To: nschmidt@MIT.EDU, tjm@MIT.EDU, ganderso@MIT.EDU, vkumar@MIT.EDU
Cc: mbarker@MIT.EDU
Subject: my notes from ACMG
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 17:01:42 EST
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>


These are fairly random notes, but they might help...

Pieces of the "Reference Architecture"

1.  Browser
	local pages
	plugins
	java
	javascript
	may have programs invoke it (e.g. via htmlview)
2.  Certificate server
3.  Server(s)
	pages
	cgi - behind which are services, such as db, conferencing
		software, [turnin/pickup], etc.
4.  html editors/producters
5.  site organization programs

Attending: tom, pbh, jjv, jweiss, kcunning, rar, jives, tjm, scott,
ccounter, katiel, jdb, mjv, mike barrow, ganderso, lisanti, azary,
tytso, vkumar, nschmidt, smyser, thorne, wade, barbara

Reasons for the project:

1.  Lots of homegrown activity, needs help
2.  Always multiple involvement--how avoid conflicts, lack of help

katiel/Public/ett.html

Incentives

1.  What does IS do best?
2.  Time issues - when to act?
3.  Increase recognition of doing the right thing
4.  Influence: ourselves as best practices; others because we can't do
it for them.
5.  Get out front with expectations
6.  Set up a slippery slope in the right direction

Change Management

1.  How to move from prototype to production quality?
2.  What are service/support roles?
3.  Publishing/Teaching interaction
4.  What are the ramifications of publishing course content on the
web?

Consistent, Reliable services

IS 1. provide infrastructure
   2.  certificates
   3.  make it cheaper for others to do it our way
   4.  basic educational technology and ability to add to it
       web analogy to Athena

IT 1. work with core providers to establish common services

Cust 1. what edu services need to link?
     2. things to put content into

Partnerships with customers

Who: ODSWE, lib, pub, pres, sloan, CAES

Sponsors: Who?  Provost $$ to route through policies and procedures

Using Tech in classroom/eclassroom
  using tech in course
  training
  who else can help

ID Functionalities

What: web, not unix, calendar, graphics, common interfaces

Partnerships with vendors

1. Development tools (integration)
2. Influence contractors, vendors, providers
3. suite of tools, integrated into our environment
4. recognize vendor/customer political relationships may not be good
for IS

Staff

1.  readiness group (the flying firefighters!)
2.  tell community what is ok/ng
3.  what are standards?
4.  how to tell people what are standards?
5.  time/people resources to make it happen
6.  be responsive when we hear about opportunities
7.  understand price of firefighting

Policies, procedures and standards

1. Quality of services
2. What standards exist, do we...
3. katiel url
4. DB servers certificates
5. pub standards/provide training
6. FERPA/SI policies
7. persistence of environment to preserve content
8. intellectual property

Effective use of resources

1.  How to make it work on an enterprise wide scale?
2.  establish boundaries for local implementation (sandbox)
3.  understand true costs of work
4.  licensing effectiveness
5.  articulate services well enough to be used
6.  Pareto chart for functionality: what are we hearing?

Some random notes I took:

Set expectations, golden bridge to desired stuff, make the blocks to
the wrong stuff really obvious...

Desires: easy web pages, no unix, graphics, calendering,
turnin/pickup, conferencing

There seems to be a split between providing "integrated" or basic
services and developing standards...