, June 11, 1996 10:00 am - 12:00 noon, 608-7 Evans General meeting Presentation of ergonomic keyboards for attendees to try out, and also possibly other ergonomic products Tuesday, May 14, 1996 10:00 am - 12:00 noon, 60 Evans General meeting "Get-to-know-you" meeting and open forum on system administrator job descriptions and classifications. Tuesday, April 9, 1996 10:00 am - 12:00 noon, 101 Morgan General meeting Office of Media Services staff will discuss video conferencing. Tuesday, March 12, 1996 10:00 am - 12:00 noon, 101 Morgan General meeting Tamara Sturak, manager of the WSSG UCLink team, on UCLink: Past, Present, and Future. Tuesday, February 13, 1996 10:00 am - 11:30 am, 101 Morgan General meeting Hal Varian, Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), will talk about the School's past, present, and future as well as what impact (and direction) the School's programs may have on the campus. Tuesday, January 9, 1996 10:00 am - 12:00 noon, 608-7 Evans (To be held in 262 Evans if 608-7 Evans isn't available) General meeting Design issues and the World-Wide Web. How to design great Web pages, including suggestions from attendees of "best practices" at existing Web sites. Tuesday, December 12, 1995 *No meeting* Tuesday, November 14, 1995 10:00 am - 12:00 noon, 155 Donner Lab General meeting Clifford Lynch, UCOP Director of Library Automation. Topic TBA--to be posted soon. (Possible topics may include infrastructure improvements, large database consortia, future impacts of information management on the way departments do business, and World-Wide Web-related issues.) Tuesday, September 12, 1995 10:00 am - 12:00 noon, 608-7 Evans Hall General meeting The Basic Computer Skills Training task force will report on the CalPACT Project. Tuesday, October 10, 1995 10:00 am - 12:00 noon, 608-7 Evans Hall General meeting Jack McCredie, Vice Provost of Information Systems & Technology, will discuss "The Next Five Years: Planning for Departmental Computer Support Needs." Tuesday, July 11, 1995 *No meeting* Tuesday, August 8, 1995 *No meeting* Tuesday, June 13, 1995 10:00 am - 12:00 noon, Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall General meeting Berkeley Financial System (BFS) update: Carolyn Smith and the core BFS project team will discuss the selection of PeopleSoft as the vendor for BFS and some implementation issues, and will be willing to answer any questions you may have. Tuesday, May 9 1995 *No meeting* Tuesday, April 11, 1995 10:00 am - 12:00 noon, Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall General meeting Bob Callaway and David Hall of Information Systems & Technology will discuss campus and systemwide software licensing issues. Issues to be discussed include: - Overview of the software licensing process - Volume licensing agreements-who, what, when, why, and how? - The contract review process - UC liabilities for software piracy - Vendors updates (Microsoft, Netscape, Sun ScholarPAC, WordPerfect, Borland, etc.) Tuesday, March 14, 1995 10:00 am - 12:00 noon, Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall General meeting Planning for natural disasters, backup services. Sarah Jones of Information Systems & Technology and others will cover this vital topic, including lessons learned from the Northridge (and now Kobe ...) earthquake. Tuesday, February 14, 1995 10:00 am - 12:00 noon, Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall General meeting Campus directions in remote and high-speed networking. Cliff Frost of Data Communication and Network Services will provide an uydate on modems, ISDN, ATM, and other technologies that are being used and/or investigated by the campus. Tuesday, January 10, 1995 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 1011 Evans Hall General meeting Physical security for computers. Mini-faire with vendor representation. Literature on data security products will also be provided. Tuesday, December 13 General meeting 1994 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 608-7 Evans Cancelled - will be rescheduled. Planned topic for this date: Members of the core project team for the Berkeley Financial System (BFS), led by Carolyn Smith, were to discuss the current status of the BFS Request For Proposal (RFP) for this system. Tuesday, November 15 General meeting 1994 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 639 Evans (NOTE: date changed from Tuesday, November 8 to avoid an event conflict) Using the World Wide Web to provide departmental information. Campus WWW server administrators will discuss their tools and techniques. Currently scheduled speakers include: Shuli Roth, Workstation Software Support Group Robert Guralnick, Museum of Paleontology Thomas O'Brien, Academic Achievement Division Pandelis Tiritas, Financial Aid Tuesday, October 11 General meeting 1994 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2326 Tolman (NOTE: new meeting location for Fall 1994) Presentation on MicroBEARS and the Berkeley Information System by Diana Brown of IS&T-Administrative Systems Department (ASD). Tuesday, September 13 General meeting 1994 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 639 Evans (NOTE: new location for this meeting only) Staff internships in the computing field at UC Berkeley. A presentation by Val Weller, Manager of the Staff Internship Program, followed by a panel discussion with Val and recent mentors and interns (some or all of the following:) Cliff Frost, Carl Gross, Saskia Lund, Laura Kim, and Sam Scalise. Thursday, July 28 Planning session meeting (all members are welcomed!) 