School IT meetings

Introduction

Members of the IT staff across the school meet usually on the second Wednesday of every month at 10am to discuss a pre-arranged topic. The meetings are organised by Marc. The meetings aim to share useful information, while also keeping the school IT staff in touch with one another. The usual attendees are:

  • Andy Heaps (Meteorology)
  • Dale Cunningham (Meteorology)
  • Dan Bretherton (Meteorology)
  • Dave Mills (SSC)
  • Marc Stringer (Meteorology)
  • Neil Blanchonnet (Meteorology)
  • Pawel Stasiak (Mathematics)
  • Pete Sweby (Mathematics)
  • Sheila Bryant (Meteorology)

      • Former members are

      • Gary Robinson (Meteorology)
      • Ian Dale (SSC)

      Upcoming meetings

      The upcoming meetings are:

      DateVenueTopic
      ? December?

      Potential other topics are:

      • Services provided by ITS, and what we do and might use
      • Met/ESSC merger
      • School (rather than Met/ESSC) integration - what could we integrate?
      • More on security (didn't cover Windows last time)
      • VM software

          • Past meetings

          Past meetings have been

          DateVenueTopicAttendees
          25 September 2013Meteorology 1L36 Meet Dave and Tier 2 storage Andy, Dale, Dan, Dave, Marc, Neil, Pawel and Sheila
          8 May 2013Meteorology 1L36 Clusters and offsite data transfer Andy, Dale, Dan, Marc, Neil, Pawel and Sheila
          13 March 2013Meteorology 1L36 Compilers we support Andy, Dale, Dan, Marc, Neil, Pawel and Sheila
          13 February 2013Meteorology 1L36 Compilers we support CANCELLED (several members could only make the start, informed at late notice)
          14 November 2012Meteorology 1L36 School 3 year IT plan Andy, Dale, Dan, Marc, Neil, Pawel and Sheila
          19 September 2012ESSC conference room Choice of default unix shell Andy, Dale, Dan, Marc, Neil and Sheila
          8 August 2012Meteorology 1L36 SCCM windows management (CANCELLED, topic unavialable at late notice)
          13 June 2012Meteorology 1L36 The potential big computer in Met (Jasmin) Andy, Dale, Dan, Marc, Neil and Pawel
          9 May 2012Meteorology 1L36 Main meeting on `The potential big computer in Met' CANCELLED. A smaller meeting on power cut experiences and UPSs Andy, Dan and Marc
          11 April 2012Meteorology 1L36Power cut experiences Gary, Ian, Marc, Neil and Sheila
          14 March 2012Meteorology 1L43Web pages (tools etc) Andy, Dale, Dan, Ian, Marc, Pawel and Sheila
          8 February 2012Meteorology 1L43Software we support Andy, Dale, Dan, Gary, Ian, Marc, Neil, Pawel and Sheila
          18 January 2012Meteorology 1L43 Met/ESSC merger: network issues and home directory migration Dale, Dan, Gary, Marc and Neil
          7 December 2011Sizzling SpiceChristmas dinner Andy, Dale, Dan, Ian, Marc, Neil, Pawel and Sheila
          16 November 2011Meteorology 1L36 Update on Video conferencing options and Cloud storeage Dale, Dan, Gary, Ian, Marc, Neil, Pawel and Sheila
          12 October 2011 ESSC seminar (video conference) room/conference room Test video conferencing, maybe external storage of data (i.e. on a cloud) Andy, Dale, Dan, Ian, Marc, Neil, Pawel and Sheila
          21 September 2011Meteorology 1L36Video conferencing Dale, Dan, Ian, Marc, Neil, Pawel and Sheila
          10 August 2011Meteorology 1L36 Experience of suppliers Dale, Dan, Gary, Ian, Marc, Neil, Pawel and Sheila
          13 July 2011Meteorology 1L43 Security: ssh access, web servers, hacking Andy, Dale, Dan, Gary, Marc, Neil and Sheila
          8 June 2011Meteorology 1L43 Webpages, calenders, doodle, DSEasy ... Andy, Dale, Dan, Gary, Ian, Marc, Neil, Pawel and Sheila
          11 May 2011Meteorology 1L36Audit Andy, Dale, Dan, Gary, Ian, Marc, Neil, Pawel and Sheila
          13 April 2011Meteorology 1L36FleSSR Andy, Dale, Dan, Gary, Marc, Neil, Pawel, Pete and Sheila
          9 March 2011Meteorology 1L36Laptops, data security for laptops Andy, Dale, Dan, Gary, Marc, Neil, Pawel, Pete and Sheila
          9 February 2011ESSC meeting roomDesktops Andy, Dan, Gary, Ian, Marc, Neil, Pawel and Sheila
          19 January 2011Meteorology 1L36 Back-ups/security Andy, Dale, Dan, Marc, Neil, Pawel and Sheila
          8 December 2010ESSC meeting room Clusters Andy, Dan, Gary, Marc, Neil and Pawel
          10 November 2010Meteorology coffee room Summary of each department's computing Andy, Dan, Gary, Marc, Neil, Pawel and Sheila

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