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Updates

Google Apps for Education Enterprise

The GAEE was rolled out to students in March, but it won't be available to staff and faculty for some time yet. There have been some specific exceptions, but in general we are asking folks to wait until OIT has resolved some significant issues regarding the movement from Groupwise to Google Apps.

LAMP

The LAMP project is generally on track, for the Assessment. We now have an assessment machine installed and configured. David Broderick and Skip Knox will test move a selection of sites in order to evaluate the process and to document the difficulties. Skip listed some of the main issues (see below) and told the group that Web Services is soliciting discussion from the community on these.

LAMP Discussion

Known Issues

  1. Orphan files
  2. case sensitivity
  3. spaces and punctuation in file names
  4. SSI instructions—no space between hypen and octothorpe (#)
  5. ASP -> PHP
  6. FrontPage bots

Skip has posted some, but to date not all, of these issues to the discussion forum. He invites everyone in the user community to read the discussion and to contribute to it. This move is not something that OIT can effect by itself; it's going to take the entire community working together, and that includes users helping one another with ideas, tips and information.

The discussion forum is at this address:

You will land on a login screen, unless you've been there before. I've set up most people with an account, but not everyone. I used first initial+lastname for the user name, and firstname as password. You can change the password after you have logged in, if you wish. If you have difficulty with getting logged in, contact Skip Knox via email.

I want to emphasize the importance of this discussion. You have an opportunity to help shape the nature of the move to the LAMP environment. The community needs your input!

Policy and Direction

These are all significant issues. The details are in the forum.

PHP Development Platform

The server cayusecreek is the production server for the handful of PHP applications we currently have. The development server is websandbox.boisestate.edu.

User News

We sort of ran out of time.

We did agree, however, to meet more frequently during this LAMP project. Skip will set up a late July / early August meeting and will likely add one more meeting during the fall semester.

Survey

The paper survey Skip distributed will eventually (weeks) be turned into a database. Once that's in place, Skip will write an online survey form. The survey was to begin a process whereby Web Services knows more about the user community and can start to track who runs which websites, what tools are being used on those sites, etc.