1994 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm, 547 LSA (Note the changed time and date for this session only.) Help plan Micronet's Fall meetings! Tuesday, June 14 General meeting 1994 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Sam Scalise, Manager of Computer Resources in the College of Letters & Sciences Dean's Office, will discuss the L&S Administrative Computing Support Plan. As part of the implementation of this plan, Sam intends to implement common servers and administrative databases in each of the approximately 50 departments and units in L&S. Tuesday, May 10 General meeting 1994 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Members of the core project team for the Berkeley Financial System (BFS), headed by Carolyn Smith, will discuss the BFS Request For Proposal (RFP) requirements definition documents, as well as report on any progress made during the solicitation process under the RFP. Tuesday, April 13 General meeting 1994 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Jeff MacKie-Mason will present joint work with Hal Varian on "Data Networks and the Information Highway Revolution," including a discussion of funding for the Internet. Tuesday, March 9 General meeting 1994 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Anita Joplin from the Academic Planning Board will discuss directions in the development of new administrative and financial systems for the campus. This will also be a feedback opportunity for Micronet members. Tuesday, Feb 8 General meeting 1994 10:00 am - 11:45 am, (location to be arranged) First half of meeting: Ron Banister will talk about the services that his department offers to members of the campus community doing desktop publishing. Second half of meeting: Working session on the Micronet documentation exchange project, in which members will exchange their home-grown documentation via Gopher & FTP. Tuesday, Jan 11 General meeting 1994 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 142 Dwinelle (*note location!*) Focus on departmental training: ideas, questions, solutions. Please bring your departmental training materials on paper, disk, or (preferably) both! Tuesday, Dec 14 General meeting 1993 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman (*note location!*) First half of meeting: Curtis Hardyck will talk about the Pacific Rim Neighborhood Project. Second half of meeting: Attendees at the SIGUCCS User Services Conference in San Diego will discuss the highlights of the conference. Tuesday, Nov 23 Planning session meeting (all members are welcomed!) 1993 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, location to be arranged Tuesday, Nov 9 General meeting 1993 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 117 Dwinelle Demonstrations of multiplatform (MS-Windows & Macintosh) database programs from Blyth Software (Omnis 7) and Claris Corporation (FileMaker Pro). Tuesday, Oct 26 Planning session meeting (all members are welcomed!) 1993 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, location to be arranged Tuesday, Oct 12 General meeting 1993 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 117 Dwinelle Cliff Frost of Data Communication and Network Services will discuss the present and future of the Campus Network Tuesday, Sep 28 Planning session meeting (all members are welcomed!) 1993 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, location to be arranged Tuesday, Sep 14 General meeting 1993 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 117 Dwinelle (*note location!*) Dan Stone of the Workstation Hardware Support Group will lead a workshop on troubleshooting hardware problems with IBM PC-compatible computers and HP LaserJet printers. Tuesday, Aug 24 (No planning session in August) 1993 Tuesday, Aug 10 (No general meeting in August) 1993 Tuesday, Jul 27 Planning session meeting (all members are welcomed!) 1993 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, 547 LSA (Life Sciences Annex) Tuesday, Jul 13 (No general meeting in July) 1993 Tuesday, Jun 22 (No planning session in June) 1993 Tuesday, Jun 8 General meeting 1993 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall First half of meeting: Dan Stone of the Workstation Hardware Support Group will ask for suggestions on what should be covered in a future PC Troubleshooting workshop. Second half of meeting: Discussion of issues and concerns relating to The Scholar's Workstation (TSW) store. Tuesday, May 25 Planning session meeting (open to all members) 1993 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Pat Brown's Grille (near GPBB) Tuesday, May 11 Combined general meeting & steering committee meeting 1993 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall Nominations for Micronet offices and "proposals for more structure in Micronet," as well as discussion of topics such as UCLink passwords and computer thefts that were recently discussed on the Micronet mailing list. Tuesday, April 27 Steering committee meeting (open to all members) 1993 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Musical Offering cafe, 2430 Bancroft Tuesday, April 13 General meeting 1993 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall Staff of the Museum Informatics Project (MIP) of IS&T will show the visual image query applications they have developed for accessing slide libraries, archeology collections, etc. over the Internet. During the second half of the meeting, representatives of Apple Computer, Inc. will give a presentation on how data in centralized campus databases on some campuses has been made much more readily and easily accessible via "data warehousing" and front-ends to SQL databases. Tuesday, March 23 Steering committee meeting (open to all members) 1993 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Musical Offering cafe, 2430 Bancroft Tuesday, March 9 General meeting 1993 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 205 South Hall (*note location!