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.
