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January 12, 2007

Second Meeting

We met on January 12, 2007.

Present: Matt Engel, Mike Richwalsky, Jason Ramsey, Susan Fenton

We reviewed material from the blog and talked about Sharepoint. There was interest in seeing an demo and we agreed to ask Phil to arrange this. We also discussed getting demos of Zoho and the newest Meeting Maker running.

Mike talked about the Mozilla suite, including the new Eudora/Thunderbird blend. They have a calendar but it's not robust (Sunbird) and another more robust calendar (Lightening). We discussed the current calendars on campus, Meeting Maker and WebCalendar.

Matt asked about portals/single sign-ons.

It was agreed the group's official name - for now - would be No Name Group.

Posted by Susan Fenton at 8:10 AM | | Comments (0)

December 12, 2006

First Meeting

We had the first meeting of our group today. We discussed what it is the group should do and what types of products to look at. We came up with a starter list of products and services:

  • Google
  • MS Exchange (outlook)
  • MS Terminal Services
  • Samba
  • Document Management Systems (Hummingbird, OpenDocs)

We decided to look around for services that would integrate Email, File Sharing, and Calendaring, preferably through a web interface. If, along the way, we find products that do other cool features, or cool products that just do one or two of these things, we'll take a closer look at those, too. For the next meeting we are going to bring some names and info on some of the products we think should be considered further.

It was mentioned that a prime consideration of any product should be how well it integrates with current products on campus and/or how well it may integrate with future products, like a portal. The question of whether we should look at products with only employees in mind or whether we should also consider student needs came up, but no decision was made.

We also briefly discussed a name for the group. No name was chosen.

Due to the break and travel schedules, and the need for time to do some research, next meeting will be Friday Jan 12, 2007 at 8:30 am in the CC. In the meantime, feel free to post to the blog if you find a product or article that you think is relevant to the group.

Posted by Susan Fenton at 1:28 PM | | Comments (1)