*) Saskia Lund of SLIS and Aron Roberts of WSSG will discuss some widely available methods--list servers, Gopher, and FTP--for finding and obtaining information and software via the worldwide Internet. This talk is oriented toward those who are new to the use of Internet information resources. Tuesday, February 23 Steering committee meeting (open to all members) 1993 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Musical Offering cafe, 2430 Bancroft Discuss and plan presentations for upcoming Micronet general meetings. Tuesday, February 9 General meeting 1993 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall Workshop on maintaining and identifying hardware problems with your Macintosh CPUs and printers, led by manager Dan Stone & technician Larry Clark of the Workstation Hardware Support Group. Tuesday, January 26 Steering committee meeting (open to all members) 1993 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Musical Offering cafe, 2430 Bancroft Discuss and plan presentations for the Micronet general meetings from February through May 1993. Tuesday, January 12 General meeting 1993 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall Discussion led by Dan Stone of the Workstation Hardware Support Group on what Micronet members would like to see in a hardware maintenance/ troubleshooting/repair workshop. Tuesday, December 8 General meeting 1992 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall Discussion and work sessions regarding the Administrative Computing Task Force and the Micronet Gopher information server. Tuesday, November 24 Steering committee meeting (open to all members) 1992 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Musical Offering cafe, 2430 Bancroft Discussion of topics for forthcoming meetings and events. Tuesday, November 10 General meeting 1992 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall Jack McCredie, the new Vice Provost of Information Systems & Technology, will join Micronet members in a discussion of distributed computing issues at UCB, including academic and administrative concerns. Tuesday, October 13 General meeting 1992 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall Yau-Man Chan of the College of Chemistry will lead a general discussion of issues, strategies, and problems faced by those who support administrative computing in campus departments. Tuesday, September 22 Steering committee meeting (open to all members) 1992 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Musical Offering cafe, 2430 Bancroft Discussion of topics for forthcoming meetings and events. Tuesday, September 8 General meeting 1992 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall Dan Stone, the new manager of the Workstation Hardware Support Group, will present an Open Forum on Hardware Support. He will discuss opportunities in the areas of service turn-around time, end-user contact/callback, quality of service, service rates, and future service, and will distribute a service survey for departments to complete. Time will be provided for other topics of importance. Tuesday, August 25 Steering committee meeting (open to all members) 1992 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Musical Offering cafe, 2430 Bancroft Discussion of topics for forthcoming meetings Tuesday, August 4 General meeting 1991 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman (cancelled) Tuesday, July 28 Steering committee meeting 1992 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Musical Offering cafe, 2430 Bancroft Discussion of topics for forthcoming meetings Tuesday, July 14 General meeting 1991 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman (cancelled) Tuesday, June 9 General meeting 1992 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall Peter Lin from Facilities Management and Nad Permaul from the Office of Emergency Preparedness will lead a discussion of the status of the campus emergency notification system. Tuesday, May 12 General meeting 1992 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall General discussion of computing at UC Berkeley. Tuesday, April 14 General meeting 1992 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall Mike Brown of the Library will show his custom lockdown units that fit tightly around workstation system units without defacing them in any way. Workstation Software Support Group staff will give a presentation on sources of Macintosh software (including a navigational tour of the Cornucopia AppleShare file server) and ways of finding information on Macintosh problems and products. Tuesday, March 10 General meeting 1992 Cancelled (due to inability of off-campus speakers to attend on this date). Tuesday, February 25 Steering committee meeting 1992 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Musical Offering cafe, 2430 Bancroft Discussion of topics for forthcoming meetings and of how to modify the Micronet Training Fair. Tuesday, February 11 General meeting 1992 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall Discussions by Don Nicodemus of computing-related ergonomic and energy issues, followed by a review of the January Training Fair and sharing of ideas for future Micronet training activities. Tuesday, January 7 to Micronet