Well today, in lieu of either a OUR or UCS staff meeting, we had a 5th Site meeting. This meeting included many delegates from OSU, OUS, as well as many of the WOU UCS staff and other WOU superstars (VP’s, Directors, etc…). It was a Long meeting, but a good one.
Topics included Banner upgrade information (past and future), Web Best Practices, OSU OSL, and some OSU/OUS network information. Overall, very useful information. Some of the nuances and detailed information was relatively unrelated to my area, but nearly all of it was interesting.
I thought I’d give a small rundown on each of the 4 topics:
As I’ve never actually used Banner, nor do I have a login, I thought this portion of the meeting would be non-understandable, boring and useless. It was non of the above. Besides the painful cost of trees, I came to understand the new scheme to merge the different Banner databases (SIS, FIS & HR) of each OUS campus. To my best understanding OSU has already completed this little jaunt. For the most part it had little to do with me, so I shall move on.
Web Best Practices was interesting, enlightening and provided us with a link to the OSU best practices site. I have yet to read the information there, but am relatively convinced I’ll be changing some of my personal and professional web development practices.
I was very pleased with the discussion led by Scott Kveton about the OSU OSL. I’d heard alot about the Open Source Lab, from Chris White (OSU). During this discussion, a major point of conversation was Redwolf, and it’s relation to Open Source programming. I don’t want to sound proud, or boast, but I’m glad we have something that we can share with the world.
Lastly, we discussed network infrastructure, Internet2, large network issues/concerns – and how we might further collaborate/learn from each other in our little OUS world.
It was a good meeting, with a pleasant lunch. It got all of our wheels spining. We went back to ITC008, and discussed… (please see next blog)