Training Fair Thursday, January 16 (12 different classes were held in 110 Latimer 1992 and 262 Evans for MS-DOS and Macintosh users) (various dates) Tuesday, December 3 Organizational meeting for training fair 1991 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, 205 South Hall Tuesday, November 12 General meeting 1991 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall A brief discussion of STOP identification tags for computer equipment by David Hernes of Mathematics and Deborah Schenk of the Crime Prevention unit, followed by planning for the training fair in January 1992. Tuesday, October 22 Steering committee meeting 1991 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Musical Offering cafe, 2430 Bancroft Discussion of the two topics for the November meeting: (1) preparation of the January teaching fair, and (2) STOP identification tags as alternative to engraving computer equipment. Tuesday, October 8 General meeting 1991 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall Yau-Man Chan of Chemistry will give a presentation on power programming techniques in generic database applications. Tuesday, September 10 General meeting 1991 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall Susan Mathews and Greg Small, Workstation Software Support Group and Jim Allison, Network Hardware Support Group will present an overview of campus PC networking, and Yau-Man Chan of Chemistry will discuss issues related to Novell NetWare. Tuesday, August 13 General meeting 1991 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Hall Russell Dastrup of WordPerfect Corporation will present WordPerfect for Windows, and discuss the use of WordPerfect across multiple platforms-- MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX. Tuesday, July 23 Steering committee meeting 1991 3:30 pm, at the Musical Offering cafe, 2430 Bancroft Planning for future meetings. Tuesday, July 9 General meeting 1991 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 1650 Tolman Hall Sharon McConnell from campus Risk Management will discuss insurance issues and pass out some handouts on this topic. Then Kurt Knierim of Digital Research will give a presentation on DR DOS 5 and compare this operating system for IBM PCs and compatibles with Microsoft's MS-DOS 5.0. Tuesday, June 25 Steering committee meeting 1991 3:30 pm, at the Musical Offering cafe, 2430 Bancroft Planning for future meetings. Tuesday, June 11 General meeting 1991 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 3635 Tolman Hall Update on computer security and insurance issues with Officers Torres and McAllaster of the campus Police, who are responsible for Operation UCB-ID. Tuesday, May 21 Steering committee meeting 1991 3:00 pm, at the Musical Offering on Bancroft Planning for future meetings. Tuesday, May 14 General meeting 1991 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 3635 Tolman Hall Presentation on Macintosh System 7.0 by John Parenica of Apple Computer. Tuesday, April 23 Steering committee meeting 1991 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, 205 South Hall To formalize (just a little) the organization and administration of Micronet, including, but not limited to, the selection process of the Micronet coordinator. Tuesday, April 9 General meeting 1991 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 3635 Tolman Hall Presentation on workstation support programs and IST organization by Jerome Smith, Director, Workstation Support Services. Tuesday, March 12 General meeting 1991 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 205 South Hall Explanation of new campus insurance and security policies (BUS-28 & 71) by Diana Spaniol from Risk Management, UC Office of the President. Other speakers may be present to discuss crime prevention and workstation ergonomics (to be arranged). Tuesday, February 26 Steering Committee meeting 1991 10:00 am - 11:00 am, Addison Annex Cafe Planning for March and April meetings. Tuesday, February 12 General meeting 1991 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman (cancelled due to illness of planned speaker) Friday, January 11 to Friday, January 18, 1991 Micronet Training Fair (14 different classes were offered for MS-DOS and Macintosh users.) Monday, December 10 General meeting 1990 10:00 am - noon, 103 Genetics & Plant Biology Bldg. Multiuser and client/server database solutions, featuring demonstrations and discussions by Sybase and ACIUS (4th Dimension) representatives. Tuesday, November 13 General meeting 1990 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Discussion of on- and off-campus training options and opportunities. Tuesday, October 9 General meeting 1990 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Demonstration of dBASE IV 1.1 by Ashton-Tate representatives. Wednesday, September 12 Network SIG meeting 1990 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 170 Wurster Lecture and demonstration of the Banyan Network System. (Replaced general meeting for September.) Tuesday, August 14 General meeting 1990 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 2515 Tolman Tuesday, July 10 General meeting 1990 10:00 am - 11:45 am, 433 Latimer Presentation by Yau-Man Chan, College of Chemistry on strategies for dealing with large and/or multiuser network databases. Tuesday, June 12 General meeting 1990 10 am - 12 noon, 2515 Tolman A discussion of microcomputer virus experiences and strategies. Wednesday, May 23 Network SIG meeting 1990 10 am - 12 noon, 1000 Wurster Macintosh network integration.
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